Batman Pop Art

I went with a dark batman theme, using the different colors found in the comics. Using different gradients and rising sun brushes, I made it all together with the batman symbol and rays of light extending outward from it.

1 Word Text Illustration - Hotel Rwanda

An obvious theme that came up in this movie was the courage that was brought to save thousands of lives.

Hotel Rwanda Movie Poster

Shuttle

Just some side work. Took a regular picture of the shuttle launch and made it extravagant.

Hands

Instead of more collage-based look, I decide to add in a bit more unity by making the hands revolve around the center. Used different colors for diversity, with all hands reaching for the same desire. Equality.

250 Years of Charlottesville

I incorporated various memorable locales in Charlottesville. From left to right; Venable Elementary, Downtown Mall, UVA Rotunda, Pavilion, Monticello. I made the pictures fit more seamlessly by using a rough eraser on the sides. I figured that the blue ridge mountains were the perfect background since they literally are the backdrop of Charlottesville and all the pictures are set at the base, further relating to the literal location. I made a contrast of the lightly colored "250" with the bold "historic Charlottesville" text. Finally, I made a slight black gradient at the bottom to cover up any sharp edges.

Book Cover Assignment

For this piece I first created a custom shape and used the direct selection tool to get the shape exactly how I wanted it. Ultimately I scoured some websites for the high quality images and inserted them accordingly, having to cut images to make them fit. Finished up with an outer glow on the edges of the shape and curved title letters.

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.