[WC] Antipodes

Watercolor pencil on paper

[Class] Wine Bottles

Photoshop & Illustrator
Time: most of the semester
For: Graphic Design A - Fall 2007
Assignment: wine bottle series

[Class] Finished 3D Design Projects

For the time being:

Pictures of a few finished 3D Projects

Class: 3D Design Spring '07

[PM] Picture touchups

Photoshop
Description: This first picture was going to be used for my Grandpa's book cover and thankfully he asked me to fix it up before he sent it to publishers.

Photoshop
Description: The first picture my good friend Tracey had me fix up (it's a picture of her great grandmother, I think?). The fixed up version is the second one and third picture is me just having fun with coloring it.

I haven't used photoshop in soooo long. It felt good to get some practice in.

[PM] WIP Bridge Thing

[PM] Flower B/A- Gradient Map

Before

After

Photoshop
Time: 5-10 minutes
Image: Taken in England 2003
Reason: Brief Tutorial from Layers magazine.
Description: Manip using Gradient Map. I didn't realize the flower had so much detail before I touched it up.

[WEB] Peer Geniuses

Photoshop & Frontpage
Size: 800x600px
Time: Less than an hour
Description: This is my contribution for my Art History Group Project. Our subject is Peer Geniuses: Picasso & Matisse and I was in charge of putting all our research together in a nice little presentation (and of course I chose to do so in a website). If I have time I'd like to add some things, like animation when you rollover the links, etc. But this is pretty much what it looks like as of now.
Entered: One of 8 entered in for the Transfer Scholarship at CSU Fullerton [Read More].

[PS] Peace (1 of 5 in series)

Photoshop
Original Size: 8''x10''
Time: Many hours?
Description: This is my first full big piece done in Photoshop from scratch. This is one of five in a series that I plan to complete. The series is of 5 words: "Health, Peach, Joy, Patience, and Endurance" This one is peace. I plan on doing Endurance next I think.
Entered: One of 8 entered in for the Transfer Scholarship at CSU Fullerton [Read More].

[GFX] Sig - Chob

Just trying to get into the photoshoping groove again.

[GFX] Tourny Entry R2 - Freddie Mercury

Photoshop
Size: 500x300
For: Group tournament on DI forum. Round 2. Theme: rock.
Stock: Freddie Mercury from Queen

[GFX] Tourny Entry R1 - Spidermans

For the first round on the group tourny on DI, we went with a marvel theme: thus spiderman. I started first with the graphic on the right, as a quick get-it-done.

Then I actually took some time and made this one.

Photoshop
Time: debatable
For: Group Tourny on DI. Round 1. Theme: Spiderman

[GFX] Photo Manip - My new baby

Photoshop
For: fun
Subject: my new baby - Toshiba GigaBeat Media player

I was bored waiting for it to charge. Tis nice.

[GFX] Sig - Wings

Photoshop
Size: 400x100
Stock: some lady from some game/anime thing.

[GFX] Sig - SOTW Entry

Photoshop
Stock: That one dude in that one game -_-
Reason: For the SOTW at iphotoshop.org. Had to use the given stock/cut-out. Tried for something more original than the usually past "cut-out" on background that I find overdone.

[GFX] Dead E. Ruxpin Animation

Imageready
As requested, black & white animation

See it put to good use here:
Dead E. Ruxpin

[GFX] Dead E. Ruxpin - Lantern (colored)

Illustrator + Photoshop = good times
Time: 2-3 hours (maybe more)
For: Brother's music thing Dead E. Ruxpin
Comments: This took a bloody long time but it feels pretty darn good to have actually made something. All from scratch (except the original font). Used Illustrator to design the lantern and then colored and spiffiness added with photoshop. Will post the final versions soon.

[Vector] WIP - Rivalries Logo

(Click to view larger version)

Illustrator
Comments: For the band The Rivalries (click to hear their music). It's a work in progress at the moment. I'm done with it today, will get a fresh look on it tomorrow, but this is the overall idea for now. Got to find a way to make the text more readable. Hmm, who knows, I might re-due all of it tomorrow x_x Huzzah!

Note - lack of creative things

I know, so much for my something creative every day. Gosh, Miss Sarah!

At least I can tell you that it's not because I'm being lazy (though that does help things along nicely). I just started into my last semester before transferring to a four year, and the times of my classes are so awkwardly...well, awkward, I barely have time to do the homework and projects they have ALREADY assigned me. [Takes a deep breath]. I'd hate to even see (let alone experience) what it will be like when I start working again in about a week or two.

At least: it's my last semester, my teachers seem pretty cool, I'll make good usage out of my daily planner, and I'll...learn...tings?

Therefore, things might become a little slow here. But I do plan on posting things I do in my 3D Design class on here (this will also motivate me to actually make something worth posting anywhere...I'm hoping anyways). So one could expect that plus the random other dibber dabbers I hope to do whilst I actually do have time.

And on that not-so-short note, I give you...

My gratitude? Thanks for reading =)

[GFX] It's the little things - Sig

Photoshop
Description: The pictures were actually used for a tutorial in my Photoshop Channels book, where you learn how to select an image (the flower) using masks to put it on a different background (the sky). But I just went a little farther with it and made it pretty with blending modes and some blurring, and then cropped it, slapped on some text and tada! I think it's pretty, and that's all that matters.

[Sketch] WIP preview

Original sketch done in chalk and graphite on October 17, 2006.
Scanned and just played with the skin in photoshop. Plan to do something with it one of these days.

[Sketch] Girl in da wind

Photoshop
Time: ~30min
For lack of inspiration to do anything else, here's a sketch of a girl in the wind! Wewt.

[GFX] Sig Request - Classy

Photoshop
Time: ~ 1 hour (on and off for foodz)
Stock: from a game
Reason: Request for Maggie at Epicalstudios.net

[GFX] Snake Sig

Photoshop
Stock: urr some anime. It was just of the girl. I turned the picture 90 degrees and added the snakey like things in. The original picture was actually more pleasant than this.

The text took waaay too long, and I'm still not sure I like it. I might fix it one of theses days, but for now...ta da! It's very green. Huzzah!