Meet Alex and Torre.
Half our marketing office was out sick, so I used the time to get some shots of two who managed to stay healthy. Both even balanced their gray and black attire without meaning to. Thank you guys for a fun, spontaneous shoot.
While looking through my old social media posts, I found some old designs from a B.O.S. I made back in college. I’m surprised these pages look as good as they do, albeit I see some alignment issues. I remember thinking about this shortly after creating it and not being happy with how it turned out, as I had originally been going for an illuminated bible style. I had added more simplistic (cartoon) designs than I originally wanted as those align more with my style, but not the illuminated biblical manuscript style I wanted. There are three font types used, two of which are a standardized type that anyone can get and one that I made myself. The one I made is not in English and is only seen on the middle image. I spent roughly 5 hours on that one font alone, researching old witch and wican scripts, then using the letterforms I found to create an alphabet that translates into English, then in Illustrator creating the alphabet to be used on the covers. I cannot tell you how long I spent on each page of the BOS, nor can I remember how long it took me to design the cover, after all of the time it took another hour or two for me to put the pages into the correct layout and print them, then more time to hand cut and bind them. Perhaps all the time is what makes me look back fondly on these, even with the issues I can see now.
Crewneck sweatshirt made from a digital drawing and sublimation. Drew this ribcage a couple of years ago with a few different variations. Now, I have started sublimating them onto shirts and crewnecks.
Sublimation printing: a digital printing process that uses heat and pressure to transfer designs onto objects.
I print my designs with a specific ink, place those printed designs on an object I want the design on, then apply heat and pressure (heat press) to the object and design. After pulling the design off, the ink stays on the object, leaving the design. Think back to the old iron on paper you could get as kids.
On the left is a custom best-friends digital drawing that a client wanted for matching cups. Right is a line drawing of an elephant that the same client wanted for a shirt.
Nearly every art teacher and profesor I’ve had in my life has told me the importance of iterations. Weather you are drawing digitally and make copies of the file to make small variations or if you are drawing in a sketchbook redrawing or using tracing paper to have variation with color; it is constant in art to make variations on your work.
I have made it a habit to make variations of my work, most are small changes of the background or a slight variation to the shading but this set has a bit of a range. Looking at them together, can you tell which one was the first or last variant?
I recently posted a video on TikTok showing a few of the drawings I’ve made involving hands. the first one shown is an original character I never finished. The second one is based on a photo of a twitch streamer I watch. These are what led me to drawing the final one below.
This final one is a whole bunch of hands reaching out towards space. I spend more time with the colors and the shading then with the line work so I ended up take it out the line work and readjusting the edges. It ended up being about the shape and shading rather than the line art I originally planned on using. I then put these on TikTok to show off my ability to draw hands.
I decided to play around with the layouts and sizes of my art. These are some of the ideas I have for bookmarks. The top one was using the idea of length to show the sky up until space. The second was using the length to show the layers of the water to the sky. The third is basically the same idea as the second but with a more texted background.
I recently watched a YouTuber named NerdForge challenge herself to paint the same painting 3 times in different time increments. The result of this video was beautiful and it made me want to create something based on the main tree in said paintings. The top image was the first one I made shortly after watching it. I made it purple with a hint of maroon in the leaves. I added wings in different parts of the tree to hint at creatures from that world. I also made the texture of the tree kinda like scales making it farther from an earth tree. The bottom image is the second one I made based on the top one I had made. I changed the texture of the tree and made the colors warmer while the leaves became green. These are meant to be two trees from the same world but with variations, like the difference between eastern redcedar and arborvitae trees.
This piece was originally me drawing a ruin from reference but I ended up creating a grassy field without the former buildings. The grass and sky were more engaging for me to create. I enjoyed creating the layers of green in the grass and the lines of clouds in the sky. The ruins I had started to draw seemed to ruin it. (pun unintended) The ruins covered the layers of grass in a way that made it seem like a waste. I wanted the grass to stand out in this piece.
What if everyday objects were alive and conscious? Would we still act the same way with what we buy and what we damage? Would we change the way we see factories? Would factories make living things or destroy them? I’d like for them to create but I figure they would destroy the living portions of these items. It seems more logical that factories take away the sentience of inanimate objects. Why else do humans instinctively talk to these objects when we are programmed to search for eyes? This project is meant to seem somewhat cute but shows a seemingly aware machine taking away the eyes of the boxes that go through it. Eventually, two of the boxes fled, but most get stuck on this loop forever. These objects are living, but not human they do not move as you might expect. This project was modeled and animated in Maya. After Maya, I took it into Premier to add sound. The sounds aren’t mine they are from bmccoy2 and PatrickLieberkind on freesound.
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