Another One

This is just AWESOME. I'll be saving the basic logo design (Top right) for a real logo, but these were also to put into my portfolio for logo design.

Designing

I applied for a T-shirt designer job yesterday, so I figured I ought to start beefing up my portfolio as far as design/logos and stuff goes. Here's a cool "grunge" design I did in Illustrator. It's totally sweet.

More Artist Trading Cards

#3. I realized later why the pyramids didn't look as good as they should have--I sprayed the shade up and down instead of at an angle. Oh well, I actually redid this one for Hill, because she really wanted it, but I had to trade it in class. Kirk Logan (who I had known since 4th grade) now has it.

#4. This was one of my other favorites--I loved the texture because I did a lot of layering and scraping (with a palette knife) and in the end the spray of the water could be felt, as could the grooves making the highlights of the rocks.

#5. The shading on this planet was awesome, though I ruined it with a terrible background--I was trying to make a few comets, but that backfired and it now looks like a spaceship/UFO or something. It's harder than I thought to keep clarity with spray paint on such small dimensions. Seth Crandall, Mr. Sterling Scholar, ended up with this one.

#6. I tried to recreate the amazing shading effect of the planet above and failed miserably, not to mention the atrocious composition. Two subjects=bad, (generally) three=great.

Artist Trading Card #2

This one is my absolute favorite card, so it gets it's own personal post all to itself. My teacher took this one, so it made me both mad and happy because I lost my favorite card, but I was also wise in my choice of favorite, because my teacher had to have the best--meaning I'm getting better with knowing what is good.

A Little Extra Time

I still have a long time 'till my first class, so I decided to try out Paint with my sweet laptop and the stylus/touchscreen. I used the mountains just outside my window as reference. I'm quite proud of this because I've never made anything in Paint that wasn't stupid and looked horrible. I like painting on the computer because it's easy, doesn't cost everytime, requires literally no setup, it's not messy and it's fast--I made this in about a half-hour! I can't wait to get Photoshop loaded on this baby.

Sketch Book Stuff

Today is the first day of college. I don't have a class until 1:00, so what could I possibly do that's better than updating my blog?

Here's a nice out-of-the-ordinary art piece for me. I did this at the beginning of last year in AP Art after I saw the Sterling Scholar kid do something like it, so naturally I copied his ideas in my own sketchbook, because that's what I like to do.

I drew this charcoal spider at my Grandma and Grandpa Brown's house during the October General Conference last year.

This is a more recent sketch from this particular sketchbook. I did these in Koosharem after I found a load of animal books on a bookshelf, this last May. I then inked out the elk on 6-15-08.

I also did these on my Koosharem trip in May, but I only wanted to show the elephant because I hated the antelope when I was drawing it, so I stopped, and I still hate it now.

When I went to San Diego, I saw lots of booths for caricature drawing, so I decided I'd do my sister as we traveled back home on June 15th. This was my very first caricature, so sorry Hill, and sorry to all those I just gave eye spasms to.

More multimedia

With the exception of the last picture, these were all a part of my portfolio for Advanced Multimedia.

My parents went to Singapore last year and took two pictures with one of them in it, so I decided to put them together, since they couldn't do it themselves, so I took my dad out of his picture on the lion and put in with my mom.

Miss Sandy lives in my ward and she had a photo-shoot for another guy in my ward in our basement, so I grabbed her picture and put in Washington D.C., where our family went two summers ago.

This is a scene from my parents' Singapore trip, and I wanted to see my uncle Gary jump his bike onto the grass--a dangerous feat in Singapore.

I thought I'd be cool and carve faces into the rocks, then I found out people can actually do it so it looks real and much better on places like worth1000, so I got a little discouraged...

Me likes this one. That's me and my captain, Bryan, playin' a cadence at Alta. I'm basically that short compared to everyone on that drumline.

This was a sweet title I made for the morning video announcements that I was in charge of one week, so I played around with the lighting effects/filters and came up with this.

Going Back

Here's some old assignments from my first Multimedia class. I figured I'd post 'em so you can see how much better I am now, not that I'm all that great anyway... This one above is a vector assignment, getting used to the pen tool in Illustrator

This was a photoshop assignment to replace the sky with a different skyscape. i guess it's ok, I should have messed around with the sky a bit more, darkened it, maybe mess with some of the other settings.

Artist Trading Cards

Artist Trading Cards were the last assignments for the year in AP Art. I realy liked this assignment--we were supposed to create 17 pieces (2 1/2" X 3 1/2") that were in our own "style." I decided to do spray paint, this is number 1

Duck Stamp

This is kind of embarrasing, but here's my first duck stamp entry. It wouldn't be too embarrasing if it were five years ago or something, but this was my entry for the 2008 Utah Duck Stamp Contest.

Parkour 2

This is my second Parkour piece. Much better than the first, and I love the anatomy, although the legs look a bit strange (though that's partially the position's fault).