Using some free stuff to create a wallpaper
Last week, I had some free time while waiting for some layouts to be approved, so I thought that it was a great time to test some free stuff that I had gotten and never used before. As everybody knows there are tons of free icons, textures, clip arts and stuff like that on line, and every time that I find something I automatically download it, what makes my computer's desktop a mess.
Anyway, with a lot of brushes, textures and icons, I started to create my abduzeedo's wallpaper. The idea was pretty simple a collage of elements such as icons and brushes with a light beam coming from the sky as a UFO was abducting somebody.
I started using a wooden texture and a gradient color to give it a bit of depth.
Firstly I used a wooden texture with a gradient overlay
After that I basically put some elements like a building with a woman, a crazy dude with a mask, an little deer on the top of the building.
Started messing around
The next thing that I did was pretty simple, I mirrored the elements, and aligned them in the center of the page.
Same elemets, duplicated and reflected
The image needed more elements, I put a rainbow behind the towers, added some more elements like those balloons over the girl, those tribal elements behind the buildings, everything downloaded and free.
Spice it up a little bit
The abduction laser bean was created and, basically, it's a gradient mesh with the hard light blend effect.
The abduction part 1
To give more the idea of abduction, I put an illustration of myself behind the laser with a motion blur effect, so it looks like Im being abducted.
The abduction part 2
At last but not least I added another illustration in the middle of the page, with some green branches behind it.
The final result, really simple and fun.
The whole image is nothing else than just a bunch of free stuff that can easily be found on the web. Anyhow, below there are some of the sites that I visited to get the elements I used on that wallpaper.
Brushes
http://gfxworld.org/web_templates/hi_res_tattoo_brush.html
http://www.misprintedtype.com/v3/goodies.php
http://www.psbrushes.net/index.php
J3Cons.07 Updated (icons)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45651910/
More Icons
http://gfxworld.org/icons/
http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/icons/dock/
http://www.kde-look.org/
Textures and Patterns
http://44suburbia.org/
http://www.theinspirationgallery.com/
http://www.kavewall.com/stock/index.html
Podcast
http://www.revision3.com/pixelperfect
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About author
My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through abduzeedo.
damn, what a big bunch of spam -.-'
nevertheless, nice tut!
btw, that crazy guy with the mask kinda looks like a member of daft punk ;)
Excellent tutorial, Thank you.
Very cool art work, I like it because it's is fun to look at. I don't use wallpaper. I like to keep my computer's bytes to a minimum to increase all chances of having a fast computer, to work efficiently.
Thanks for the free resources!
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like the beam me up scotty, like your being abducted. ;)
i like the wallpapers being shown here
but can you show us more of your work
Nice tutorial thanks, particularly like how you stepped through to show the less experienced artist how to attack this subject. Inclusion of the images helped a lot - now off to see if I can do something like this for my site.
I just picked up photoshop 3 today (gulp!), thanks for the inspiration, I'm diving in!
looks cool :D gj , but what brush did u use? :) thx
I love all of your tutorials and think your designs are great!
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like the beam me up scotty, like your being abducted. ;)
I loved the composition.
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