Stapler!

This was a project for my 3D design class. I had to choose an object to build out of wire and it was supposed to be based off of direct observation and had to fill at least two cubic feet. Therefore I chose the almighty stapler.

Pretty much pulled an all-nighter last night, slept on the couch from 6:30ish-7:47, then went to the FAC, carrying this beast all across campus and getting dirty looks from practically everybody that looked my way. Now it's really hard to concentrate and when I look at the carpet I think I see pieces of wire all over--they're not real, they're not real, they're not real. I thought I did a slick job, though, and I've got the aching callouses to prove it.

Random Cartoons

Sat down to watch Jaws last night, ended up drawing these guys--more to come if I feel like it. They're supposed to be stackable like the bunch in the top left. I want to make a bunch of these random guys and put in some kinda cool collage thing--this style is something I've seen going around a lot in Graphic Design right now, so I figured I'd try out something different (I usually hate drawing cartoon things, but this was kinda fun).

Time For Change

I'm getting tired of this header now, so prepare for a new in the near future. It's still cool, though, so I want to keep it on here.

Quick Pics

Shoshone Falls, Idaho

Train at Golden Spike

Logo Concepts

These are for a new client of Syncnet's. Now that my time at Rivetal has ended, I'm switching gears back to full-blast-graphic-design mode. I wish I knew what I was doing, haha. Can't wait to get back up to school so I can get more efficient at all this.

Kinda Lame, But I Like The Colors

Playing with Painter X. Still have no clue what I'm doing.

Uintahs

Love this one, the lichens are so cool! (At least, I think they're lichens...)

Today I Made...

...a cool icon for default profile pictures (before someone adds his own picture). First Syncnet work done in a while.

Happy news, I got a ranking of 4th place in the contest, and here's proof. Hopefully it'll stay up there!

A Most Curious Contest. Hope I Win.

My first day at work, I was given a toy-bomb and instructed to make it into something for an office contest. So I made a Pyro-Bomb, but not before experimenting with another idea, as you can see below.

Here's my final product, I think it's pretty cool.

I had the idea to do a Wilson-Bomb after my pyro idea, so I figured I'd paint him on and see if I liked it too much to my other idea. Didn't like him too much.

Here's what I started out with. A smoker-bomb. Yeah, that's real cool :P.

It's A Numbers Game

If I can just get enough entries in enough contests, eventually, it's gonna start to pay off. Literally. In the mean time, I just need to do maybe a set or two everyday after work, yeah, that ought to boost up my chances and increase my skill, it really is just a numbers game. I don't play games I don't think I can win. Hahaha.

Denied

Well, I had high hopes for these, because I thought they were pretty cool, but I got a total, "not interested" rating for all these, not even a participation ribbon! See if I try to make money off a wine company again.

Logo Pitch

Another submission to the logo contest. It's so much fun, even if I'm not making much progress...

Impressions

I did this last Thursday. I had started a painting last year on this masonite board, but it was terrible and it started to bother me lately, so I took outside and spray-painted over it. Now I'm thinking I might--that's a big, big, might--enter it into an exhibition, since I need to start thinking about that stuff now. I decided I might call this one, "Impressions," because it sounds like I had a purpose/process for doing the thing, which always scores points in the art world. I've also considered using spray paint as my little niche in the art department, because it's fast, cool, and lots of other people don't know about it as an art form, let alone know how to do it, so it could be a way for me to compete with other people. We'll see...

Web design

Hot off the press, is my submission for the eBiz suite website page design. I think it's way cool. Sehr schick.

How I Spent My Saturday

More entries to logo contests. These were made on serious time-restrictions, 'cause I forgot about this company that I wanted to try a logo out with, so with 12 minutes left on the clock, I just submitted these two logos. They're supposed to look like those vault locks, because it's an investment/finance/insurance kind of company.
This one's the best of these two, but I'm not sure this logo is strong enough to win anything...oh well, they're kinda cool anyway, right?

Home Hunter Logo Possibility

Yet another logo entered into the contest, this one takes on more of the conept of an app or button, which should serve the company better than the other, since their product is supposed to be able to be used on one's phone.

Nemesis XG

Eines tages, gibt es einen Auto. Ein schoenes Auto. Es heisst, Nemesis, und es ist mein. Es ist super-schnell, und ist das Auto am besten! Haha, es tut mir leid dass mein Deutsch kaputt ist...

Logo Contest

I entered this logo into a contest, as I've recently found a website that companies can post a contest for a logo, and registered designers can then come up with ideas in the attempts to be ranked 1st, earning themselves at least $250. If I can start winning, maybe I will be able to continue goin' to college...:D

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...