Monday, October 26, 2009

Book Cover: Valley of Predators


My computers and art project. It's 10" x 18" and freakin' awesome. The arm is my roommate's, and I really like how my picture turned out after playing with it in Photoshop for so long. If you'll notice the bottom right-hand corner, it's brought to you by Phobia Publishing--recognize the logo? It's from my first comp and art project! Genius!

Scarab




The scarab beetle has one of the coolest shapes, in my opinion, in the bug world. I particularly love the abstracted shapes the Egyptians used in their depictions of the "sacred" bug. To show how consistent I am with my love of the shape, I'll let you know that my favorite view of this playing-card-beast is the bird's eye view, which is the most common view of the scarab beetle in both ancient and modern artforms and abstractions. It took forever to make. I love the legs--especially the back ones, I thought it was genius how I made the two back legs as one element, but still portrays the idea that there's two legs. I hate the head, but that's what I get for procrastinating, I suppose--though my teacher said that was what she liked, so if it pleases her, it pleases me.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

We're Certified!



Icons to be placed on sites to reassure the customer the site is tested, trusted, and certified. These are pretty cool, I think. I love the second one, 'cause I can use the technique for other things, just happened upon the effect by accident. Love it!

Monday, October 5, 2009

I Called It Crag

Here's the assignment; create a module (shown above) and make 20 of them, afterwhich put 'em all together into a 3D sculpture. I chose this awesome shape and based it off a fractal, because I think fractals are some of the coolest designs ever, hooray for math! Love it.
Bird's eye shot. You can see how I kept the composition pretty close to the module (making this "sculpture" a pseudo-fractal, since I didn't obey the strict iteration rules of fractals, but it's pretty close). Having a hard time seein' it? Check out the module in the first picture and note the "T" shape, the little square by itself and the bendy shape. Look at this picture, there's also a "T" shape, a bendy thing and the loner square--which is attached, but it's raised a bit to take its place in the "fractal," so there ya go.

Nice angle. Thank you, did it myself. You're welcome.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

HFH T-Shirt Designs

There were a bunch of fliers in the FAC for a Habitat For Humanity t-shirt design contest. Here were some of the ones I came up with and actually created on the computer. However, I didn't submit the design in the top right. Maybe I should've, but I thought two was good enough. Hope I win!