Grandmas House

8" x 10", printed on card stock.

Hidden away amongst the weeping willos is Gmas magical tower house. Fully equiped for her convenience with a working turbo lift for easy access to the upper levels.

Her two front doors face to the east to welcome the rising sun and on the opposite side of the house is a hot tub with an uninterrupted view of the western horizon for sunsets. Also coming out of the backside dormer is a large telescope for stellar enjoyment.

She has a small garden for fresh herbs and vegatables.

The house is fully self sustainable with tecnology not yet known to man... she really quite brilliant you know. ;)

Rowans Coupons!

A few friendly coupons I made for Rowan.

A few spreads from my completed magazine

Cover

Table of Contents

Spread 1

Tidbits Spread

Short Article Spread

t-shirt Designs

Magazine Mock Spreads

Little Red Riding Hood Spreads

The Trail

Little Red ...WTF!

WPA Inspired Poster

Poster Design

The objective for these posters was to design using grids focused on the main word, (Opera & Dance).

Personal Logo

GIA - text based form

Still a working progress..

Katrina

Zach

My Mum!

Rowan & Joe

Selene

Cameron

Danielle and the mountains

My Friend Danielle

Some Other Media

My first Design in college, Untitled:




A painting of Kirstin Dunst as Marie Antoinette:





Intaglio - The Battlestar Galactica 12 colonies emblem:



A sand sculpture that I did one day on the beach:

I have this bird thing going on lately... lol
When I finished this I thought it looked more like a logo. I wonder what it would be a logo for? :)

The Air Behind Birds

A simple book cover I made for a good friends book, The Air Behind Birds.

Composition Exercise Number One..

My very first project I ever did in any of my GD courses was Composition Exercise Number One.

Favorite thing to do... Is use the pen tool!

I love the pen tool. While I was doing the heraldry project I discovered how wonderful the Pen Tool really is. It makes drawing so much fun. When I made this tree,
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I was so amazed at how simple it was. The Image itself is very simple but it is one of my favorite. I think I'll make it my first tattoo!!!

Revised Heraldry

I think that this revised version looks way superior to the first attempt.

Xel's B Movie

Heraldry Happy Fun Time w/the Pen Tool

W00T! It's simple but beautiful. I drew the tree then scanned it into AI. I used the wonderful beautiful fabulous pen tool to trace my tree and moon. I used the pen tool to draw the shield, and banner. I drew one oak leaf scanned it in and you guessed it, traced it with the pen tool. Then it was as simple as shrinking the image down copy/paste many times to form the foliage.

Self Portrait

A horrible representation of David Hockney's work. No camera, only the PhotoBooth on the mac. :(

Logo Replica-Process!

Step 1: Having the original image
and trying to re-build the
shapes in the characters.









Step 2: Getting frustrated with the awkward
Circle. Finally I realized the


power of the
Pen tool.....duh!







Step 3: Things are coming alone nicely with
the pen tool. I am able to reshape with easy!











Step 4: Oh joy the circle in the a&b
are exactly the same! Can you say
copy/paste.. :D




Step 5: Making the inner circles. Note
that I am putting all my new shapes
into a slight transparency. Easier to see
whats going on and if I'm off or not.








Step 6: Ah, the fabulous C! Two perfect circles
and a simple rectangle. :D









Step 7: Another simple rectangle for the b.
This one has to be elongated a bit.












Step 8: Found out I had to warp the a circle a little more to add the rectangle.











Step 9: Adding the rectangle to the a!













Step 10: Making the big black circle.










Step 11: Almost done! Pulled original
image out of there. Now just
need to fix all the colors.










Step 12: Oops! need to make that rectangle
a little longer.








Step 13: ALL DONE!! Hooray!
Can you tell which one is
the Original?