letter D stop motion

This was fun....

final heraldry

by the end i added many of the symbols from the tlingit tribe that is also from Juneau Alaska. i also added the bigger dipper which is the state flag of Alaska.

sorry i wasn't able to get rid of this stupid blue line... i dont know how it got on here or how to get it to go away... sorry

i put the one of the hands form my charcoal drawing pointing to the capitol where i am from...

I drew this guy up really quick... it symbolizes my life the most and what keeps me going in the winter...snowboarding!!!

I traced the part of the drawing that i wanted to use and put it into a square... 
 I started to correct some of the errors that i had in the charcoal drawing using the burn and dodge tool. 
Well, i started off with these two drawings. This first one is all pencil and the second one is charcoal... 

Hockney inspired mountain biking collage.

At this point i was trying to clean up the image getting as close as i could to teak... by now i have over a hundred layers. 
I googled work of David Hockney trying to get an idea of what kind of work he does so i tried to design a scene behind the bike shots... 
Luckily a week before this assignment I was able to take some sequence shots of my friend Teak... i showed him this wall-ride near my house that i had been eye-balling for a year and this day was perfect. at this point this image isn't like David Hockney at all... i simply cropped images of the sequence shots that i liked and tried to make them flow together...
At first I just wanted to get some of the techniques down and figure out how I wanted to select my individual pictures.

1st assignment from FlickR

For this assignment we had to choose letters to make rad patterns in an attempt to design great wallpaper images... so here is my work...

My Letter Queen

Letter R broken up 

G monster pattern

Letter R Highlight

First is the research... random wallpapers that i found online....

IBM... using the pen tool in illustrator

For this logo project i had to redesign the classic IBM logo that we all are familiar with.  Its not the most interesting design, but obviously it has worked  for IBM... The design has change a bit from when the company first started  but for the most part it has stayed the same throughout the years. 

The first thing I did was trace the I and the B  the original font is called city medium, but since i didn't just want to type "IBM" and then use the scissor tool because that was the last project.  The hardest part about this whole process was finding a IBM logo that wasn't to pixelated... so finding out exactly where to trace was very complicated... I had to lighten the image so i could figure out where the pixels started/ended. I also found it helpful using all the ruler and grid that Illustrator had to offer.

After I traced the I and the B i using the rectangle tool with the color white to make the streaks going through the I and the B, I also shaved the I and put two big squares using the same technique.  You can also see how i lightened the original making it easier to trace.

I Traced the M, filled it blue, and extended my lines from the I and 

the B  through the M ......and BAM... DONE... I know it doesn't look like much but its very simple design that works well. 

This is some of Tibor Klamans actual work...

Second page of the postcard... my reflection of Tibor Kalman...