One of my Graphic Design Workshop assignments involved reworking a few earlier projects. My original Hot, Cold, Wet, Dry project was a collage piece from my very first design class. It was made with bits of magazine and rubber cement which has now yellowed. It was fun to rework this project, and significantly easier than cutting and gluing tons of magazine bits to paper. Class: Graphic Design Workshop Professor: Jauneth Skinner Tools: Adobe Illustrator
My friend AnnaMaria and I were tasked with revamping the JSU Visual Arts Society logo. This is the design that was selected to replace the original logo pictured below. Go Team Awesome! The original logo.
Surreal Landscape, Digital Painting | Fall 2009 Class: Adv. Imaging Professor: Doug Clark Software: Photoshop This digital painting was made for part of my final project Disconnected From Reality. The idea was to place photographic cutouts into illustrated environments to portray a sense of isolation and disassociation.
Beyond the Sea was inspired by a song titled The Iron Sea by Keane. I wanted the words to have a handwritten look so I wrote it out and scanned it into the computer. I duplicated and layered the text onto a photograph I took of the ocean in St. Augustine, Florida, and set the blending mode to screen so my original black text would appear white.
One of the projects in my Digital Imaging class introduced us to using scanners as a means of creating art, aka scanography and scanner photography. The extremely shallow depth of field and flat plane create a really interesting look. These three images didn't make the cut for my portfolio but I thought they were fun. Check out Scanography for more scanner art samples. Snake with Flowers, 2009 The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, 2009 Falling Baby, 2009
I love dragons, and mascots are fun, but this was a tough project. My drawing skills are more than a bit rusty and drawing a dragon was a bit more difficult than I expected, but this turned out okay. Dallas Dragons, 2009 Class: Graphic Form & Illustration Instructor: Phil Kesler Assignment: Redesign a dragon mascot for a high school. (Dallas Dragons)
Two of my pieces were accepted into Miniworks 2009, a digital photograph of a Dandelion and a watercolor painting of my cat Peco. Dandelion | Digital Photography Peco | Watercolor Several of my classmates were also accepted into the show. AnnaMaria got three pieces in and one of her pieces was selected for the JSU President's Award. Very cool.
