I had an opportunity to do some more graphic design work recently, for a small business out of Webb City, Missouri. They gave me this logo--and asked if I could do something to spice it up a bit. so after a bit of tinkering I came up with a few ideas, and sent them the following mock-ups:
they ended up asking me to do both of the last two, so after I wrestled them into shape in adobe illustrator I sent them off & collected my nominal fees.
I did a quick graphic design today. Here it is, along with the initial sketches.
planning doodle done with a ball-point pen on a scrap of paper: Quick mock-up done to get feedback:Inked images which I used as basis for my final design: Full final design, after I re-sized and aligned all the elements, added color and special touches in Adobe photoshop: Postcard image advertising the location:Grayscale version:a b&w version for miscellaneous purposes:
I've had a coupla graphic design projects recently, here are the results: some other time i may compose a post detailing the process from initial sketches to final products, but right now i'm feeling lazy, so this will have to tide you over...
Okay, not really, but I have certainly been slacking off in the visual department, mostly due to my being in Thespian Mode as opposed to DaVinci Mode. Last month I auditioned for a part in a local theater, and in preparation for that audition, I was spending more time brushing up my acting chops than I spent brushing paint on canvas or brushing eraser crumbs off the pages of my sketchbook. I did take the sketchbook to my audition to give me something to do in the time that I was not otherwise engaged, but ended up with only a couple drawings, as during most of my free time I chose to peruse a volume of the Complete Peanuts Collection I had brought with me. However, since then I have gotten to do a few pieces of "art," but mostly of a more graphical nature, in the form of some poster designs for a coffeehouse event that I am involved with in church.
Here then are those poster designs, as well as a sketch from the audition. yeah, I know, this is a pretty half-hearted attempt. I promise to do something better for next time!
a couple years ago, when I used to work at McD's, word somehow got around that i could draw (probably because of all the evil caricatures i did of managers, customers, and fellow employees), so one of the managers asked if i could draw some pictures to put on safety posters. these were the results.
I just finished making a 5-second animated logo for my video productions. I had the design in mind for a while, and just got around to putting it all together.
Here is the original sketch of the design, which was no bigger than maybe 3"x 2". I scanned it, blew it up to 8.5 x 10, redrew (partly traced) and scanned it. Then I tweaked it in a vector-based program, then souped it up in photoshop and added a pavement texture beneath it. Then I created each frame in photoshop, moving the lid and turning it, and finally, I assembled it all into a short animation. There are a few minor tweaks I need to make to the final animation, and I still have to record a couple sound effects, but it's pretty much in the can.
Here are some rough ideas for a graphic i'm working on--
the original line drawing:
colored in photoshop: just the hand as a b&w treatment: and just for fun, a bas relief filtered version: so, in the immortal words of that cultural giant of modern verbosity, Homestar Runner, "hey, guys, ha-whatcha teekanbout?"
-and asked if I could do something to spice it up a bit. so after a bit of tinkering I came up with a few ideas, and sent them the following mock-ups:
they ended up asking me to do both of the last two, so after I wrestled them into shape in adobe illustrator I sent them off & collected my nominal fees.
Quick mock-up done to get feedback:
Inked images which I used as basis for my final design:
Full final design, after I re-sized and aligned all the elements, added color and special touches in Adobe photoshop:
Postcard image advertising the location:
Grayscale version:
a b&w version for miscellaneous purposes:
I scanned it, blew it up to 8.5 x 10, redrew (partly traced) and scanned it. Then I tweaked it in a vector-based program,
then souped it up in photoshop
and added a pavement texture beneath it. 
Then I created each frame in photoshop, moving the lid and turning it, and finally, I assembled it all into a short animation. There are a few minor tweaks I need to make to the final animation, and I still have to record a couple sound effects, but it's pretty much in the can.
well i guess i'm pretty much done with this now... had to add a body to complete the figure.
