Lorax

I created this one entirely in Adobe Illustrator. Everything is hand made except for the lorax himself who I just ended up using the live trace tool on and essentially converted into an ink format.

Cake Sprinkles

Took the original image of magnified sprinkles and added some filters, glow enhancements, and filled the gaps with a unique brush. Just a random edit.

Other Edit

This is an edit I did with a friend. The original had an awesome looking background of different plants and I thought the comic/digital look would be fitting.

Painting

For this assignment I chose a picture I took last year of a car that has somewhat grown into the land around it. I chose to overlap the picture using various paint brushes, instead of deleting the original layer and only using the part I manually painted. I tried to use the different brushes for the effect of a different texture (metal, leaves, etc.). I'd say I'm satisfied with it although there are quite a few little pieces that could of used more time, but overall I thought the outcome was up to par.

Art Posters

Inside Out

This is batman, mixed with Christian Bale. Say hello to him

Here is the cumulative project. All images have either drop shadow or a black outer glow to create unity. The background was originally a gradient although I painted over it with brush splatter.

Kaleidoscope

I found my own tutorial for this one so it might not look like the others. Nevertheless, the original picture was melting mushrooms and I put a smaller copy in the middle.

Color Wheel

For this project I used a gradient background with other edits to that included. The spots were made with some variations to the paint tool (hue jitter, scattering). The nautical stars all contain a fractal design and these were edited with filters as well. Finally, I added shadows with motion blur as a final touch.

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I was leaning towards something from the art world on this one and so I went with the beloved Louvre. Mainly added an outer glow to the glass structure and divided the pond and sky with black and sepia, respectively. Diffuse glow also was added to the water. Overall, I went for a simple yet structured design.

The picture above is taken from the Crown Fountain at Millennium park in Chicago. The structure is composed of 2 glass brick structures containing LEDs which create the image of a human face that rises 50 feet high. The artist was to be chosen by means of a design competition and the decision was made to commission Jaume Plensa, who is from Barcelona. He's been creating public commissions in Europe and Asia since the 1980s, although this was the first one he's done in the U.S.

Plensa is also known to incorporate light sources into his work as well as including aspect of dualism, which is seen here with the addition of 2 structures. When asked about what he thinks about public projects, he responded, "It's not just a geographic area, but a place where people do something just by passing through or relaxing or eating. Public spaces are an expansion of your body, your home. They are another circle."

Custom Chair

I searched for abstract backgrounds to put on the chair. I used shadow on the panels to give an established look and also to make it look less rough around the edges. I had some hard times with the shadow...

9 X 9 Portrait

No particular theme I stuck to in this one. The borders I felt had a rough, kind of graffiti look.

Midterm

Went for the abstract approach

4 Part Project

I was feeling a cosmic theme for this one, so I merged that background with a gradient to get it to look more like a galaxy. The object that was manipulated is a 3D render created with a C4D program (I didn't make it) and coupled with different filters, as well as shadow and glow.

Visual Puns

The project was to create 4 visual puns that give a literal view of some words.

Silhouette

For the cheetah theme I found a pattern and applied it to the grass brush. I felt the African sunset was appropriate and it fits well.

As for my portrait, I added the mars planet looking thing and used the liquify tool to create the illusion of movement. The brush tool was used on a very light opacity and then blurred to get the blue green effect around Earth. Finally, the Earth's hue was altered slightly and sharpened.

Crazy Combos

This project specified an animal or object to be combined with another animal and to show these figures as a whole. I used shadows to create more depth and a sense that everything belonged in that environment, as well as adding some darkness for better blending

15 Green Things Project

The assignment was to create one composite picture using 15 elements. I approached it by using 2 pictures for the main background and then integrating the other pictures into the environment in an abstract fashion. I put it together based off of whatever came to my mind first.

This work deals with using different layers. I tried to go for the most abstract design that has the ability to catch an eye because of its colors, my inspiration being a poster advertisement. I also used shadow and glow on some objects for a more defined look.

Welcome

Welcome to my Portfolio!

Here you'll find a variety of different images from my digital imaging class. For the most part I like to keep a modern element and a clean concept to my images.