Subway Series
Scratching an itch to create by doing little projects – this one was completely digital. I really should get myself a stylus someday – my mouse work is still a little shaky. Also wanted to practice rendering different textures – from skin to the leather jacket to the tiles on the subway station.
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Tags: arts, illustration, sketches
Real Steel
Inspired by the robot-smashing movie, I dug back into my childhood for two unlikely combatants – the robots from a couple of religious(!) cartoons. It was, more than anything, an excuse to revisit them and practice some digital coloring techniques.
Also, it would have been a helluva fun robot deathmatch.
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Tags: arts, cartoons, illustration, sketches
EnergyOpt Logo
I was tasked to design a logo for a company called EnergyOpt, a company that focused on energy portfolio management.
Granted I knew nothing about energy portfolio management (and I still don’t), but I took my graphical cues from the “energy” part of the name, and that seemed to work well. I also knew I wanted to give them a variety of different looks, including formal and corporate (the top study), clever and modern (the middle study), and fresh and exciting (the bottom logo).
I found that mixing capital and small letters disrupted the logo studies too much, as I thought the “Opt” part of the name was too short, and capitalizing the “O” was too jarring. To work around this, I used different colors to separate the two words.
They eventually chose the bottom study, with some slight variations. The final design can be seen in action at their website.
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Tags: EnergyOpt, freelance, logo design
Dad & Daughter Jam
Inspired by Dave DeVries’ The Monster Engine – where he took kids’ drawings of monsters and made them realistic – I worked on a couple of my (then) three-year old daughter’s pieces, more as a creative exercise than anything (plus my daughter was thrilled to see the finished products). The original pieces were drawn by my daughter with crayons and/or colored pencils. I then scanned them in and played with them using Photoshop. The above picture was one of her random doodles, while the one below was actually a school project.
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Tags: sketches
Princess
This was the cover image for invitation to my daughter’s princess-themed birthday party. We also created an animated GIF version for sending out via email, although the animation was limited to twinkling stars in the sky. This was hand-drawn and inked, then scanned in and colored digitally with Adobe Photoshop.
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Tags: sketches
