My personal slice of the artsy pie.
Former Webpage Designs
Katamari Damashi
From: 2005.November.20
Katamari Damashi again, this time underwater. An exercise in Illustrator, as all the image are vectors. There's some PHP trickery in the box that shows my rank on the Digital Ops Counter-Strike server. It's pulled from a stats page.
Katamari Damashi
From: 2005.March.13
Based on the PlayStation 2 game, Katamari Damashi. The city in the background is Chicago.
Spilled Hearts (Unused)
From: 2004.February.27
I have a bottle of clear nail polish with little shiny hearts that looks quite pretty. However, the hearts fall off nails quite easily. It's sort of like those large glass bottles of vinegar that have carrots or some other odd vegetable stuffed in them; looks good in the bottle, but shouldn't be used. If you don't know what I'm talking about veggie-bottle-wise, just hit up Pier 1, if it's frivoless it's there.
Anyway, this would've been the title image. Using clear liquid didn't look right, so I switched it to red. At 150%.
Butterfly
From: 2004.August.24
I don't have an eye for photography at all (hurrah for digital cameras and no wasted film!), but I liked this yellow swallowtail butterfly shot.
Swan
From: 2004.July.07
The swan was done in Photoshop with the lasso tool and the paintbucket. It's designed after the same swan who owns the park Brian and I frequent.
New this design around is the new link box, which displays the most recently added links.
Wall Art
From: 2004.April.10
The main wall "paintings" come from a Japanese music video, "Sakura Drops" by Utada Hikaru. The left images are from the video game Uru, which I was playing at the time. I tried to put shoemarks leading up on the walkway on the left, but they looked odd so I pulled them out.
Hearts
From: 2004.February.16
Image comes from a picture taken of my keychain at the time (it's broken since, it's cute but not strong). Best part are the red hearts behind the comment box. I originally was going to have them in front, but they work better this way methinks.
Reindeer
From: 2003.12.30
Reindeers are watercolor and pen, done at 2 AM when I couldn't sleep. They started out pretty evil looking, but with a little eye change they don't look so bad.
Yuna X-2
From: 2003.12.01
This one lasted a few days. I've never played Final Fantasy X-2 (or FFX for that matter), but I do like Yuna's character design. I have the action figure of her as well. Comes with two pairs of hands, with and without guns! First design where the comments get front page real estate.
Kiki
From: 2003.11.02
I had recently seen Kiki's Delivery Service and the image fit the Halloweenie theme well.
Dark Winged
From: 2003.10.22
Adventures in working with transparency in IE and every other browser. I don't have anything else to say about this one. Except the text suggests a cinnamon bun and I could go for one right about now.
Bumble
From: 2003.10.08
My violin scroll. The sheet music was screenshot off the web. The writing and violin shadows were taken by digital on white sheets of paper, then layered over the music. Originally, a picture of a bee was involved, but it was dubbed too silly and stricken from the page.
Holding Flight
From: 2003.10.01
That's the Japanese Pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki. She was given wings because hey, why not. A bit of the midriff was showing, so I covered that up. This isn't that kind of site.
White Angel
From: 2003.08.07
The wings are not mine, but the rest was in photoshop with the ideas taken off of various anime images. The font is ILS Script, the quote's from Shakespeare. It doesn't mean anything in particular, but it fits the angel theme.
Bird Cage
From: 2003.06.29
I learn how to overlap images. I didn't know how to work with .png format in IE, so the image stayed in gif. Thus the grainyness of the bird. I switched from another's pure PHP comment system to a one using PHP / MySQL stuff that I made with my own two feet.
Missed Love
From: 2003.02.02
Never made the cut. I love the style of the hand/heart (it's not my image and I cannot remember from whence it came.)
Chocobo
From: 2003.01.20
The Chocobo's a character always found in Final Fantasy games. I believe this image is from FF Tactics. The Japanese characters under the title are the words "In Flight" run through babelfish.
Dragon Buzzy
From: 2003.01.01
I like the purple and green combo. The actual colored pencil picture of the little dragon has him looking a bit happier; something got lost in the transfer to Photoshop, but it turned out alright.
Phoenix
From: 2002.09.01
Ohhh bright colors. That bird took me quite a few hours in Photoshop. I usually draw on paper and then transfer, but for some reason this was pure Photoshop action.
Quetzal
From: 2002.07.05
The quetzal, a bird with the longest tail feathers in the world (and I needed a bird with long feathers to drape down the left side.)
A Mixed Bag
Illustrator
Phoenix
From: 2004.September.02
This was originally going to be an icon for a business card, but it became too complex (too many feathers). I'm not a huge fan of it, but the right wing turned out alright.
It looks better when it's smaller for some reason.
Smeat
From: 2004.August.17
Enjoy Smeat! Smeat reference comes from the fine comic Pokey the Penguin.
Hawk
From: 2004.August.11
Looks like it's a design that belongs at a Renaissance Faire. Which makes sense as this is based off a photo takes at a Renaissance Faire!
Swan
From: 2004.August.10
I'm pretty new to this graphical arena, so most everything's a learning experience. I've used Photoshop for years, but Illustrator acts as a slightly different beast. I learned many things about the pen tool in this one, along with how to make gradients.
The image was based on a former website design.
Photoshop
Space Cow
From: 2004.July.16
This little cow is based off of a game Tod's working on. It didn't have wings at first, but it needed a little something more, so in they went! The image is rather surreal.
Pencil
Watercolor
Colored Pencil
Unfinished
