Jon Measures appreciation post

This one of my favorite pieces by artist, Jon Measures. I encourage everyone who is in digital art to check out his website, which is on the right of my homepage. He is most known for his digital work which he also paints on. It could be described as cubism, although he doesn't describe himself as one. He thinks of his work as snippets of time in an urban setting. I like to think of it as walking through the city and taking several pictures. At the final work of art is all of them molding together into a shape, like the above image. Very interesting to look at.

Dan Quintana appreciation post

you would think, at first glance, that these beautiful images have been photoshopped..but they are actually oil paintings by artist, Dan Quintana. Ever since I saw him on instagram i've been obsessed with him. I love his style and subject matter. Being a portrait artist myself, and a fan of fantasy, I am in awe of his work.

The most handsome drowned man in the world'

THIS...is my final for photoshop class. It is suppose to be my rendition of the story 'the most handsome drowned man in the world'. I wasn't too familiar with photoshop going into this class, but I kind of surprised myself with this last assignment. It came out better than I expected it to. i feel like I'm much more confident in working with photoshop now, especially when it comes to masking objects. but the whole printing situation kind of ruined the class for me, I found it remarkably boring but I am taking a print production class next semester so I think i better get used to it.

illustrator packaging design

This was for my packaging design assignment for my illustrator class.  I chose to make a box for paintbrushes. I'm not particularly fond of the design, but I think it was a good experience to do the act of printing it out and folding it up. It came out a little flimsy but it was my first mock up.

Illustrator cityscape

This cityscape was one of my finals for my adobe illustrator class. It took a long time but I think it came out pretty good. I have a huge print of this hanging up in my room now. the assignment was suppose to be about perspective, and since I already took a class in perspective, this assignment was relatively easy for me.

illustrator symbols

These are symbol designs for my adobe illustrator class at OCC. The assignment was to create symbols for different things e.g. car, phone, smoking, no smoking, food and drink, etc. This assignment helped me think minimally and simplistically. 'The best symbols are usually the simplest, which everyone can understand easily'.

illustrator characters

These are from a assignment in Illustrator and computer graphics, at OCC. This is the first assignment I had and my first go at Adobe illustrator. The assignment is called character illustrations. The top left is called 'fanny the fish girl', the top right is 'couch potato', the bottom left is 'gamer boy' and the last one was optional, I chose 'ruby, the next chicken in line' (to get slaughtered).