The Artist's Bio

        Before this semester I mostly focused on pencil and paper or paint on paper. I would occasionally take pictures and make things such as paper models of cartoon characters. My illustrations would have a mix between realistic and japanese anime, this is most noticeable when looking at portraits of strangers. I also dabbled with painting cartoon characters on children's furniture. Another medium I worked with was glass mosaic on lamps. When the lamps are lit, there would be a colorful display of lights that would project to the walls and ceiling.
        During this semester of college I took too art classes. One of the classes was Computer Graphics. In this class I learned how to work with a tablet and Adobe Illustrator. This is where my style changed to illustrations that focused on curved and roundish lines. This is also where I learned how to use color. I learned how to draw the shadows of tea cups and other objects, I also learned how to color things in analogous, complimentary, and monochromatic color modes.
        Another class I took was Digital Imagery. In this class we started off with learning how to use the basic tools of photoshop. I created self portraits, Montages, edited the effects of pictures I took with my own camera. One major thing we learned in the class was how to restore old and extremely damaged photos. We also learned how to use Corel Painter and a bit of web design.
        To sum up, over the time my art mostly consisted of medium on paper with the occasional photography. On the other hand, ever since this semester I've mostly been focusing on art on the computer.

Top Ten

This is a compilation of the top ten illustrations done in Adobe Illustrator during my time in the computer graphics class. They show variations with brush strokes and/or color.

Reflection Off The Screen

How Its All Made

Psychedelica

This is a book that I created. The images inside were made by using either Photoshop or Illustrator. The book itself was created with adobe InDesign. This book is a compilation of works by me in the computer graphics class of Saint Xavier University. 

Teapot variations

These variations are of the original Coffee cup image. In class, we learned how to select different strokes and change the design of them. We also learned how to change the color setting.

Final Variations

These are the final two versions of Groovy Juice

I learned from the critique that Groovalicious tweak was the bast font to go over the rainbows. I also filled the empty space with white to make it more readable. I also added the green hills to give it more of a hippy and nature like feel to it. Another thing I added was the "drink responsibly" text at the bottom right corner informing people that this is not a beverage for people under the age of 21. I also made two pictures to try out some different Ideas such as the color of the logo on the bottle, the clouds, and the gradient vs the psychedelic design on the bottle.  I added a fill to the clouds on one picture to give it a realistic feel to it. The second picture has an outline of the clouds to make it seem more like wall paper.