Surreal Portrait

Surreal portrait I started at class but finished at home. This was a photo of one of my friends, I wasn't too sure on what to do with this assignment, but then I decided to do a sugar skull type thing. I used a reference picture of a basic skull and then free handed the design onto his face using the brush tool with a light gray color that had very low opacity. It was very difficult at first as I started using a mouse, but then I switched over to using a surface pro 4 that had a pen attachment which made the entire process so much easier. And much like the last one, I swapped his eyes as well with the same person I used for the last assignment.

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Photoshop Face Swap

Simple photoshop assignment that I completed in class. I didn't want to swap the entire faces of two different people, so I shot two pictures of my classmates and only swapped their eyes. So after editing, this was the outcome. Overall I'm pretty happy with the edit and I think it's pretty believable.
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Black and White Painting Part 3

Part 3 of my black and white acrylic painting series. This one is a little different from the other two because I added some different kinds of texture on the forehead area using a mix of cotton balls and tissue paper saturated in white acrylic paint. I think it gives the painting a bit of an edge and a distinct look.

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Black and White Painting Part 2

Part 2 of my black and white acrylic painting series.

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Black and White Painting

This is one of three paintings I did. They're acrylic on canvas, and all of them were done using only black acrylic paint. It was definitely a challenge trying to keep all the lines clean and not smear any of the paint, but I really enjoyed painting all of them because it was something different that I had never tried before. Overall, I think they turned out very well.

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Traditional Native American Art

Some ink illustrations. This is a more modern version of a traditional Navajo Yei bi Chei piece. it's done on cardboard and I used a large variety of markers and pens including, sharpies, inks, alcohol based,  paint markers, and ball point pens. Because of the brown tone of the cardboard, the pinks didn't come out as vibrant as I wanted them too, but I think the overall composition turned out much better then I had planned.

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Ethnic Diversity

Acrylic on canvas. Just trying to paint some different ethnicities and experiment with different skin tones. I think I could have done her eyes differently now that I see the finished product, but overall I'm happy with the colors and shading. The accent colors framing the picture are a little on the weird side, not really sure what I was trying to do, but I think the piece turned out as close to how I originally envisioned it.

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Winter Soldier Stencil

Two layer stencil of "The Winter Soldier" character from the Marvel Captain America comics. Not a super detailed cut, but the stars were definitely a bit of a challenge. It's a spray paint stencil done on small sheets of cardboard. Overall I think it's a good print even though some of the lines are a bit fuzzy.

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Ink Illustration Part 3

The third piece in the series.

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Ink Illustration Part 2

The second piece in the series.

Ink llustration

Some ink and marker illustration I did over the summer. I did three different pieces, this being the very first. The inspiration for these pieces came from a candy store that I went too while visiting family In Seattle, Washington. They were done in variety of different pens including ball point, felt tip, sharpie, Crayola, and alcohol based pens.

Anatomy Practice

This is just some basic anatomy drawing. I've never been super great at drawing anatomically correct bodies, but you can only get better with practice. This was done in Adobe Illustrator using the pen tool. I think the shading could be cleaner and the highlights could be brighter but besides that I think it turned out pretty well for a first try.

Twenty One Pilots inspired stencil

A four-layer stencil I made. It's a pretty simple cut but there were a number of small detail cuts I had to do around the ribs on the chest. The first print (on the left side) didn't print very well but the second one came out much better. There was a small mistake where one of his ribs didn't show up on the second print, but besides that I'm very happy with the outcome of this piece. I printed both on 8x11 pieces of cardboard using spray paint and sharpie to clean up lines.

SFX

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Another prosthetic using liquid latex and cotton. This was a project I did for my older sister. It took about 3 hours with including making the prosthetic, painting it, application, and dry time.

Deadpool

Cubism was the subject for this piece and while its not terrible, I feel like I could have done better on this piece but Much like perspective, I don't like Cubism either.

Going down.

This was a perspective assignment and i like how it turned out, but I was not very excited to do this piece because Im not huge fan of perspective drawing. 

Sharks

I'm not really sure where the inspiration for this came, but its a nice piece but not my favorite.

Eye of the Beholder

This piece is one I did quite a while ago, I'm not super happy with the outcome of the building portion inside the eye, but the overall composition turned out ok.

Guard Tower #13

This particular piece was actually created for a contest at the Museum of Contemporary Art. It's acrylic on repurposed wood.

Levels.

I have some mixed feelings on this piece, It was a first try at my own style. The drawings I had done before were in marker so blending was easier then with acrylic, but I am very happy with how it came out. 

Jersey Devil.

This painting is my interpretation of the Jersey Devil. It's painted on wood in acrylic. I did have some trouble deciding on the background, but it did come out better then I had originally expected.

"Skull Candy."

This was done in marker and ink. It was a first time try at a certain style, and while I believe this is not one of my favorite pieces, I will say it turned out rather decent.

Diné

This piece is done of canvas in acrylic. Originally, I had created this for my father. It was a modern take on traditional Navajo Art, and i'm very pleased with the overall painting.

"Soft Hues"

This is a piece I did for a surrealism project. Not really sure what it is, but I turned out very nicely. I used chalk pastel for this one and since I'm not a huge fan of pastel, I am very happy with my execution of this piece. Even though there was lots of trial and error, I'm pleasantly surprised with how picture looked in the end.

POP ART

This is an original piece I did using ink, sharpies, and a variety of other markers. The assignment was to create a pop art inspired piece, so I did that by duplicating a drawing I had done several times and colored all of it differently. I'm very proud with how clean all of the lines came out, and i'm overall pleased with the finished product.

Clique art

This piece is done on 14x17 sketch book paper. I used a variety of Writer markers, Bic pens, felt tips, alcohol markers, and micro-lines. It is inspired by the band, Twenty One Pilots.

"Tree of life"

Illustration of a tree. I used a variety of markers and felt tip pens to ink and color the sketch. It's done on simple 8.5x11 sketch book paper. Not quite sure what I was trying to achieve, but I'm pretty happy with it.

Messing around with Sketchbook Pro. A little GIF making.

Trying out how to make animated GIFs in Sketchbook Pro on the IPAD.

Messing around with a new style

Just a little inside on some new things i'm trying. This piece was done on a I think 11x17 canvas. But i'm not 100% sure on the size. It was done in a range of cooler tone acrylic paints.

Dehesa Dragons Logo.

This is a new school logo I designed as a multimedia project. It was done in Adobe Illustrator and then taken in Adobe Photoshop. I used a draw tablet for the drawing portion of the dragon. It's not something I usually do, I usually add more color, But i'm extremely pleased with the overall finished product. Bye the end of the week, I should have the design printed onto a tee shirt.

Deaf culture art

A piece I did for my ASL course. It's done in all acrylic on canvas. It's supposed to be a deaf culture piece in the style of Nancy Rourke.