i find this extremely interesting
2012 Wallpaper - G is for Gameplan - Michigan State
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Last year Michigan State punched Michigan in the mouth. They literally punched them in the mouth. After being called for 13 penalties (6 of them of the 15 yard variety) Michigan State Defensive Coordinator Pat Narduzzi famously said, "That's what we try to do. Sixty minutes of unnecessary roughness. I'm just happy it didn't get called on every snap."
State has clearly been the more physical team of late and their boundary pushing gameplans have paid off to the tune of four straight wins in the rivalry. This wallpaper was inspired by their bold and reckless tactics. I picture the Michigan State coaching staff handing out stacks of flash cards like those used to teach sight words to kindergarteners. Yes, this is a dig at the level of intelligence required to gain acceptance to the state university. Yes, I attended a state university (not that state university) so I am licensed to dig.
The images below are previews only. You can get the widescreen, iPad and mobile wallpapers at The Art. The Art. The Art!.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:56 AM | 
Love it. Wallpapered so that
Love it. Wallpapered so that
October 17th, 2012 at 11:34 AM |
Maybe it's a golf scorecard
Maybe it's a golf scorecard
Maybe it's a golf scorecard pencil?
"That's tremendous, Jim."
October 17th, 2012 at 11:58 AM |
Those don't have erasers.
Those don't have erasers.
Those don't have erasers.
October 17th, 2012 at 1:57 PM |
some do
some do
Torrey Pines in SD, and Edina CC in MN do. (Must feel their golfers need to change a lot of scores!) /s
October 17th, 2012 at 12:55 PM |
Eraser stuff
Eraser stuff
Good point about the eraser. Here are a few candidates for the justification I will use to soothe my obsession with getting the details right and therefore excuse myself from posting a revision. Pick the justification you like best, or recommend one of your own:
- The pencil owner is not intelligent enough to recognize mistakes and therefore never erases anything.
- The pencil owner only uses the pencil for mindless scribbling.
- The pencil owner is a serial sharpener. There was always that kid in elementary school who didn't really need to sharpen his pencil but just liked the grinding sound from the manual pencil sharpener bolted to the wall.
October 17th, 2012 at 1:17 PM |
Eraser stuff
Eraser stuff
Haha, seeing as how the pencil owner has clearly gone a substantial amount of time without realizing his pencil says GO STAEE! , I'm pretty sure that it is someone that posseses all three of these characteristics, aka a typical sparty football player.
Anyways, great work as always, monuMental, can't wait to see the big reveal of your special 'project'!
October 18th, 2012 at 9:02 AM |
Also...
Also...
could be that the user of that pencil has a separate eraser that he uses instead of the crappy one at the end of the pencil.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:55 AM |
Terrific work!
Terrific work!
Already my new wallpaper...
October 17th, 2012 at 12:01 PM |
Beautiful, as always!
Beautiful, as always!
Beautiful, as always!
Victors Valiant
October 17th, 2012 at 12:18 PM |
Fantastic. I especially love
Fantastic. I especially love
Fantastic. I especially love the pencil with Go Staee! on it. Made me lol.
October 17th, 2012 at 1:52 PM |
Nice!
Nice!
Nice!
October 17th, 2012 at 5:41 PM |
Love the "Michigan State
Love the "Michigan State
Love the "Michigan State College."
October 17th, 2012 at 5:54 PM |
I put both
I put both
I put both the Alabama and Notre Dame mobile backgrounds on my phone; I don't need to tell you guys what happened.
I'm not going to use it until we win on Saturday. Until then, it's just a loaded page in my browser.
Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.
October 17th, 2012 at 6:11 PM |
The details
The details
As always are amazing. So did you create the images and overlay a texture with transparency on the cards? Or did you create textured cards and then overlay the images, adding transparency? Or just apply the same texture to the printing on the cards? And how did you make the metallic part of the pencil - that is just incredible.
You make very difficult things look easy...
October 17th, 2012 at 8:51 PM |
It's a Texturization Demonstration
It's a Texturization Demonstration
Thanks for the nice words.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with Photoshop (so some of these terms might sound like gibberish) but here are some step-by-step images with descriptions showing how the layers are set up for each card. Build order is from bottom to top layer.
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1. Vintage paper photograph.
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2. Vector Mask for the outer shape; layer styles for the outer glow, drop shadow and top/left edge highlight; Levels Adjustment layer to tweak brightness & contrast.
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3. Distressed paper texture with Color Burn blending mode and Layer Mask with different areas painted in for each card with the airbrush.
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4. Optional water damage photograph with Normal blending mode Layer Mask with the corner painted in with the airbrush.
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5. Illustration with Multiply bending mode (except the white chinstrap which is set to the Soft Light blending mode).
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6. Distressed paper texture desaturated, inverted, set to Screen blending mode and clipped to the illustration shape with a Vector Mask.
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7. Illustration Layer Group duplicated to make colors a bit deeper.
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8. Steps 4-6 repeated for the text.
October 17th, 2012 at 10:35 PM |
Wow
Wow
Thanks! I'm familiar with Photoshop so this is very understandable. I'm going to have to play with textures this week to cement in the lesson! Really appreciate you sharing your time and expertise.
October 17th, 2012 at 6:09 PM |
Need MOAR monuMental.
Need MOAR monuMental.
Only thing I would change is to get it out earlier in the week so I have more time to show it off.
Well done bro.
We are here because we're not all there.
October 17th, 2012 at 7:39 PM |
you are so good at this....
you are so good at this....
you are so good at this....
Love it. Wallpapered so that my Michigan State cubemate has to look at it all week.
Only problem is that if you've ground down a pencil that much, there's bound to be some eraser wear!