Waking Up is Hard to Do

Turn my head and back to bed with no delay, cant be bothered by the phone ten times a day, why get up my morning doesn't start til' two, forget reality, waking up is hard to do. . .

North West / Washington State Design

Found a drawing that I did a few months ago that resembled what you see below. Thought the idea was good so I revamped it a little and threw it into illustrator and photoshop. Hope you like it. Oh and maybe this will see a T-shirt some day, who knows.

Turtle Back

Mr. Turtle here just stepped out of a sea of splashy-splashy wetness and onto your computer screen. So now what are you gonna do?

Odd Face

Keith Negley Response

Wednesday night was graced with the presence of renowned editorial illustrator Keith Negley. From his works with New York Times, Business week and many others Negley has come to be known a one of the leading digital artists in his field.

            As Negley explained in his talk much of his inspiration comes from the articles he is commissioned to design for. Working almost exclusively in metaphorical images Negley pokes at issues of politics and economics. Though all of Negley’s work is digital he often draws inspiration from his roots as a screen printer, utilizing textures and effects in his work that form a more organic feel to the images. Rather than drawing from his environment or life experiences as with the artists in Art City Negley works predominantly from necessity and restrictions imposed by his clients. Keith works in a field that is less about self-expression and more about communicating an idea successfully and in a creative way.

            Often forced to work in a limited color pallet Negley explained that he thrived off of muted colors as well as tints and shades that reflected on his love of vintage posters. His color palate also drew from his interest in pushing his own limits of creativity, by using only two or three colors he told us, he was able to force his designs to work through unique avenues: utilizing form, line and negative space in non-traditional ways.

            All in all Negley’s presentation was highly inspiration, lending advise to aspiring artists and showing us a glimpse into an elite field of artists who have to push the boundaries of creativity every day they work. 

A Twist on My Elephant

Just messing around with my original design. Tweaked the hue and played around with reflection / rotation -- I think I like it.

Typography Composition

Here is another set of compositions, this time using letters instead of circles. Behold

Composition Assignment

 

In my Digital Imaging class I was instructed to create a number of thumbnail compositions using only the ellipse tool and the colors black and white, above is my take on the assignment. 

After creating the thumbnail compositions we were asked to pick one that we particularly liked and turn it into a full fledged illustration. We needed to be careful not to lose the original composition in our new image which basically meant transferring the circles and negative space into recognizable objects. I decided to create an elephant spraying water out of its trunk -- no particular reason why. 

Egon Schiele Copy

In addition to the previous post we were also asked to replicate an Egon Shiele painting titled Lyric Poet. Above is shown my interpretation of the original work.

Illustrator Painting Copies

For the past few periods in my Digital Imaging class we have been working on copying famous paintings in Illustrator. I decided to pick a Wassily Kandinsky painting titled Composition III, above is shown the comparison between the original (left) and my copy (right).