Collage

This is a collage of some of the past work that I have done. Some of these works are paintings, 3d pieces, charcoal, colored pencil, computer painted images, images drawn in photoshop, pencil, and torn paper. Some of these go way back to high school, but I just love them so much. Hope you can see them. Enjoy.

Final Result

Here is what the final result looks like. I'm very pleased with how it turned out...I worked really hard on it.

Roughs for magazine

Here are my rough ideas for a magazine that I was supposed to create for my computers and art class. I was kicking around the idea of doing a scientific like magazine. Something like National Geographic. The assignment was coming up with a cover for the magazine, contents page, and then two double spreads for an article. There also needed to be an infograph that explains in depth about a certain part of your article. My article was on sleep and it made a mention of hibernation. So I thought i would do an info graphic on that. It would explain how it works for bears.

Book Cover Final

Here is the final book cover for The Secret Garden. I changed both the front and the back. I also changed one of the tabs. I think it looks much better than the previous. You have to click on it to look at it close up. There are some faded like tree leaves and branches towards the top. I like how it turned out.

Book Cover

Here is my book cover. I chose to do The Secret Garden... Different I know. This has actually come a long way from what I had at the start. I totally forgot to post the beginnings of it. It used to have a "not so good" color scheme and a terrible, terrible choice of font for the title and just typography in general. I think this is a different approach compared to the very cliche book covers that have been done. You know, the old English style paintings and garden gate photo's, with the kids playing in the garden. Mine I feel is different, new-aged and fresh. I still have some changes though. I need to change the front and do like a keyhole kind of look instead of another vector like garden for a focal point. I also need to change the color of the title. The back needs work with composition and space. I also need to change the font size. I need to look at some books again and see what other elements I'm missing to make this thing look more legit.

PRINTS!

Alright so here is the final print of "David of Our Day." I think it turned out well. It was super hard to keep my values consistent with each print because of wiping (of the ink) process. It still looks good.
The other print is my first print of using acid. Not me like on acid, but using acid to make indentations or lines on a copper plate. It's pretty cool. Anyway I wanted to do something with strong hard lines instead of the soft look of the David print. Like I said its my first print so I have lots of pencil on it. I'm trying to decide what line work and values to use. This print is eventually supposed to be combined with another persons print in class. We have to both meet at certain points of our paper. I'll explain that later, but for now I'm happy with the idea. Mario is just fun! Do you remember how fun old school Mario 3 was? So fun!

FINAL PICTOGRAMS

These are my final pictograms that I completed for my Computer and Art class. You can see that they look much better than my rough drafts. From left to right we have: Ultimate Aggie, True Aggie, and the Scotsman. The Scotsman was the pictogram that I struggled with the most. It's hard to make an image that can read well far away. If I placed a lot of people together it would have looked strange far away. I also incorporated Big Blue (the school mascot) in between two fans to show that its a game setting. We were supposed to show one set in color and the other in black and white. One was to read large and the other to read small. I like them!

So here are my Aggie traditions that I tried to relay. I've some different looks for each idea or tradition. One is being a "True Aggie" (which is kissing on the A, on a full moon at midnight) the other is singing the Scotsman song (which is done always done at sporting events, it includes actions that people use during the song), the last one is riding the Aggie bull statue to be an Ultimate Aggie. Which apparently you are supposed to do in the buff, but I just don't want to be that detailed.
I think that I'm still struggling a little with the Scotsman image. Maybe I'll incorporate Big Blue(our school mascot) in with the Student fans. That way it won't look like a choir. I guess I need to work on the "True Aggie" image as well; shorten the skirt on the girl and work on proportions of the figures.

This is a dry print idea that I had for my printmaking class. I like the idea of showing what today's ideal hero or male looks like and does. I did this all in photoshop. I manually drew in the ipod, headphones, and surfboard to show what "today's Daniel" looks like.





















This is my tiger that I did for the tracing assignment in illustrator. It took a long time...even though it might not look like it doesn't.

Thumbnails

These are my thumbnails for pictographs. I originally wanted to go with pictures/pictograms that would help students around the campus. They aren't interrelated enough...So my favorite is the pictogram that symbolizes becoming a true Aggie (two people kissing on top of the A under the full moon). Maybe I can do some pictographs that just symbolize Aggie traditions. There is another pictogram that symbolizes Aggie Ice cream (ice cream on top of an upside down A that looks like a cone), I might go with that and come up with different symbols or signs that the store could use.

My first blog ever

Wow...I've become who I have made fun of for so long. Funny how that works. So here is my blog. I put a symbol of a bird on here to keep things simple.