Words On Wheels

I made so many versions of this piece, I ended up submitting this one. It's actually very different from my initial sketch. There's empty space on the left for text.

Concept Art

I've taken two concept art classes at MICA, Concept Art with Aaron Yamada, and Adv. Concept Art with Sean Murray. I really enjoyed finding shapes and forms in the design process, and also developing concepts as a part of world-building.

I also looked at Dermot Power's work during the latter of the two classes, that's why I began using opaque brushes. Before I had a problem with my edges looking digitally murky, so I tried being more confident with my strokes. I still need to focus on details and what the surfaces are made of.

The rest are work done in Aaron's class. The work below uses transparent brushes in the beginning process. I think I'm getting closer to getting a balance of both methods. I also need to work on colors, because they seem washed out.

Exploring Media

I made title screens for an old tv show I used to watch, Dexter's Laboratory on Cartoon Network.

Christmas card design, it was actually our final during Fall semester.

Illustration for an album review at the Rolling Stones website for the Black Eyed Peas. I originally planned on doing this on a 3d program, but I don't have one so I painted it on photoshop. Fergie is the one with the body, because she's known for her body. I gave each member their own mark of identity.

We re-did a video game cover of our choosing. I chose Halo: Combat Evolved, favorite past time. I always thought the cover should have been more serious to reflect on the suspenseful plot.
We had to include a broom, dog, and radio antenna in the piece.
I learned a cool digital technique, combining 3D text from illustrator with photoshop.

My favorite illustrations because it was fun working with simple tools.

Used neocrayon and scratching techniques on transparency paper, then colored it on photoshop.

Early Installation

This was done in my Spring semester in 2009, it's the coolest thing I've done so far at MICA. I enjoyed the craft involved in the project, and it took a lot of planning and playing with materials to achieve my goal.

I hung 64 strings, each 10 ft long, on a gridded frame at 1 ft intervals (8 x 8 = 64). I placed dots of glow in the dark acrylic paint on the strings, to achieve the affect of a 3 dimensional star field. I used a black light to super charge the dots of paint (little fyi, black light makes glow in the dark objects glow really bright), and I blocked all outside sources of light (windows, doors, etc.) so when I turned off the black light, the only thing visible are the dots. It was a very neat experience to be in the room, and it captured my early memories of seeing countless stars in the sky. It made some people motion sick.