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This Simple Grunge Photoshop Tutorial is one of the tutorials used in class with students when exploring Grunge Movement and creating artwork in this style. Used with both level 3 Graphic Design and level 2 multimedia.
Grunge is all about grime, mess and could fit within your “contruction descontruction project”. Photoshop was a great deal for creating digitally created images with grung effect, with eccentric textured overlays, brushes and styles. Graphic Designers used this style heavily in the 90s create artworks that reflect mess, rebellion. Grunge was a thing of the 90s with:
music and video productions
Fashion with designers such as Marc Jacob, read more about and explore his work:
https://www.drmartens.com/uk/en_gb/collaborations/marc-jacobs
LET’S START OUR SIMPLE GRUNGE PHOTOSHOP POSTER
To start you will need to download grunge, fractal and splatter brushes grunge type fonts from http://www.starwalt.com/photoshop_stuff2.html, http://www.1001fonts.com/grunge-fonts.html
On brushes, You can also make your brushes by scanning your drawing…
ONCE YOUR ARE ARE READY JUST WATCH THE VIDEO AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE
When you have finisheed the tutorial, your task is to create a grunge poster or artwork, the is and send a message to an audience
STEPS IN CREATING A SIMPLE GRUNGE PHOTOSHOP POSTER
Rememember, the whole point is to ensure that your sketchbook is full of experimentation, concept creation and research.
How you are going to do this:
- Research art forms with grunge
- fashion
- digital art
- music
- art & craft
- photography
- interior design
- Research and write about a few artists that you like, try and re-create their art
- Decide on a topic or subject that you like to explore simple grunge with
- Make some quick thumbnails in your sketchbook
- Create your artwork using the medium that you want (paint, markers, mixed media)
- Use illustrator or photoshop to create your simple grunge poster just
- Analyse your poster
- Make sure you add you final poster in your sketchbook with different colour themes of layouts
- If you have problems watch the video tut (the tut has no text, it’s time consuming, you can always ask me)
What do you need to explore after the This Simple Grunge Photoshop Tutorial?
For grunge Art
- You could create grunge backgrounds on your sketchbook with ink splatter, accrylic, stamps and mixed media
- You could try create an art piece
- You could try grunge photography
- You explore with Photoshop and illustator
- You could explore typography
- https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/27/5247944/the-awl-history-of-grunge-typography
- Don’t forget to explore the work of David Carson
Other video tutorial links
Graphic Design Courses>Simple poster design in the style of Dan Reisinger
Level 3 Graphic Design>Creating a poster with simple shapes Level 3 Creativity exercise
