Cosmin Andrei Palade - Communication by Design

Nitronic

2012-04-21T00:06:00.000+03:00

Savvy

2012-04-13T19:06:00.000+03:00

Gradient Grab: 2

2012-04-13T01:05:00.000+03:00

Sometimes It's nice to just cut loose and explore what you can do with the littlest of resources. Photoshop 7, good times.

Visual Candy

2012-04-13T00:58:00.001+03:00

Dark Horizon

2012-04-12T21:28:00.000+03:00

Tried some interesting color mixing
Needless to say, the paper wasn't on my side.

Carbon Lifetime

2011-09-27T19:12:00.000+03:00

This was another experiment, with gradients, selections and layer masks.

Chemical Romances

2011-09-11T21:00:00.000+03:00

This is actually a much older artwork, that I've had hanging round. Most of it was beyond help, however I could extract the main shape and try some experiments with it. I like how the color turned out, the interesting thing is that the colors we see in it aren't actually homogeneous, but artefacts of the texture.

BRight

2011-09-11T20:31:00.000+03:00

This artwork is very important to me, it goes in the "something I had to get out of my system" category, in the sense that with it I've confirmed for myself that I can handle making high quality shapes, not to say that I didn't think I could in the first place, but it's better to get all doubts off my mind, so when I have something important to do I can go all out.

Strider cliffs

2010-11-30T01:09:00.000+02:00

This is a collab I did with a very close friend Alexandru Ilies. The original artwork is his, color work is done by me.
This artwork was of great insight. A few days ago I was inspired by Chris Scalf to do a general to specific aproach in coloring.
As I progressed some color tweakings were necessary. I really liked how the highlights worked on the strider, giving it a more organic feel. It could have been much better but I think it looks good even as it is. I also feel I could've done a better job on the eye. Still I acomplished the two things I set out to do:
1. Proove Alex's works can reach a pretty good visual level given some tweaks
2. Find out for myself if Chris's workflow is good for me, and yea it really works fine. Still I can't shake the feeling that I will have to customise it sooner or later
Work time was really fast on it (about half an hour) surprisingly it doesn't feel that rushed. In the future I want to try this color workflow on a vector lineart, we'll see how that works out.

Dangerous Davoli

2010-11-21T14:41:00.000+02:00

This is something I did for a very good friend. Initially I wanted to do the entire vectoring myself, but I was pressed on by time so I used a few external resources ( Including GoMedia Arsenal ) to fit with what I had in mind. I'm quite proud of the typo in this one, it has exactly the feel I pictured to it. The most difficult part in the artwork was the "Dangerous" text, but I think it was well worth it. I am a little unpleased that, while I did separate the hair line and the hair shade line, the separation is barely noticeable, from the get go I wanted it to be subtile but not noticeable (guess that will teach me to zoom out once in a while)
One thing I'm particulary happy about, is that thanks to this artwork is that I finally understood how to fully operate Illustrator's pathfinder (and by this I mean the Alt+Click to apply the pathfinder rule to a entire group, long live mouse hover pop-up hints) All that being said, enjoy!

Gordon Black

2010-11-13T01:15:00.001+02:00

This is a small format I'm particullary fond of because it's the first small format I've done since I gained some valuable design insight.
It was kind of a bother to shuffle between Photoshop and Illustrator, but in the end it all worked out for the best, this is also the first small format on which I'm using Illustrator (thank God for artboards)

As for the concept, not much to it, it was just something random, for me it's very important that no matter how much I improve, to keep an eye for old workflows, many times I've found that getting rid of old workflows is less productive than taking the time to improve them as well with what you learn. Anyway, enjoy everyone. Also a big thanks to Quoenusz for the C4D renders.

Ka-Boom

2010-10-25T13:05:00.000+03:00

Romanian Baroness

2010-10-25T12:57:00.000+03:00

Urban Desktop v.1

2010-10-25T12:16:00.000+03:00

Paroh Phantasy

2010-10-24T14:40:00.000+03:00

Enter Paradox: Revised

2010-10-24T14:34:00.001+03:00

The Sketch here

Enter Paradox

2010-10-24T14:29:00.001+03:00

The revision here

Gradient grab: 1

2010-10-24T14:24:00.000+03:00

This artwork can be used as a resource under Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported

Attribution: A link back to this blog, or mention of me under Cosmin Andrei Palade, however this is not mandatory

ZoE

2010-10-24T13:54:00.000+03:00

Freak the stage

2010-10-24T13:20:00.000+03:00

Valkyrie Siren

2010-10-24T13:05:00.000+03:00

Worlds Apart

2010-10-24T12:11:00.000+03:00

Radial

2010-06-03T02:38:00.005+03:00

It's been too long since I did my old shool hobby sigs, so I thought why not give one a go (even if I have exams in around 5 days)

At first I was kinda freaked because I had a light background to work with (way harder than dark backgrounds) but it really turned out ok
Why radial? Radial Emotion by Marsheaux is the answer.
Enjoy!

Human Extasy

2010-05-17T00:58:00.002+03:00

Smooth

2010-04-28T21:56:00.003+03:00