Without a doubt, this digital painting was one of the top challenges of my time in school.
We were given 3 weeks to develop original artwork for a video game, movie, or cd. We were allowed to go retro on this one, so naturally, I did. The result is a piece I am very pleased with, combining Adobe Photoshop (for the paining) and Illustrator (for the remaining box art).
Back in my first year of college, we had a small assignment to create a grunge collage. I turned this piece into an advertisement of sorts for one of my favorite shows, AMC’s Mad Men.
The entire piece took about 4 hours, and it was really a blast to research and rebuild a number of old logos, then to age them in Photoshop.
A hand drawn piece I created, this piece is a metamorphosis from hand blender to ballerina. Or is it ballerina to hand blender…
Drawn at 11×17, then scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop, and finally digitally painted in Photoshop. The entire piece took about 16 hours to complete, and it had some really intricate lighting (particularily on the hand blender).
An experiment in rotoscoping, this poster design for my graphic design class tasked me with creating an idealized version of myself.
Naturally, I couldn’t resist the “James Bond” theme. My wife makes a cameo appearance as my bond girl in this one. This was a really fun piece to create, and if I had any critique on this one, it would be to add a bit more definition to my face!
This poster challenge, to develop a poster for one of your favorite artists, as if they were producing product for Kid Robot (a custom toy manufacturer).
I selected Shane Glines (one of my absolute favorite retro-style artists), and created a retro-styled poster to match. This was an exciting opportunity for me to do some work with Shane’s beautiful artwork, and the firstchance I had while in school to create a retro piece.
Typically, when I look back on my work, I see many things I would have liked to have changed. But this piece still feels just about right to me.
The client needed a logo that matched current logo designs for his other products, but would still hold it’s own as a unique and original piece.
This logo hasn’t changed much from my original concept work, and the client was very happy with the final result.
My client wanted a new look for his Time Management system. The old system was specifically branded, he wanted something that would not be tied to any of his current projects. I developed new a new logo, a fresh look and created a new name that would provide him with that universal feel for his system.
Two posters developed for public display, taking iconic symbols for Internet Explorer and twisting them to emphasize the “Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer” message.
As a web developer, Internet Explorer issues have made development much harder than it should be. designed the two posters to be “tiled” on a wall, with the large icon attracting attention, and the error message box conveying providing a more detailed explanation of the issue.
It really is amazing just how many people still use ie. I suppose it’s more convenient.