23.9.10

Banjo Pig

Banjo pig! Cuz all the cool kids are doing it.


And check out all the other sweet banjo pigs at the Dueling Banjo Pigs blog.

20.9.10

pattern study 004+



pattern study 004
ink on paper
8.5 x 11 in.


And these little designs below were a sort of test run for the pattern studies. The very first ones. The impetus for it all.


pattern study a
ink on paper
4.75 x 4.75 in.



pattern study b
ink on paper
5.5 x 5.5 in.

28.8.10

pattern studies

I've been obsessed with patterns recently.


pattern study 001
ink on paper
11.5 x 11.5 in


pattern study 002
ink on paper
8.5 x 8.5 in

29.6.10

Brett's Midwet Poetry Tour

So Brett Jenkins, amazing poet and all around cool cat (but not like a feline. She's a human, honest) kicks off her Midwest Poetry Tour this Friday! She asked me to design a poster for the first date and this is what I came up with.


She liked the design, and asked if I could whip up a business card in the same style.


And don't forget to check out Brett's blog.

24.4.10

Bad Clam

For my illustration class I was to create a character and design a super hero trading card based on a given name. My name was Bad Clam, and this is the result.

13.4.10

Cereal Box

This is my cereal box design for my illustration class. I randomly pulled the name "Choco-Frothy Toasties" for my cereal.

23.3.10

Movie Monster Parody Poster

For my design class we were to parody a monster movie poster. We were given a poster and then we had to change the title and design a new poster around that title.

I was given "The Navy vs. the Night Monsters" (click on the images for biggie size)



The new title I decided on was "Space Pandas vs. the Bamboobots." I made a rough layout for my poster.



Then it was on to character design.

Bamboobot concepts:







Space Panda concepts:







Final character designs:





Put it all together...



...add a bit of weathering, and, boom!

3.3.10

Nesting Dolls

In my Inspirational Design class, we had to design Russian nesting dolls according to a theme. My theme was "wrestling beaver family," so of course I decided to do luchadores.

Here are my final designs (click images for bigger)

El Ombligo (The Belly Button)


La Cola Flameante (The Flaming Tail)


El Diente Saliente (The Bucktooth, or, literally, The Departing Tooth)


Then I had to apply these designs to 3D models using UV maps.



Once the textures are applied, I used an HDR image to light them.


Shadow Pass


Color Pass


And Occlusion on top...


And this is the final result!



Composited into a photo looks something like this