Thursday, July 31, 2008

Parkour Concentration


This was my first painting for my Concentration section for the AP Art Exam. It stinks. Exceedingly. However, I thought my concpet of Parkour as a demonstration of motion, energy, and anatomy was a good idea, plus I redid this one, not that it improved too much...The rest get better, by the way...and I like using the ellipsis...

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

At it again

It's a cloudscape, in case you couldn't tell. I really like this program.
oh, and as warning for the future: don't expect me to be posting so much once college starts...

My Friend Jordann

She looks...strange, but I think it's pretty good, since I was on a time crunch to get some Illustrator projects done in Advanced Multimedia (Senior Year). I had good intentions to actually finish her, but I think I'm too lazy and I need to look to the future anyway. Sorry Jordann.

More Work

Here's my work on the eBiz Suite logo for my work. Below is the final logo.
This is actually my first logo design assignment for work. I think I did this mid-June. This was a pretty important one--it's the logo for the main product "eBiz Suite," and the icon is now on most of the pages at syncnet.com. Cool stuff.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

My Logo

This is my design process for my own logo. I already knew the basic shape so I had to finally decide on the color and the "J." The large one in the middle is the one I finally came up with. I love my logo
This was just some experimentation with my logo in Illustrator. It's fun to try out those tutorials out there on the internet.

More Work Stuff

Here's some examples of stuff I've done with work--my mom is making a website through Syncnet now for cake decorating, so the header design at the top is one of the sections on her site. I designed basically all the buttons, headers, and graphics on the site, you should check it out. Cake decorating ideas, there's tons of great information like basic techniques, and plenty of new ideas to make cool cakes. Can't take credit for the logo (I don't want to either) it was made before I was hired.

Graduation Announcement

I ended up designing my own graduation announcement a couple months ago, and I think it's cool, so now you get to look at it. It sure makes me look like I do a lot of stuff...

Work

I work for Syncnet, inc. and I do both graphic design and other computer programming/development projects. I am the only graphic designer employed so I was supposed to come up with the new logo. This is the final (without the company name). I'll post my other ideas later, but I thought this was probably my best design so far. You can check out my other designs at Syncnet, membership website experts

Monday, July 28, 2008

Last One...For Today

Well, I'll stop with this one. Numba 5. It's not as good as my cow, but still, for only doin' 5 paintings ever with the software, I'd say I've done good today. Now that I've spent my entire day workin' on this blog, these paintings, and general browsing of other blogs I say good night.

And Another One!

I had planned on actually painting this picture, but I think I like using the computer for it. Wow, I don't know if I can stop. My fourth digital painting today...

It's Another One...

This painting program is addictive. Methinks I'm obsessed...at least until I can't think of any other random thing I can paint with it.

Second ArtRage Painting

Eventually I'll get the hang of this program. I thought this one was pretty cool though, and it's only my 2nd one!

First Digital Painting

Just finished this weird digital painting. I was experimenting with ArtRage, this digital painting software that I just found on the internet. Yeah the painting's kinda stupid, but I thought the program was pretty cool.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Summer Painting

(6-25-08)
Now that it's summer, I've been trying to get better with these kind of random paintings before I get shipped away to college where you actually have to have talent.

First Oil

My first oil painting. My dad and I painted watching Bob Ross in my basement. I think this is probably my best painting so far.

Commercial Art

This was one of my favorite projects in Commercial Art my Junior year of high school. In that class I got way better at pen and ink stuff.

Some more pen and ink stuff. The bottom part is a kind of doodle I did as part of the class, then decided to do one with my sister during church.

This isn't pen and ink, but here's some of my first cartoons as we did a very small unit in comm. art about cartooning. These aren't great, but I like a few of them.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Spray Paint

My dad showed me these cool videos on YouTube about spray paint artists and that got me way excited about spray paints. Here are some of the pieces I've done with it.

(10-24-07)
(11-3-07)

AP Art Stuff

My first piece for AP Art in 12th grade. Once again, it didn't register in my mind that I should use color, but at least I used 12 x 18 paper instead of some smaller size.

These three paintings were part of a series assignment, so I decided to do cool statue-like icons of different cultures. My first time ever using acrylics. I'm re-painting the Singapore lion, though, because of that terrible, terrible, terrible tree. The first one was pretty cool--got published in the Alta Literary Magazine, Euphony.


My first chalk pastel piece. I watched a ton of Planet Earth in the winter-time, so I started getting obsessed about the idea to do a cave for a piece. I took one of my photos from visiting the Minnetonka Cave in Idaho and drew it out with the chalk. I thought it was a fun piece and I love to look at this one.


This one was for Reflections. It looks bad up close, but far away it actually kinda looks cool.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

The Beginning

Here's a very early drawing, I was probably about 5. Shows you what I was interested in back then...

This one's a little more recent--A 2001 doodle page
Here's Jason, my favorite character to draw when I was 11. You can see some improvement in my art, right?

Another monster, is it really a surprise? I still haven't figured out that you shouldn't draw on scratch paper. This was also before I discovered color.


The Leviathon was another fun monster.


I think this is my first real colored pencil piece. Although it's not too great, be nice to my 9th grade skills