This is a blog to follow my progression in my design career, and you will also get to see what my likes and specialties are in art. I love painting, this is my favorite form or artistic expression, and nothing is more relaxing to me then grabbing a canvas and taking my paint brush to it and allowing whatever my imagination wants to create become a reality.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Type as a pattern


In this project we went on to the program Illustrator and created different borders using different typefaces.

Type as a pattern


In this project we went onto the program Illustrator and created different Medallions out of different letters of typeface.

Type as a pattern


In this project we went onto the program Illustrator and made different patterns out of different typefaces.

type as a pattern


In this project we went on Illustrator and created patterns out of different type faces and letters.

Type as a pattern


In this project we went on Illustrator and made different patterns out of different type faces.

Type as a pattern


In this project we went on illustrator and made patterns out of different typefaces.

Type as a pattern


In this project we went on the application Illustrator and chose different type faces and made patterns out of them.

Self Identity


This also had to do with the self-identity project. I chose this photo to go with the theme of Introspection. I thought that this clearly deals with what women go through in the fight to fit in and conform to the stereotype that the media had put on women and their bodies.

Self Identity


In this project we had to go with the theme of self-identity and i chose rebellion. We had to have half of it hand made and the other half of found materials. I thought that this picture was the perfect embodiment of rebellion

Metamorphisis





In this project we had to create a object morphing into another object. Our message of the end product is social justice. We had to have at least 3 steps in between each original image. My message is do video games cause violence in the youth? I used a controller and screen with people fighting on it morphing into a grenade exploding.

Thursday, November 5, 2009


This is the final stage of the composition and line project. In this project I have narrowed the 9 most successful drawings, and placed them on a grid as shown here. In this I am trying to avoid the Gestalt groupings, and have some of the images continue off the space leaving the white space open. This has been traced using the light box, and a fine tip sharpie marker.

This is one of the middle stages of the composition and line project. In this project I have narrowed the 9 most successful drawings, and placed them on a grid as shown here. In this I am trying to avoid the Gestalt groupings, and have some of the images continue off the space leaving the white space open.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009


For this design I used black washable paint, a 18 x 24 sheet of drawing paper and a household paint brush. The idea was to create non-objective designs using out name as the basis, but you didn't want to be able to read your name in the end. In this design i used heavier strokes and lines. I wanted more of a modern feel, something very nonobjective and used only a few letters, but if you look close so many possibilities stem from these letters, and it looks so simple, yet so complex.

For this design I used black washable paint, a 18 x 24 sheet of drawing paper and a household paint brush. The idea was to create non-objective designs using out name as the basis, but you didn't want to be able to read your name in the end. I used curved letters that kind of flow around, and some of the letters connect, but still this is more of a readable font, but still interesting.

For this design I used black washable paint, a 18 x 24 sheet of drawing paper and a household paint brush. The idea was to create non-objective designs using out name as the basis, but you didn't want to be able to read your name in the end. I used rounded strokes in this design and off the rounded stroke i would incorporate a more readable letter to balance it out, and it came out very interesting and again like a old language that no one can read.

For this design I used black washable paint, a 18 x 24 sheet of drawing paper and a household paint brush. The idea was to create non-objective designs using out name as the basis, but you didn't want to be able to read your name in the end. My method consisted of just painting spontaneous lines, and connecting them so that letters formed and just off a single letter i created more and more. In the end it looks like a symbol or a old language which is very intriguing.

This is the shape exercise where we took a 8 x 10 piece of bristol board and a 4 inch square of black construction paper, and just as in the previous 2 designs I destroyed the square as much as i could, yet hoping the viewer could still catch the glimpse of a square. I cut small pieces and just went with any type of shape i could cut and just went with it. The clean up on all 3 of these designs was very difficult, but for the intricacy of the designs its understandable.

This design is in the shape exercise where we took a 8 x 10 piece of bristol board and a 4 inch square of black construction paper, and created a design seeing how much we could destroy the identity of the square. It is the same idea as the first posting but a completely different approach where you can see more of the square itself, yet shapes are still a huge part of it.

This was the shape exercise we did with a 8 x 10 piece of bristol board and using a 4 inch square of black construction paper. I took the black construction paper and with a Xacto knife i cut very snall shapes and lines to make a non-objective design, so that you could not recognize the actual square it once was, yet still retaining a essence of the square itself. This was a very tedious and time consuming project, but the outcome is well worth it.