What's the point of all this? It's something of a collection of most of the "major" works that I've created since attending the university. Many of these works are old, and I take no shame in wishing to distance myself from them. It's much like those pimply teenage photographs, except these are actually my fault.
Calendar Assignment
These first works were done in an Illustrator class for a calendar project. These are placed in order for the events taking place in the pictures, but I actually created the fourth one first, then went back and created the first one in this list and moved forward from there. Go ahead and laugh at my rendition of trees in the final one.
Photoshop/Illustrator Creations
This is the banner for my Woods of Eternity blog. Why "Woods of Eternity"? It sounds cool. Why this header image? It looks cool. That's strong design at work, right there. The basics were made using Illustrator, then I touched them up significantly in Photoshop. |
Illustrator Class Assignments
Just some junk I made for my Illustrator class.
This thing was done even before the calendar assignment, and long before I wizened up by attempting to emulate Adam Phillips' fantastic landscape illustration technique. |
You may think that this one looks like crap, and you'd be right. What you wouldn't know, though, is that it was actually one of the more inspired works by the class. Take from that what you will. |
To be honest, I don't know what I exactly learned in this class. It more just challenged me to actually get around to completing certain assigned projects, rather than taught me any design techniques. In particular, I did a bit of digital painting, which I found that I greatly enjoy (in certain cases).
This first work was to create an advertisement poster. The idea had been to digitally paint the appearance of me being water, but obviously that didn't quite turn out. Oh, well |
This design was made as a come-uppance for a professor I didn't particularly care for in Introduction to Computers. The assignment was to create a website for an imaginary organization, and this was mine. I figured I'd wow with my awesome web design skills, but I still got a poor grade in that class. There is a live version of a sort. |
This website was made for a college radio comedy show with a tongue-in-cheek 50's flavor that I had planned but never got around to producing. The website itself isn't fantastic from a design standpoint, particularly not now, three years later, but it does portray the time and touches on the satire that was intended to be at play, so I suppose that in that sense it was a success. A live version is available for viewing. |
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