3D Coat Dino

Watch out Martin, I know you scare easily! I loaded a pre-made dino into the 3D Coat program and painted on a wrinkled texture. Then I made some blood drip out of its mouth and drew on some eyes. This program is pretty tricky to get the hang of and I accidentally drew on my model a lot while trying to move the camera around. I can see that there's lots of cool things you can do with this program, but I think it would take a whole class to really learn. I like the different textures and control you can have over the surface of your model better than the options in Lightwave, but, like I said, I felt clumsy while doing it.

I'm on fire!

I followed an online tutorial to create this image in Photoshop. I converted a picture I took to black and white then inverted colors. Then I used the wind filter to give it the streaky look and colorized diferent layers using blending modes to make it fire colors. Finally, I used the smudge tool to pull out "flames" and make it look more realistic. This was fun and pretty easy, though I had to use a photo with a lot of value range to get the detail in the end.

ZOMBIE!

Stormy Storm

A day to night photo with added rain and lightning effects

Day to Night

 

I used photoshop to make this picture look like it's at night. I know it looks fake.

Mental Health Flash Cards

Western State Hospital wanted some flash cards to facilitate communication with non-verbal or non-English speaking patients. I was assigned four phrases to illustrate and these are them. I've worked with the developmentally disabled so I tried to keep their particular needs and fears in mind. I like how my flash cards turned out and I think they communicate the phrases clearly. I made the graphics in Illustrator and laid them out with text in InDesign.

Sticker

I used shapes and the pathfinder tool in Illustrator to create this design. I will load it into a vinyl cutting machine and cut out the different elements in their respective colors (except the yellow part will be metalic gold). Then I'm gonna stick it on my car right next to the sticker from Chill Out Burritos in Santa Cruz that says "We Roll The Fatties".

Cell Shade

Pop Art Photo

Photoshop Brushes

I drew a picture of a whale using black and two gray tones then converted it into a brush. The gray tones are less opaque than the black so they show up as lighter versions of whatever color you choose (in this case blue tones). I made a starfish picture also using black and grays and converted that into a brush. I turned on scatter, size, rotation and hue variety so when you make a stroke with the brush it scatters about slightly different starfish. I like how my composition turned out, I was feeling nautical.

Illustrator Brushes

I created a scatter brush out of a spider I made then I created an art brush using lines to make a web-like effect. I think it looks alright but I don't know if it pulls off my intended effect.

SLAM covers

These are a couple of designs I'm entering to be chosen as the cover for SLAM. I used Photoshop and Illustrator to mix filters and colors on photos I took. Then I placed text and applied effects. I wanted to make the designs eye-grabbing and I think I succeeded especially in the duotone one. It's hard to pick between the two because I like how easy to read and recognize the duotone cover is, but I like the colors and composition of the other one.

Spiffy Graph

A fake graph I made in Illustrator then spiffed up using various 3D and gradient methods.

Airbrushing

The before and after of my airbrush job using Photoshop.