Vector Magazine Spread

This is the spread i designed for my celebrity's magazine article. Andre the Giant was known both as The Gentle Giant and as The 8th Wonder of the World. He was beloved as a wrestler, actor, and father, and is dearly missed by all who remember this wonderful man.

Lars van de Goor

Lars van de Goor is an amazing photographer who was a finalist in 2010 for the Hasselblad Masters Award. His images of nature scenes are absolutely phenomenal. He enhances the vibrancy and super saturates of nearly all his images, but he does so in a way to make them look like they're straight out of a fantasy novel. The trees and animals seem to sparkle with intensity, and each image draws you further in so you never want to go back to the real world. After looking at his images, even the most beautiful day seems cold and dreary. This is definitely an artist to look up to in the industry.

Magazine Layout Tutorial

How to Post a Picture into Your Blog

Here is a video explaining how to post a picture to your blog if you've been having trouble with this :)

Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan

Mondrian has been one of my favorite artists for as long as i can remember liking art. Probably since about the second grade. However, i realized just recently that i was only aware of his minimalistic abstract paintings, such as this one:


The image at the top, titled Gray Tree, was a 1912 experiment in cubism. This second image, titled Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow was done in 1930 and is what Mondrian eventually came to be known for.

I chose this artist for my week's inspiration because he is proof that you don't have to know exactly what you're going to do for the rest of your life when you're still at the beginning of it. He was nearly 50 when he started producing the grid-like paintings he would be known for. Art isn't about the destination, it's about the journey to that destination.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 Live Trace Tutorial

This is a great tutorial for using the Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator CS5 alongside Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock is one of my favorite artists. His work speaks to me in such a way that is almost impossible to translate. This might be because my poetry is a sort of abstract expressionism as well, but it could be deeper even than that. His work seems to me to be both minimalistic and full at the same time because he only uses a few colors to convey his ideas, yet these colors are everywhere all at once overlapping and intertwining within each other.

Andre the Giant Vector Image

Here is the vector image i did of a celebrity. Andre the Giant is one of my all time favorite actors (and i suppose my favorite wrestler since he's the only one i ever cared to hear about). This is an image of him in his wrestling uniform while the text is a play on a line from the movie The Princess Bride when Fezzik (played by Andre the Giant) says he's on the brute squad and Miracle Max says, "you ARE the brute squad!"

Redesign of Vector Self Portrait

Upon further inspection of my previously posted vector portrait, i realized it looked retarded. so i redid some of the colors and now i feel like it looks much closer to reality.

Tower of Inspiration

While browsing the web for interesting or inspirational images, i ran across this one of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The site where i found this image is called weheartit.com. I really enjoy everything about this image. From the levels and vibrancy to the angle used to capture the Tower to the Tower itself as i spent three years studying the French language and a full semester researching this particular tower. Being such an icon, one might expect that the Eiffel Tower has been over shot and every possible combination of angles, f-stops, and varying levels of color/black&white ratios had been done already. Having never seen this angle of it before, the image reminds me that even overdone icons can be seen in a new light now and then.

Vector Self Portrait

Illustrator CS5 Vector Tutorial

Mini Logo Design