Stumble Finds

This video reminded me of when I was young and my father would ask me what I wanted for dinner. Being an indecisive child I would always respond with the thoughtless "I don't know" to which he would respond- "Well then well have a rubber band sandwich and make it snappy!" At the time this made me think of tiny band members made of rubber being demolished by my father's hunger for puns- I enjoy this visual more although the nostalgia makes it sweeter.

New layout!

I went ahead and gave this page a long overdue overhaul before I start bringing all of my images onto the page. I am also considering keeping this solely as a semi-professional blog and creating a Deviant Art account for an online profile. In keeping with my new motivation to be professionally aware through the internet I've also set up a specified professional networking profile through LinkedIn as way to promote and reach out. Recently I have rediscovered StumbleUpon and consider it a valuable waste of time and invaluable resource for inspiration and have added my profiles link of the side bar of favorites. I have also added Fab! to the list as a new place of internet inspiration.

Art from 2010-2011

Realized that I have not updated in quite some time and I should really start utilizing this blog more often to promote myself shamelessly. Since I have no motive to promote myself at the moment because I have no damn time for freelance work due to college, I'll just upload some of the things they have been keeping me busy with the past three years.

Drawing- Fall 2010- Crushed Paper Bag

I highly suggest this exercise for anyone who wishes to go out of there minds. :)








First project from my Illustration class

Chose to illustrate a "Hermit Rowboat"- see it?

Winter- 2011


A "mysterious" bathroom

Done in colored pastel pencils

Drawing I- 2010

Final Project for Photoshop

I decided to do the extra credit project and make the following photo into the younger looking version shown above. I started off by using the clone stamp tool as well as the patch tool to even out her skin tones and reduce wrinkles. I then used the brush as an overlay and brightened the colors of her hair and skin. After, I used the magnetic lasso tool to create sharper lines around the woman and pull the image onto a new canvas. I then used the liquefy filter to try and smooth out the image. I then used the smart blur filter to add a finished touch to her face. I used the Smudge tool for the smoother hair. To finish I used an overall blur to smooth outthe entire peice and added the color to the background.

Retouch Project

I started off this Retouching project by using the clone stamp tool, patch tool, and spot healing brush to decrease the amount of visible wear and tear to the original copy allowing the image to be free of creases. I then went into the brush tool, lowered the opacity, and selected the overlay option. I then selected my colors and added them to their appropriate place. I would change my opacity and color depending on the effect I wanted in particular areas such as the background that is actually an overlay of both a light yellow and bright yellow-green. I then used the crop tool to create a new edge. By changing the canvas size under "Edit" I was able to also create a new white boarder finishing it's more polished look.

Assignment 6- Take Pics

Panoramic Photo:

I began by going out side and taking seven pictures, unloading them to the computer. I then opened Photo shop and by using "photo merge" I was able to blend my seven photos together. I then used the crop tool to create clean edges. I then used the "lasso" tool to select areas of the new photo that looked a little awkward and played with saturation and color balance to smooth things out. I then used the blur tool to blur the edges where the individual images merged.

Assignment 5- Scanning

1. I scanned the woman from a magazine ad and used the magnetic lasso tool to take her out of the original ad. I then pasted in the jungle background as a replacement. I then used the text tool to create an ad for PETA.
2. For the second ad I decided to change the background again and go with an ad promoting travel to visit the Mayan temple and ruins of Central America so I put a temple in the background.