Vectorized Self

The photo itself was taken by a friend of mine, Lee Kauftheil, with an infrared modified Nikon DSLR camera and a fish-eye lens. Vector traced by me between Photoshop and Illustrator CS3.

Random Drawing #2

At my last office job they had these slick uni-ball pens with a nice flow that cross-hatch in a way that reminded me of printmaking. This drawing was after I finally tracked down a box of them to play with.

They worked fine, but aren't waterproof. So word to the wise: I got lucky this time (not a few others), but remember to be careful about condensation on your glass/bottle when drawing with non-waterproof inks.

Random Drawing #1

Name is literal. It's a random drawing on a small piece illustration board. 2H/2B pencil and some black Micron pens.

Hulk's Coffee

If you can ignore the scale, you don't realize that's probably a 5 gallon cup of coffee. Except that I just I just told you of course.

Unholy Trinity

Yes, the name is a tacky pun on Masaccio's famous Renaissance painting "Holy Trinity", which must have seemed very clever to me 3-4 years ago. The final drawing is about the 3rd generation, drawn over layers of tracing paper for an intaglio project.


(Another preliminary drawing for the same project)

Steampunk Doodle

Taken from the olde sketchbook of random ideas with a dash of internet pop-culture.

Another piece from my tracing paper phase where I'd develop a drawing 3-4 times in pencil. Finding it a waste of not-that-cheap paper I couldn't ink very well, I wound up going back to 60lb sketch pads, 2B/4B pencils, Micron pens, and a scanner.

Alteration by Generation

The first painting was an experiment in landscape work. The source was a photo of an abandoned factory with some Photoshop work to blow the too-middled contrast. The composition wound up working as a photo, but being a miss on canvas, so the second one was made in response to that outcome and a desire for surrealism to pull further away from the source.

A third one was always, and still is, planned, but the one to three work break from the same subject has stretched out indefinitely so far.

2009 Calendar

Calendar project done in Illustrator. While a fun experiment for making 12 themed images, these are my favorite of those.

The inspirations came all across the board from comic books and a hybrid of Richard Amsel's "Barry Lyndon" poster and Saul Bass' poster for "The Man with the Golden Arm"--the latter seemingly a favorite of every design student to emulate at least once in their life.

The Chin

Pencil sketch plan for an unfinished vector piece. Worked better as a pencil drawing, so it's been on the back burner for about three years now.

Two Trees

A painting commissioned by a friend. The pencil sketch and the final image ended up being rotated different ways when displayed, though a clear one wasn't intended. Other elements were then altered when he needed it sanitized if he displayed it at work (he ended up not) and by me when color temperature was introduced.

Drawing: 8.5"x11", pencil on paper
Painting: 24"x48", oils on gessoed hardboard

Rock and confusion

After re-reading Frank Miller and Geof Darrow's Hard Boiled, I took a shot at capturing Darrow's style of blending frozen time with visible momentum.

Runner up business card

I designed a few smiley guys for the business card, this was the runner up. It was free-handed in Illustrator without any tracing. Not that that isn't obvious with the odd shapes, but still worth noting.

Melting

Pencil sketch shot at surrealism.

2B and 4B pencil mostly, probably some 6B at the end. Drawn on a 60lb. 9x12 sketchpad. Scanned, greyscaled and brightness/contrast adjusted.

Business card

A business card I designed for myself back in '07.

Manny Calavera Collage

This is a digital collage used as a template for a photo etching project. The printed form is around 6"x9" and colored with watercolor

Was displayed in SFSU's judged Stillwell show, FA06.

Mega Man

My parody of the box art for the US version of Mega Man by Capcom.