Monday, June 22, 2009

Traditional Art...

So maybe I've been a little biased towards my Graphic Design projects lately, and you thought I was dual-majoring. I have thus decided to display the little things I've done on the side. As pitiful as it is, these are actually almost all of the drawings I've done this whole summer. Above is another graffiti drawing, something that is becoming a favorite style of mine. It says, "can," by the way.
I bought some of George B. Bridgman's books and these are drawings I copied from his Book of a Hundred Hands. I, of course, take no credit what-so-ever for the drawings, I'm just showing how I've been attempting to emulate his cool style--especially with such a difficult subject as hands.
This is rather embarrassing, so naturally, I have to post it to the world wide web where everyone can see. This terrible smudge of charcoal is supposed to somewhat resemble the likeness of my little sister. Yeah, I know, needs serious work. I'm too lazy, though, and I justify it with these facts about it: 1) It's the first charcoal piece I've done since late April, 2) I only spent an hour on it last night, and 3) Hill thinks it's the coolest thing.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

What Weather Is This?


Here's a little picture I made inspired by the uncharacteristic weather that Utah has faced the past 17 days.

Rock Logos


My mom needed me to make a logo for youth conference, which will be at the Lava Hot Springs this year, lucky ducks. The theme is "R.O.C.K." meaning Reach, Obey, Something-that-starts-with-a-'C,' and Kneel. If we get shirts in time (y.c. is this Thurs and the screen-printers aren't available 'till Monday) then I'll get one of the extras, hooray! This would be the 2nd time one of my designs has ever been put on a shirt.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Jonah-gized


I'm still playing with Photoshop, so I'm messing with pictures of people. This is my cousin, Jonah, who plays lacrosse, so I figured I'd attempt a sports ad for him. Still not sure how I feel about this one.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Design Process

Here's a couple ideas I've been messing around with for the "final" Syncnet logo. I think I've done a pretty good job this time, and I like how doing all this kinda stuff at work makes me know that graphic design is what I want to put all my time into for school and a career.
Above are some Baroque patterns I designed today for some sweet cake decorating products I'm coming up with.

This is another of the random designs I have to make as "product manager" and "graphic designer" of Syncnet, Inc. Feelin' pretty official, if I do say so myself.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Another Batch Of Button Upgrades


These are a few examples of the new system buttons for Syncnet's main product, eBiz Suite. We've now, for the most part, gotten our graphics up to par with the rest of the latest and greatest! I have to say I really like these--and as a sidenote I did not design the icons, we bought them...

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Button Upgrade

This what I did today: made upgrades on most of the graphics and buttons on the cake decorating site--which launched into business Monday! It's finally up and running, and now it's got cool buttons :D. I guess I ought to get back to work now...

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Photo Editing Streak

A fall in Silver Falls State Park.
Silver Falls State Park.
Could ya guess? Silver Falls.
My mom's flowers.
Astoria column.
I recently discovered how much fun it is to mess with pictures on photoshop. I made some really bad pictures turn out pretty cool, though I still have no success selling them on stock photo sites. Can't wait to learn how to edit photos the right way, but I'd say I've done an OK job for just messing around with settings. So here's just a random couple of pictures and a cake that I drew a few days ago in Illustrator.
Cake. Yum.
My friend Jacinda on the trail to Ghost Falls behind the Draper Temple.

View on the way to Multnomah Falls.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Swiss Flags


This was kind of an experiement to see what I can come up with and to see if actually want to finish this idea with all 300 other flags out there...more to come? Maybe.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

The Defender

Had some fun with the image below, so I cropped it and threw in an abstract background. Pretty cool, right?
I just love Illustrator so much. This is a greek warrior guy with a logo-feel to it. I didn't finish the bottom, because I kinda like it like that and it looks weird cropped. There's my little night-time project for ya.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Cake Ads, Cupcake Ads, They're All Pretty Sweet (Don't Mind The Pun)

I like this one a lot. Talk about a sweet ad for cakes.
After the first one (below) I started having more fun with 'em.

My job is way too fun. The assignment today, and technically from here on out, is managing product creation. Believe it or not, these ads I made are actually products--these are just the images, however. I also really really like these and claim all intellectual rights to them, as well as actual legal rights, as these are all copyright (c) Syncnet, Inc. 2009 with all rights reserved.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

PSDTUTS+


Most of the tutorials I've been using in my latest designs have come from an amazing site, PSDTUTS+, and recently, they've posted a contest to win $1000 in printing from UPrinting. I certainly recommend visiting. Every graphic designer that wants to amount to something should take advantage of PSDTUTS+ and all the opportunities available there.
The picture has nothing to do with anything, it's just my favorite picture I've ever edited in Photoshop. This is at Silver Falls National Park in Oregon! (Added 6/4/09)

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Experimenting With Brushes In Photoshop





These are too much fun. I just go download a couple sets of free brushes and suddenly, an hour later, I've made a bunch of these random squares of experimentation. It's a great way to spend your Saturday nights, let me tell ya :D...

Friday, May 22, 2009

In Memory Of My Old Header


Say, "goodbye," to my old header, it's time to update. I dedicate this post to the end of my era of less-than-great designs...

Thursday, May 21, 2009

30 Day Meal Planning Logo


Here's a brand-spanking-new logo, hooray! This for another of my mom's products, "30 Day Meal Planning." I must say this is a pretty sweet logo...

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Snake Logo


This is a logo-tribute to the Great Basin Rattlesnake I encountered two Saturdays ago...

Banner Ad

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Skateboard Headers

Recent assignment at work has required these headers. Above is for skateboard tricks and below is just for skateboard.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Basket Icon

Another creation from a tutorial. They're just so much fun!

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Voltage


My new favorite thing to do in my abundant free time is to make stuff with tutorials. It's awesome.

Backgrounds


Tuesday, May 12, 2009

^2

Thought this one was cool, mostly 'cause of the cool text that I drew with the Wacom. Did these on Monday

More grungy stuff.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Squares

More practice squares from Friday...

Klavier


I found a bunch of brush packages for Photoshop on Friday, so I started doing these little square studies as I was playing with brushes.

Friday, May 8, 2009

eBiz


Now this is what I'm talkin' about! Say, "hello," to the final version of eBiz Suite.

"E" Logo

This was going to be the new eBiz Suite logo for work, but it was rejected--not 'cause it was bad, but because for the product it wasn't workin' out. Perhaps this will resurface somewhere else in the future...