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Infographic

Infographic Project-
I did this school project before learning InDesign. I used movement and color unity. If I can find the original file I plan on fixing things that I now know are not correct.

After Effects Projects

After Effects Final Project

Final project in Digital Video 1 class. We were given a few assets and could use royalty free images. We were to make a 30 second commercial for Seminole State College with a time was constraint of 2 hours. Within the two hours we had to plan, find assets and edit video and sound.

Workflow Project
I had to adjust the preview image size of the link because there was an embedding issue. Blogger was cutting off the entire right side of the actual video.

Green Screen and Masking Project
In this project there were two assets. One asset was the woman speaking on a green screen. The green screen was partially cut off. The other asset was the sports background. I had to fix the green screen mistakes and incorporate the sports background. I then had to use key frame timing to set the texts as she said them.

Drawing 1

To get better at my designs I took a drawing class a couple of semesters ago. Our final project was to create a series of five drawings that had a theme. The theme I chose was idioms.  The rest are drawing assignments from class that we did when we learned a new technique. I learned to like drawing again. The class really helped out when I came to do rough drafts in my designs. If you notice a bit of warping.  None of these are scans. I just took a photo of the drawings to document them.

Piece of Cake

Couch Potato

Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk

Long in the Tooth

Walk a Mile in Another Mans Shoes

 Ashley's Camera

Dock Shoes

Shading Project

Downtown on Brown

Brunch at Eola Wine Co.

Prints

 

Capt. -Zinc Plate Acid Etching

 

Vixen-Dry Point Etching 

Razzle Dazzle- 6 color Linoblock Print

 

Sparrow- Woodblock Print

Owl-Woodblock Print

Restorations
I started doing freelance photo restorations in 2003 and continue to do them when I am in between jobs or need extra income. Restorations is what got me interested in Graphic Design in the first place.

Plane Restored
I wanted to colorize the plane photo without making it look too fresh. I used the water color brush tool to get this effect. CS4s new clone stamp preview option is very helpful in this project.

Plane Original
When I originally saw this photo I was pretty excited to get to work on it. I enjoy working on photos that are this heavily damaged. Watching the image come to life as I progress is really interesting to see.

Family Restored
Old Photographs are very important to the memories of the people in them. Restoring old photographs makes me feel as if I am helping to restore old memories. I think that is why I like it so much.

Family Original
The cracks, water damage and ink on the photo are sometimes pretty easy to fix , but other times they come across someones face and it becomes a bit more tricky to fix. Seeing the finished product after coming across these challenges gives me an accomplished feeling.

Logos

Raising Brand Logo- I designed this logo for a fictitious design company. I really like the colors I went with on this one. I wanted to be sure that the logo would translate well to black an white. as you will see in the second image.

Kyle & Son Logo- My brother owns a small business and wanted me to make fliers for him so he could get more work . His previous fliers had clip art on them so I whipped him up a new one color logo.

Self Projects

Here are some random things feel free to print them out for your friends and lovers.

 "Keep It Green"

 

"Really Always" 

Work for Rockn' Joe

I work at a rock and roll themed coffeehouse called "Rockn' Joe".   We started some event nights to get people interested in coming into the place and seeing what we have . Here are some designs that  I've done for those event nights . I assure you there will be more of these but here are a few.

 Open Mic Night Flyer

 Guitar Hero News Paper Insert 

Vinyl Nation Art Exhibit Flyer 

     

Smoothie and Whammie Menu

Guitar Hero Night Flyer

Tutorial Assignments from 2008

For homework we had to pick a couple of online tutorials and follow directions. There isn't a lot to say about these except the for the "Schwinn It".

"Schwinn It"

The lines made me think of the racing scene in "Tron" so i added a guy racing on his bike. I had also been saying that cheesy phrase for days hoping it would pick up, it didn't.

"Deathmites"

This one was pretty interesting to make. It was the first time I had a reason to select a row of pixels. I stretched them and then used transform perspective. After that layer masked the image and faded out the vanishing point. The crumpled paper effect is from using multiply layer effect.

"Vintage Vespa Ad" 

This tutorial showed how to create vintage effects such as grainy film lines and the bursting star effect.
The original tutorial had a Ford Mustang on it but I chose to use a Vespa. I chose the Vespa because I used to have a Silver 1979 P200e that was stolen. I miss that thing so much!

Almost up to date.

I have a couple more things to post until the blog is current. Here are some random things I have found on my HD. Next up is more graphic design work. "Spaced Out"- 2009


"Squids" - 2009

"Furries and Flurries" - 2009


I took this photo of my friend Cindy during the filming of a movie we were in 2006. I can't take credit for the make-up but it was a really great shot. She had a cigarette in her hand that I photoshoped out. The name of the movie is Automaton Transfusion written and directed by Steven C. Miller.


One of my favorite pieces. I've sold two of these and put the last one in my storage room. The project was fun to do and the show was really great.

I made this shirt shortly before the Overspray Art show at the Orlando Brewery. I used the same stencil as on the suitcases.
This is the only photo of the 7 foot paper mache sculpture I made for the Cut & Paste art show. My friend Suzy took the photo. This was during pre-beard trimmer phase of my life. The sculpture was in the shape of a girl peg in the game of "Life" and was made of a calculus math book. The title was "Two Things I Will Never Understand"

Student Design Work

I am currently going to college for Graphic Design. This is a posting of the stuff that I currently have done for school projects. I enjoyed working on all of these projects. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do.

"Wake Up!"
Wake Up! was created for a Layout and Design class we had to create unity using many elements. I had a lot of fun creating this project. I wanted to create a napkin that had a coffee stain on it so that the customer would have to do a double take and wake up.

"Metro Zoo Ticket"
This was also a unity project but we were limited to only using black and white. I had fun using negative and positive space. I used the animals and African elements to bind the image together.

"Sprawl"
I created the piece of multiple images for and annual exhibit held at my college. It was displayed for several months. It was also published on the degree program website. It represents the effects of urban sprawl on homelessness and poverty. I also expresses the line that people use to withdraw themselves and the generosity towards their fellow man.

"The World( is your canvas)"
This came from a project where we had to use the same 3 elements to create emphasis. The World uses repetition to create emphasis on the shoe and then back to the other elements.


"Break it Down"
The objective of this project was to create a design using emphasis on one of three objects using placement. In this particular design the object is the Converse logo. The design starts at the bright color square and leads you through the visual hierarchy. The design is unified by the colors and break-dancing elements, such as the cardboard, dance steps and hand movements.

Paintings 2007- Present

These are all pretty low-res images until I take new photos. I got a little better with shading and spray paint. My favorites are "Whoot Done it?" and "Falling Bunnies". "Killer Robots!" was commissioned as a gift for a member of the local band "The Killer Robots!"

"Transdimensional Bunnies"-2008


"Falling Bunnies"-2008


"Blue Tooth"-2007


"Whoot Done It?" - 2007


"Killer Robots!"-2009