DeMoss Hallway Project

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For this project, my group was required to create an design for a hallway in our school portraying student life at liberty. The hallway was bare of artwork, and the university wanted student art to add life to the space.

For our concept, we chose to create a collage of 71 students. 71 is a prominent number at the university, because the school was founded in 1971. Me and my group members took photographs of students all over campus until we reached 71 faces. We then edited the images in photoshop to create the desired effect, before importing the images to illustrator and converting them to paths. The people were then segmented into individual squares and colored. The squares and people inside have a roughly complementary color relationship, with colors of the people being darkened as needed. The final image was chosen to be displayed in the hallway, and will be over nine feet long.

Clucks & Moos

This project required a concept illustration for a children's website that educates children about farm life. The concept was to be the opening page for this children's website that would introduce the style of the page, and list the navigation for the site. The target audience was children ages 3-7.

For my project, I created a simple opening scene, a kind of establishing shot for the farm. I wanted the style to be vibrant, stylized and just a little bit distorted. The barn especially shows the exaggerated perspective. I created the foreground bull to add visual interest to the scene, and a sign post to contain all the navigation. The last navigation was placed on the ground to create more visual interest, to draw the bull into the vertical eye line, and to point the viewers attention to the barn. The title was set in a fun, loose font, and made to appear to be coming through the clouds to incorporate it into the scene.

Literary Illustration

For this project, we were required to create an illustration that captured the essence of a literary passage. For my passage I chose a segment from George Orwell's Animal Farm:

But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the face of the pigs? Clover’s old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing?

For the illustration I first sketched the scene, then traced all the elements in Illustrator. The outlines were then printed off, and shaded using graphite pencils. The shaded image was then scanned to illustrator, and overlaid on the composition to add the texture. The colors were kept dark and subdued to reflect the mood of the scene. The shadow of the main figures was also changed to add another level of meaning into the illustration.

Photorealistic Product Illustration

The brief for this project was to create a photorealistic product illustration of a Unilever product. The goal was to create a highly detailed and clean representation of the product for use in advertising and displays.

I chose to create an illustration of Wishbone russian salad dressing. I took numerous photographs of the product under various lighting conditions, and chose the one that best fit the brief. The final image was created primarily of gradient meshes. The completed image is displayed above. The projected was completed after about 40 hours of work.

Stylized Portraits

For this assignment, me and a three others formed a group, and created a stylized portrait of the group. Our group chose to create our portraits in a film noir style. We first went and took reference photographs of the group members to capture the desired lighting style. Then, the individual group members created their portraits, which were assembled into the building. The building was designed to create a dark and moody atmosphere for the scene.

This piece could be improved by more editing, to draw the styles of each portrait together more closely.

Zoo Icons

The assignment for this project was to create a series of signs for a zoo, to be used to direct visitors to the various animals. The signs had to be able to direct people of any age or language, so they could not have text. They also had to be visible from a distance.

For my signs, I went for a stylized approach, creating all the animals in portrait, and abstracting them heavily. I used the stylization to emphasize the unique aspects of each animal, enhancing the recognizability of the signs. The final image is a collection of twelve of these signs, covering most animal groups that would be featured at a zoo.

Simple Shapes

The brief for this project was to create a series of objects composed entirely of basic shapes. The goal was to create an assortment of simple objects, and then create a larger, more refined composition.

For my smaller objects, I created stylized, fun designs that conveyed the objects clearly. For the larger composition I chose a recognizable landmark, and created a detailed depiction of it from simple shapes. The final images show the collection of smaller stylized objects, and my rendition of the Taj Mahal.