Oh, I guess it should go without saying that I was largely unable to adhere to my rules. The sketch was done in under 10 minutes — so I shifted the other 20 minutes to Illustrator time. Then came 30 minutes of Photoshop time … which came about after my time in Illustrator was up and I wanted to keep going; I figure switching programs and setting a new time limit is fair, no?.

What can I say, the system isn’t perfect yet.
The process is too lengthy to do one per day. Balls. It’s got to fit into 30-45 minutes.

Yes, I guess I am getting carried away.
1680×1050 download at Flickr. The sweet bokeh-style circles in the background: here.

This thing is nothing fancy, but it’s one of those things that I think is pretty cool because of how it started out … as a grey background with light grey triangles:

^ I made a triangle, positioned it randomly, repeated this a couple dozen times.
I had no idea what I was doing at this point.

^ At some point I got bored of doing that and started selecting (magic wand), filling, and blurring parts of the triangles.

^ MOTION BLUR! Now we’re getting somewhere awesome.

^ Added type, duplicated the blur, adjusted the colour.
At this point I decided that grey and easter colours weren’t going to cut it.

^ Enter vibrant purple-pink!

That’s about it.
There was tweaking to the type (masked bits of it) and added some texture and warmer colours to get the final result.

You’ll be seeing these on signs in 40 years.
Full size @ Flickr.

I had an idea that lead to another idea which spun off into a grungey robot. It’s so emo.

Full size @ Flickr.