Flying through Color Space: Color Management Presentaiton

I'll be giving a presentation tomorrow on color management at BYU. It will be at 11am in A550 of the HFAC. Basically color management is used to get colors to display and print correctly on computers. Hope you can make it.

Alice in Wonderland Cover - with Cheshire Cat Smile

Final Version of Alice In Wonderland Cover

Just finished this cover for Alice in Wonderland for my narrative illustration class. I love the idea of having this book just smile at you from a bookstore shelf or when someone is reading it. I originally intended the cover to have the title on there as well, but I loved the smile so much and thought it iconic enough to tell you what it was just by itself. The type isn't on the spine or back yet.





Here are the versions that led up to the final.

Draft 1

Quick mock up

Original sketch

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Here are some of my submissions to TypeTees, a place that accepts slogans for shirts. It's part of Threadless.com. I've come up with many ideas for Threadless which I will illustrate at some point, but that take much more time. Vote for all the ones you like!

Vote! - dn't nd n stnkn' vwls

Vote! - abcdefghijkmnnopqrstuvwxyz

Vote! - Wh nds vwls? Nt m.

Vote! - Eye mum un key.

Vote! - 10!...9!...8!... (elsewhere on front)

I like count downs

Howdy

Name plate used for BFA Illustration application portfolio

Howdy. I decided to apply to the Illustration BFA at BYU in August rather than the Graphic Design BFA and I was accepted! :) I finished the fall semester in the program and I'm in the winter semester now. I love these classes. I have a lot of stuff that I'm excited to put up on here. Thanks for bugging me to update this blog :). See you soon.

Fridge Magnet Design Suggestions

A friend of mine asked me to look at a design they were working on for a fridge magnet they were designing for their side business. To give my suggestions I made this image. I like this concept that I came up with of the band aid on the mouse. Just a quick comp but I really like how the whole thing turned out. Names and info have been changed to protect in no cent.

Men might have joy.

I've been wanting to start doing some graphic design with religious themes. I wanted this on my wall.

Figures Drawings from today

Here are some drawings from today's class. I'm really excited with how these turned out. Far from perfect but I have been making progress. These drawings took 1, 5, 20 minutes, and about an hour and a half, with the last half hour spent after the model left cleaning it up. For the last one I tried something I saw a classmate do which was tone the paper before drawing on it by putting down a layer of value (thin layer) then when you're adding shadows you can take away what you put down for highlights. Like how that worked out. And look, a good foot! :)

uFlash Logo Contest

We had a contest at uFlash, the local Adobe Users Group for the Flash platform, to design the logo for the group. These were my entries and I won with the top one.

I'm going to try to make it look a little more like "uf" instead of "if" but I like how it turned out. The "f" part of the design is the logo for the Flash Player so I thought it appropriate to use and add the "u."

The icon for the second one is the symbol for a keyframe in Flash. Also I brought in the top right corner to make it resemble Utah as well.

For winning the contest I get to choose any Adobe software package excluding the Master collection. I'm probably going to get the Creative Suite Production Premium so that I can get After Effects. I'm stoked to have it and do more stuff with it this summer.