Normally, I’m not a fan of ‘student work’, e.g. work done while in school. For the most part, it feels unfinished and a bit amateurish (at least, the way I view my past work… but I am overly harsh on my self).

However, this video that I created while in school is something I am very proud of, even a few years after I made it. The project was to create a video using Adobe After Effects to do the editing and rendering. Simple.

I have always been a fan of artwork that makes you think. But not just think about what the artist is trying to say. I like work that makes you think about the reason behind WHY the artist is trying to say what they’re trying to say. I tried to capture that with this video. It is very abstract and can be interpreted in many ways.

At first glance, it’s pretty easy to see that this was inspired by the amazing film, Waking Life. I used Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator to ‘rotoscope’ the original footage (not quite rotoscoping, but close enough). This process took DAYS. Lots of testing, tweaking, and batch editing.

Even though this is still classified as student work, the blood, sweat, and tears put into it justifies it being shown to the world.

I was tasked with creating the first HTML email for a private winery in Northern California, Epoynmous Wines. Given PDF versions of their current brochure as a source of copy and some design cues, I set to work creating something simple yet elegant; trying to appeal to the target demographic (more conservative) while still keeping an edge.

The next step will be to develop a series of HTML emails to send out information on what’s new at the winery as well as to get more people to sign up for the wine club.

Hopefully soon Elevated Antelope will be taking new product shots of some of the bottles to add to the HTML emails and other printed marketing collateral.

People often ask what I do when I’m not working… Well, when I’m not behind the keyboard I like to play with cars. Anything from regular maintenance (oil changes, fluid changes, spark plugs, shocks, etc), to modifications like changing the stock engine management to something more open source and programmable.

I also enjoy doing body work. I recently decided to remove the front emblem on the 1991 BMW 318ic convertible I’m restoring.

The car is going to be getting repainted red, so the paint on the touched up hood is really just there to prevent rust.

The artwork for this shirt design turned out to be a 12 color design + base.
The index separation was done by hand in PhotoShop.

The web store for FK-Evil (in-house apparel brand at the shop I work at) is built on Magento. Currently waiting on the catalog to be finalized so the build can continue/finish.

All artwork is created by me, all coding was done by hand (coding being changes to the base-magento code either CSS or PHP).

This was one of my contributions to the in-house apparel line at the screen printing shop I currently work at.

This was drawn by hand in Photoshop using a Wacom Intuos 4. The art was drawn to-size to prevent any issues later on of having created raster art that is a few inches too small for the shirt.

Discharge base and tinted discharge base will be used when these shirts go into production. This will provide a super soft feel, and a very natural color to the wheat.

In the world of screen printing, the job isn’t complete until the client has all of the product they ordered. How does one insure that the client has every single piece?

Simple: label the boxes in such a way that if one were to go missing, it will be noticed quickly (labeling boxes alphabetically). Also, make sure all important info (PO numbers, lot numbers, etc) are clearly visible at a glance.

This is how you ensure nothing goes ‘missing’ as the pallets and cartons exchange hands on the way to the final destination.

Tara Lanzini, of Lanzini Body Works (as seen on Over Haulin’ on TLC) had asked for a new design for the shop while she was getting some older designs printed at the shop.

She wanted something simple and elegant… this was my solution, which I feel fits the type of work their shop does.

Logo for SoCale30.com (California Bear, traced in Illustrator and then reversed, BMW Motorsport colors added, reversed).
Text at the bottom is a rough translation of ‘West Coast For Life’.

I hadn’t really done an illustration in Adobe Illustrator since I was in college, but the site I was working on needed some art, and, well, I felt vector art was the only thing that would fit.

I started slowly, creating a C-130 transport aircraft, followed by a V-22 Osprey, with each getting more and more detailed. The Super Cobra started as a Google Image search which I traced just to get the basic outline of the helicopter. Once the main outline was completed, the image was hidden and all the details started to form on the helicopter. The blades were clipped in the original image, so I drew upon my long love of all mechanical things (especially military birds), and created what I felt was the best approximation of the blades I could.

Overall this took about 5 hours to complete (off and on, so this is a rough guess).