A board game cover I made for a digital art class.
For a good long time, I got lazy and did a lot of faux-pixel art in Photoshop. This is an example of that. For a group project in my digital art class at Beloit College we had to design a board game, from the box to the game mechanics to the board and pieces. My responsibility was the title, back story, and the box. The very generic story involved four kids, including the redheaded geek and the reluctant emo kid, being sucked into a computer to defeat the MEGAVIRUS using a high form of arithmetic called ULTRAMATH. The name came naturally. I envisioned it having some kind of early 90′s commercial with bad animation of the world within the game kind of like this, and some live action footage of kids sitting around the board having way too much fun considering the dullness of the actual game. After landing on a “short-circuit” space on the board, a young boy grabs his head in shock and shouts, “MY MEGABYTES!!!” (the points accumulated in the game).
Self-portrait. Limited photoshop help, then colored pencils.
Sophomore year effort towards making my internet social network portraits more interesting. I don’t look right in that hat anymore, that scarf disappeared, and the zipper on that jacket fell off. Those days are over.
It is true, no?
One of my earlier fliers and Photoshop collage things advertising Earth Day at my time with the School of Environmental Studies. I can’t let space go, even if the subject is very particularly the Earth.
Ben's second big party invite.
I was tasked with making the invites to Ben’s party fun times in the summer of 2003. The pulp sci-fi picture sampled here was taken from another sampling at one of Something Awful’s earlier Photoshop Phridays. I’m no plagiarist, I swear. No more than the rest of the damnable internets, honest.
Picture of my brother, Cass, using Photoshop and colored pencil and pens.
Leland drawn, and colored within a computer from a photo. Art? Nah.
I started to feel bad about doing this kind of portraiture after a while, as it consists of taking a photograph in Photoshop, tracing important parts, printing it out real light, tracing the lines with a pen or marker, and coloring accordingly. Then I discovered that it was just a primitive version of vectorizing in Adobe Illustrator. Still, I’m reluctant to revisit this kind of drawing, which I did a lot of in spring 2007.
An Andrew WK stencil I made and sprayed. He is a bit of a hero to me.
Blurry picture of a stencil of my brother, Cass, who is a bass player and did have blue hair.
A pair of sultry stencils of my friend, Tontie.
In the summer and fall after I graduated from SES, I took up the hobby of making and spraying stencils. More often than not, they were portraits of people I knew or wanted to know. My methods were primitive then, I ought to revisit this stuff soon.
"You're the Bomb"
"Why must our love be forbidden?"
Every year, I put together at least a couple valentines like this. I slip them under dorm doors and bolt. It’s better that way. I’ll uncover more in the future. Stay put.
Tags: art, Beloit College, drawing, fliers, oldies, SES, stencil, valentine
