This is William Morris' poster design for the film "The Maids of Wilko." He uses contrast such as light against dark and cool colors against warm colors to catch our attention.

This picture catches my attention through being abstract and somewhat balanced, almost symmetrical in nature.

This piece uses to the classic blue/orange contrast Hollywood has come to really love recently. While eye-catching it's soothing through its realism and homely atmosphere.

First time making something with Photoshop

Tiles Design

My color scheme for my next poster

Design based on quote

Quote

The quote I chose for my new poster is "Windmill, windmill for the land, turn forever, hand in hand"

me messing with distort

Me messing with the gradient

Designs based on words

This is my image for the word "active." What makes it look active and doing something is how almost everything is on an angle, also, the blue and orange contrast is very eye catching. The way it's structured almost makes it look like a rocket ship in the nigh sky, or a shooting star.

This is my image for the word, you guessed it, "quiet." What makes it look quiet is how the font looks somewhat handwritten and skinny,  also how the word is almost the same color as the background makes it much quieter than if I had used standard black. What also makes it quiet is how all the letters are lower case.

I made this image to represent the word "loud." What makes it loud is how large the letters are, and how they are all clustered together, providing little negative space.

This is my white on black design. What I did was had two letters that were round, and had other letters orbiting around them.

This is my "stable" design. I have no letters on an angle, and every letter appears to be on solid ground and supporting each other.

This design uses color, the lines of yellow help guide your eyes up and down the page while the subtle gradient guides your eyes from left to right.

This design is for the word "camo." The words are subtle and blend in with the backgrounds they're put in.

This design is for the word "implied." You have to look at it more than once to see that it spells the word. Plus, it is very faint and you can't tell whether the letters are the background or the negative space is. 

Different effects with illustrator

Good designs involving words (not mine)

This piece is very active, the letters are jumbled, you can barely read them, they draw a face.

This piece is very calm and soothing, everything seems to be on a path, and has very eye catching contrast. The image is almost psychedelic in nature. 

This piece is very stable, the whitish grey contrasts against the blackness of of the space around it. The text is all on a very straight line is placed in a spot where it is supported by the nebula, thus looking stable. The imagery is also very quiet in nature, the text is seemingly small compared to the negative space. 

lunchbox

logo design

word

Acrid - Having an irritatingly strong and unpleasant taste or smell; Angry and bitter.
Synonyms: Pungent - Biting - Bitter - Sharp

Things that are bad tasting/smelling: rotting food, strong alcohol, smoke, sulfur
Things that are angry/bitter: Heavy Metal, Teenagers, Noise Music, Drone Music

Squares

my first few designs

The focal point is right above the center of the page, I used the pattern just below the corksrew and the lines around the hexagon lead up to it, plus, that's where the head of the "y" begins. The thing I like most about my design is the star and how the plaid works with it help, it your eye move around the page.

The focal point of this design is in the center with the two radial gradients, you can use the lines next to it to move up the page. The gradients help you to move down and left of the page. This is probably my  best work with gradients, and probably my favorite design I've made so far.
The focal point here is to the upper left of the center, in that little white box surrounded by boxes filled with designs.  The most successful thing about this design is probably how the shapes on the right kind of shimmer and let the viewer's eyes slide down the page.

The focal point is again, right above the center of the page, in the circle with all the wingdings, with the whitest background on the page. The most successful thing about this design, in my eyes, is how the corners and how all the edges lead right to the focal point, it gives you freedom on ways to lead your eyes to the focal point. Also, if you catch any of the music references, you're awesome.

The focal point of this piece is right in the center this time, it's the one yellow block that doesn't have a gradient, it looks like it's giving off light. I'd say the most successful thing about my design here is the gradients and how they all seem to revolve around the center of the page. My color scheme here is yellow and purple, it's not a contrast that's used a lot, unlike blue and orange. To make it interesting, I tried to place the shapes surrounding the center in such a way that you could vaguely make out some type of structure, maybe a robot, maybe a person, the interpretation is up to you.