statuS meteR...

so...in our ADG class, we had one of our lab specialists (Amy Something-or-other) come in and give a presentation/tutorial on painting techniques in photoshop.  pretty much like traditional painting, but on a computer screen.  it was amazing!  the things she could create in photoshop from absolute scratch blew my mind!  she used to be a sort of concept artist/digital painter and her work was incredible.

anyway...then we got a photoshop assignment to create some sort of status meter, like one you would see in a video game.  the meter also had to have a scale from 1-10. so for my meter, i decided to apply some of the same painting techniques that she showed us in class.  this was an in-lab assignment, so we only had 4 hours to work on it, which for me, was only 2.5 hours since i was a little late to class.  whoops!  so....here's the (not-so-final) final.

for my scale, each half of a bar would represent 1 out of 10. so in the picture...it's displaying 9 out of 10. get it?

for you photoshop junkies out there, this whole thing was done with brushes only, minus the one outer glow and the drop shadows under the status bars.

it definitely could have been better, but im proud of it, knowing that i pulled it off in a little over 2 hours.

also, be expecting some sort of still life painting in the next coming weeks.