Sorority Anti-Hazing PSA Illustration

Here's an illustration of a sorority girl that I did for an anti-hazing public service announcement. We do a lot of simple vector-y illustrations here at work because most are used to be animated in flash. It would be fun to drum up some work that allowed us to do illustrations with more texture and depth. For now, we'll just have to work on some of those outside of work.

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Grisette Logo

Recently I've been dabbling in t-shirt screen print design. Mostly I've been putting designs together for specific events, but I also have quite a few little designs that I created just for fun. I thought I might try and take them around to local boutiques to see if there is any interest. I figured I should put them under some sort of name or label, so I decided on the name "Grisette". There were several aspects of the term that appealed to me and seemed to fit with the type of designs that I am producing. Here's a draft of the logo that I'm playing with for the label. Hopefully soon I can put together a few experiments with my own screen here at home. The process is so interesting to me. It'll be a tight squeeze trying to do anything in the bathroom downstairs, but we'll see how it goes. If nothing else, it will give me a fun project to work on once it starts getting cold outside.

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Old Pencil Drawings

Another area of the old HD contained a few pencil drawings of my family that I did many moon ago and the tea diffuser I did in metals and jewelry making. The roof is a lid that lifts off so that you can insert the tea leaves, then you place the tea diffuser into an entire pot of tea. The tea diffuses out of the carvings on the side that were made with a very tiny little coping saw.

Here's a more recent sketch I did for an art swap we had at work.

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Old School Work Archives

Very old Photoshop work. (Photoshop airbrushed illustration of Edgerin James, an airbrushed illustration of a girl viewing the streets of chicago from her car window, a collage design using some photos I'd taken around Lafayette, and a scientific illustration of a garden spider)

Old segment intros I did for a college show I worked on called CG-TV. They were created using Illustrator, 3D Max, and After Effects.

An old flash project I worked on for ITaP one summer. Created the characters and animation using Illustrator and Flash.

Tonight I found my old external hard drive from school. I had to search through boxes of cables to find a power supply and cable to hook it up. I found some of my first photoshop projects, an old ITaP flash project, and a couple of little animated intros that I did for this computer graphics tech tv type show we did back then (You can see Alex and Kindari as hosts at the very end of the Tech spot intro). It is so embarrassing to look back at most of this old stuff, but it's all part of the process so we cant just pretend it never happened! Although, I'll admit, there are definitely things too terrifying to see the light of day that will remain on the hd for the sake of anyone actually viewing this blog.

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Armadillos are fascinating!

They jump straight up in the air when they get surprised! Unfortunately this seems to be a cruel involuntary defense mechanism to give a creature who needs to cross busy intersections. Poor lil fella.

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Lebfest '07 T-shirts in Action

Last weekend marked the 2nd annual Lebfest. Around 60 of us gathered in the "Friendly City" of Lebanon, Indiana to celebrate Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Friendliness. We gathered beneath the friendly city water tower for opening ceremonies then competed in sports at the park, hung out, challenged each other to ridiculous competitions, and partied until the wee hours of the morning. We split into two teams that honor the two most popular forms of lawn ornamentation embraced by the city, the Porch Geese and the Garden Gnomes. As explained below, the t-shirts were designed to capture the energy and the "fest" aspect of Lebfest, while at the same time highlighting the team mascots and over-all spirit of patriotism that the town of Lebanon (and our beloved festival) prides itself on. Here are some shots of the shirts in action at Lebfest '07.

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Aquaphobic Octopus or Supersoaker Sniper

Ok.... so the title is a groaner and could use some help, but here's a little colored pencil/sharpie drawing I threw together for an art swap we did here at work. I was in the mood to do something semi-colorful on a nice dark deep colored paper and this is what it evolved into. I love very organic twisty imagery and octopus legs just sort of formed from my squiggles as I was planning it out. Before I knew it I had a very terrified looking octopus and ended up adding the little fishy as his aggressor. The paper was textured, so I decided to work with it and see what kind of result I could get using the textured side. I couldn't quite get the colors of this scan representative of the original, but oh well, close enough.

Everyone who participated in our art swap brought in a piece of art. There was a ton of variety from quilts, to photography, to paintings, to re-purposed ready made art, to quick character sketches. We all drew numbers and swapped based on what we drew. It was a lot of fun, I ended up with a very cool "burner" that Dan did, and Frank Tai got this piece.

Other old sketches.

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