Fall Break Yields Piece.

Excuse the crude circumstances by which this was photographed, it is exceedingly difficult to photograph spray-paintings because of the strange way it glares and reflects lights and even shadows mess with the overall viewing of it. I think that ultimately, the only optimal viewing lighting is that of dull light, such as in the shade or at the ends of the day when the sun is going up/down. This one is getting submitted to the art exhibit, that's for sure. (10-18-08)

Buttons!

My newest button invention, done last night (10-29-08). These are representatives of the 3 types of text on the button.

Last Batch

12) This was my attempt at the whole "fire and ice" theme, so I tried doing an icy landscape with a frozen river or something with a strange looking moon/planet. Not my favorite

13) Look familiar? I thought it did too, when I was painting it, I had painted all these cards (can't remember if I did 12, though) outside my classroom at Alta, because I was running out of time and I decided I wouldn't waste a whole period just because I was doing spray paints, so I snuck them into school. There happened to be a sub that day, not that that would have allowed or prevented me from my plans, but I asked her if I could and I showed her the cards I had already finished, which impressed her to find that I had done them in spray paint (which is pretty darn sweet, I'll admit) and she let me leave the classroom and go outside to paint in the slightly rainy conditions, forcing me to paint underneath the classroom window because directly above was a slight overhanging roof that made a dry spot just big enough to place my styrofoam spray board with my cards to be painted. Anyway, when I came in and looked at the other cards I had done, I realized that I had done practically the exact same stinkin' card as this one, only the other one had a smaller moon/planet. I quickly traded one of them with the girl that wasn't there on trading day so no one else would see that I had made two very similar cards.

14) Cool color scheme, I guess, and nice triangular approach to composition. Triangle=dynamic.

15) I think either Eston or Bradley ended up with this one, if you knew either of them, you'd know that it certainly plays to their tastes.

16) I gave this one to Greta, my Italian exchange student as well as some others because I ended up with extras after trading day--the procrastinators didn't get them all finished, so I didn't get to trade with everyone I wanted to.

17) My last one. Good thing, too, because I was runnin' out of ideas.

10-Piece Assignment, And Here's 11 Images

Drawing I assignment: do ten 30-minute charcoal light-drawings.
1) outside me dorm on the side without the doors. Gave me the idea to grab a camping chair when I went home for the fall break. Done 10-15-08

2) Here we have the door-side of me dorm. I discovered that I love drawing trees with charcoal, as you'll see in my later pieces. Done 10-16-08

This is the imposter; it is not part of the assignment, but I wanted to be OCD in tendency by posting my work in order. I did this as a warm-up before tackling my two-day still life, which I finished today and it looks amazing (stay tuned to see it). 10-21-08

3) This is in the "rec room" of me dorm. I like to play pool, so this is my tribute, even though the table seems to bend. I did place the pockets in dynamically compositioned places, though. (10-21-08)

4) I hung out in the rec room and looked through the closets and found a cone and a volleyball. What else do you want? (10-21-08)

5) Still in the rec room. Decided to draw the stinkin' closet. (10-21-08)

6) We have a pumpkin in a basket on the table in the living room. Those are my toes at the bottom.

7) Panic set in on 10-22-08 when this was done, as my assignment was due the next day (today. Just kidding, though, I wasn't panicked. I'm always cool and collected.)

8) Also done on my dad's birthday. They're rocks.

9) The library, place of inspiration inside and out. 10-22-08

10) Decided that I could do this at 7ish, even though I didn't exactly take into account the fact that the sun goes down at night. Primped it up in the light of the FAC, but put in a good 15 minutes outside actually drawing the Toaster--that's what Loganians call this chapel. Maybe they're Loganites.

College Charcoals

(10-14-08)

My latest charcoal drawing (#3). I like this one because it is much more developed than my other two, plus I think I did a better overall job with placement, composition and accuracy.

(10-9-08)

My second charcoal drawing. This time we used a still life. I got a bit further along, but I think it was a good practice piece.

(10-7-08)

Me first charcoal drawing of college. Our class went out to the cemetery behind my dorm to draw. I think it turned out nicely--we weren't supposed to finish any of these, they're just for teaching us how to use the charcoal and technique that my professor wants us to use.

Graphic Alien

I only used four colors for this "portrait" and I like the line quality of everything. I think it's pretty good for just a random 45-min art thing. I just got bored of wasting my time so I thought, alien, and started drawing. Put a cool experiment with "scumbling" in the background--and it doesn't just happen to be the complimentary color of my subject. Don't let the nature of his alien-ness lead you to judge, he really is a kindly, thoughtful ole guy.

Art Exhibition Announcement Committee Poster Idea

I joined the Announcement Committee for the Undergrad Art Exhibition so that I can (possibly) get some of my art in. We met last night and I hadn't come up with any real ideas because, let's face it, it's hard to design art for art, but this girl came up with an idea about using Picasso-esque bulls (fitting since we're Aggies) and so we agreed, so she went to work fixing up her layout. We had the option of getting together another type of poster to make more varieties of images, so I decided to do this parody of a USU logo, put into Picasso style. You like?

Button Splashes

My new buttons for the new logos. The red/black is obviously for the DOA (9-24-08), the blue/grey is for the Business500 ( 9-25-08 ). I think they're lookin' pretty sweet. I'm amazing.

Sadness Is An Awesome Thing (In Art)

I really like the face on the bottom. It was a Sunday and I didn't have much to do, so I tried figuring out facial proportions after the disaster on the far left. I took a picture of myself, then drew the face to the top-right (and turned it into a boy face) and then decided I wanted to get some better emotion/expression from this, so I finally got somethin' right.

Biz500 Logo

Did these on the 22nd. Here's the logo for Biz500 I made for work--same story as my last post, but different site.

Site header

Section header

DOA Logo and Headers

Hooray for the DOA, the new site I'm working on. This time I got to choose the colors and create a brand-(pun intended) new logo. I came up with all of this today--I tried playin' with logo ideas yesterday, but none of them worked out. Here's my splash page (above) with varying sizes of the logo.

This is the header that will go at the top of the website (I'm not sure what the subtext will be, but I'm pretty sure I'll have to some in)

This is an example of the section headers in the site, just change out the words and you've got all the headers done! Note the color scheme is that of my absolute favorite mix of colors: Red, Black and White (which happened to be Alta's colors, but I'm in no way biased because of that...) and since everyone keeps bugging me about what my second-favorite color scheme is, I'll tell you that I love the blue and orange complimentary color scheme (which is technically a real color scheme because the Alta colors are just colors I love use together, whereas the blue and orange have a technical and defined term).

Continuing On With Artist Trading Cards

#7. Funny thing about this one, I did this one and I did another one (see number 13. [coming soon]) and once you see it, you'll understand. It was purely accident, so I quickly got rid of one of 'em to a girl that was gone on trading day so that no one else would realize what I had done. To fully understand, just remember to look for #13 when I post it in the future.

#8. I don't remember anything significant about this one.

#9. This one was modelled after a bunch of the ones on youtube with the whole grid thing. The city didn't turn out so great, but I did realize that I had a whole complimentary-color scheme goin' on, so that pleased me.

#10. All I can say is that I hate it.

#11. This once actually was the first one I did, but I originally painted it with acrylics, because I had a whole class to figure out what to do, and I obviously didn't have my spray paint with me because I think that it was the day we actually got the assignment. So I painted it first, then went back and spraypainted over it.

Sketch Book "Dump," As The BYU Bloggers Call It

Ahh! What is that hideous thing? Why, that's my blind-contour self-portrait I had to do for Drawing I. I do hope this actually gets my hand-eye coordination better, rather than just make me feel stupid.

Here's an older sketch book page from about two weeks ago. I drew this stuff on my way down to Sandy for the Labor Day Weekend. I was trying to figure out the whole web 2.0 designs that day and also just trying to come with ideas for quick logos. I did the self-portrait (basically my first ever) looking in the side-view mirror, because I rode in shotgun. Even though the dark shadow conceals a lot of my face/important features like my eyes, I think it has a stunning resemblance. I'm amazing.

Some Buttons

Here's my latest project (and comparison to the cake stuff I did this summer). It's a bunch of cool, web 2.0 looking buttons, yay! I made all the icons in Illustrator (except the ball and ?--[photoshop]--and the getting started button image--[bought by Syncnet, and I changed the color of the arrow]), and then created the rest in Photoshop.
These are for Syncnet's LCDEV website as part of the eBizsuite, because we're membership website experts. I think they are much better/more professional, which of course, they have to be, plus I might just be biased to the fact that there's no pink in these ones. I know there is an extra green on the last row, as I compiled them I realized I'd left out the forum button, but when I loaded it up and it was green, I realized that there's something amiss, and I'll probably get a call to redo yet another button...

This is what I did in the summer time for the cake decorating ideas website, pretty cool, I think.

Comparison

This post is basically for me, because I've developed a habit of sitting around going back and forth between these two so I can see how much more amazing the reinvented logo is.

Saturday Morning, What To Do...

Tired of watching dumb cartoons...TMNT is the only good one on anymore. this is a scene I came up with last night at the bonfire thing I had last night up at 2nd dam. I saw it walking back to the cars and I knew I had to paint it sometime, so here's a quick, rough, value study I did in Photoshop.

Needed somethin' else to draw after the value study, so I went out of my norm and tried my hand at a cartoon person. A fat cartoon person. I think he's a business guy, but I don't know. I probably won't take the time to finish his face, so that's why I'm posting him at this stage.

Logo Reinvention

I finally realized how weird the logo looked with sharp edges, so I put the darn thing in Photoshop, wonderful Photoshop, and erased the edges and fine-tuned the whole web 2.0 shiny thing. I think the small changes actually made it a stronger logo. Strange how that works.

This is the logo in action with the two possible sides it can go on with the syncnet text.

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.