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3D Modeling

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Richmond Art Museum Outreach Logo

Video Game Poster

Leather Smithing Logo

 

Graphic Design Work

Construction Company Logo
2020
Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape

This is an earlier version of a logo I designed for a local construction company. See the final version below.
Leather Smithing Logo
2020
Inkscape

A logo I designed for a client's leather smithing company.
Richmond Art Museum Outreach Van Logo
2019
Adobe Illustrator

A logo I designed during IU East's Empower Wayne County Internship. This logo was designed for Richmond Art Museum's van outreach project. I added new elements to their existing logo to create a new design that is fun and playful. This logo currently appears on Richmond Art Museum's van. See Education & Experience page for more details on this project.
Space Shuttle Logo
2021
Inkscape

An attempt to create a logo in the style of NASA's famous emblem. I wanted to capture a similar overall look in the color scheme and layout, but also have something distinct.
UFO Logo
2020
Inkscape

A vector logo I designed for my merch brand.
Survivication Logo
2017
Adobe Illustrator

A vector logo I designed for a fictional amusement park while attending Purdue Polytechnic.
Captain Sci-fi Logo
2021
Inkscape

A text logo I designed for my merch brand.

Publication Design and Advertising

Casket Supply Catalog
2022
Adobe InDesign

A page from a casket supply catalog I created for Birck's Industrial Supply. I recreated the catalog based on physical copies of an older catalog, and added a new color scheme.
Merch Brand Business Card
2021
Microsoft Publisher

A business card I designed for my merch brand, using the UFO logo I designed in Inkscape.
Science Fiction Club Business Card
2016
Microsoft Publisher

A business card I designed for IU East's Science Fiction Club.
Flu Shot Ad
2017
Adobe Photoshop

An ad I created while attending Purdue Polytechnic, made using assets that were provided by the instructor.
Senior Capstone Poster
2020
Adobe Photoshop

A poster I created for my Senior Capstone Exhibition, featuring art created by my classmates.
Dinosaur Calendar
2022
Canva

A calendar I created for my Etsy store, featuring free-use assets.
Wanted Poster Template
2020
Microsoft Publisher

A template for a wanted poster I sell on Etsy, which can be customized for customers.
Survivication Poster
2017
Adobe Photoshop

This was part of a semester-long project, where we created a theme park called "Survivication". This is a poster for a movie based on this fictional park. I thought it would be funny to take inspiration from Michael Bay-style action movies. Everything is by me, or falls under fair use/parody.
Sci-fi Club Flyer
2023
LibreOffice Draw

A flyer I designed for my science fiction club, with tear-off tabs. Baby Yoda graphic was purchased from RDesignUA on Etsy.

Web Graphics

Odd-Eyed Cat Avatar
2020
Krita

A raster social media avatar I designed for my merch brand.
Conceptual Graphic
2021
Inkscape

A conceptual graphic meant to illustrate creativity, teamwork, and innovation.
YouTube Thumbnail
2020
Krita

A thumbnail for a YouTube video.

Other Work

Digital Illustration

Pet T-Shirt Design
2020
Krita

A drawing I did for a T-shirt graphic.
Sasha: The Escape Cat Poster
2020
Krita

A poster I created for my animated capstone project, a short film called "Sasha: The Escape Cat".
Video Game Poster
2017
Adobe Photoshop

Poster for a fictional video game called "Food Mafia". Instead of the people eating the food, the food eats the people! This was a joint project with my classmate Andrea Simpson. I did the character designs, she did the backgrounds and composition (she did the Cupcake too!)​

Check out Andrea's website here: https://andreaksimpson.com/
Eclipse Digital Illustration
2017
Adobe Photoshop

This is a digital illustration of a cosmic eclipse scene.
R2-D2
2018
Adobe Photoshop

A digital drawing of R2-D2 I did for a friend to use as a paper stand-up figure.
Sqweeks!!!
2021
Krita

It's Sqweeks!
Starscream
2018
Autodesk Sketchbook

A drawing of Starscream I did on my phone using Autodesk Sketchbook.
Jazz Musician Model Sheet
2018
Adobe Photoshop

A model sheet of a jazz musician, for Purdue Polytechnic's Starr Valley Recreation Project.
Toe Tippers Concept
2021
Krita

Concept art for an invention called "Toe Tippers", which would help visually impaired people detect obstacles before collision. Done for a class project.
Star Trek Possums
2021
Krita

Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy possums debate the "death" of Red Shirt Possum.
Food Video Game Characters
2017
Adobe Photoshop

The individual character designs I did for the video game project.
Pocket Possum
2021
Krita

A cute drawing I did for a T-shirt graphic.
Country Landscape
2021
Krita

An illustration of a country landscape, done for a website banner.

3D Modelling

Ford Model-T
2018
Autodesk Maya

3D model of a Ford Model T. Created for Purdue Polytechnic's Starr Valley Recreation project.
Robot
2017
Autodesk Maya

A robot design created for a class project.
Artist Desk
2017
Autodesk Maya

A 3D concept for an artist desk.

Animation

Sasha: The Escape Cat – Short Film

2020

Krita, Adobe Animate

Sasha: The Escape Cat is my senior capstone project. I planned the story, created storyboards, animated, and edited the entire short film over the course of sixteen weeks.

I didn’t want to use royalty-free stock music, so I hired the talented composer Vladislav Savvateev to create a soundtrack for it.

The project was entirely drawn and animated in Krita (with the exception of the title sequence and the closing zoom, which were done in Adobe: Animate). Editing was done in Adobe Premiere.

Physical Media

Cat Triptych
2019
Acrylic Paint

A triptych featuring three cats.
Annoyed Cat
2019
Acrylic Paint

Annoyed cat is held upside down by owner.
Detective
2017
Oil Paint

A mysterious detective walks down a shady street.
Indiana Jones
2020
Pencil Drawing

The adventurer himself.

Origami

Baby Yoda
2022
Origami Paper

Baby Yoda/Grogu origami design, created by me.
Dragon Bookmark
2022
Origami Paper

An origami dragon that functions as a bookmark. Modified from a design I created in 2013.
Star Lord's Spaceship
2014
Origami Paper

Star Lord's spaceship from Guardians of the Galaxy.
Dragon Instructions Sample Page
2013
Adobe Photoshop

Sample of the instruction page I created for my origami dragon.

Workflow

The assignment for this project was to design the look of Richmond Art Museum’s outreach van. The van had to be in-keeping with RAM’s existing branding, but also had to be distinct, iconic, and have a fun flair for kids since the van would be visiting schools.

I started off by printing some images of a Ford Transit van and used colored pencils to sketch out ideas of how RAM's color palate could interact with the van's design. Initially I wasn't sure if we were going to have a new logo or just use their existing logo.
Once it was decided that having a unique logo for this project would be ideal I started sketching ideas for logos. Some of them ended up being too clunky or random. The new logo had to be something that built upon their existing logo and integrated well with it.
Sometimes an idea looks better in your head than in execution. I really liked the idea of the little vans driving up the side of the logo in the sixth picture, but it just became too much detail.
After narrowing the options down to a couple contenders, my team decided the paint splatter logo looked best. I actually intended it to be rays of light in the sketches, but paint splatters worked better with the theme of the project. So I created that logo as a vector graphic in Adobe Illustrator.
After creating the logo, I created concept art of what the van might look like with the logo on the side using promo photos of the Ford Transit van. I knew all of these details wouldn't make it onto the final van (like the colored hubcaps), but I wanted the mock-up to be as striking as possible.
About 8 months after I created the logo, I received an email from the education director of Richmond Art Museum asking if it was okay to use the logo on their final van. I always assumed they'd redesign it, but I was pleasantly surprised they wanted to use the exact design I created.

Video Game Poster

This project was a collaboration with fellow student Andrea Simpson (whose portfolio can be viewed at https://andreaksimpson.com/). The assignment was to create a poster for a fictional video game. We decided it would be funny to create a game where the concept is that killer food tries to eat people instead of the other way around. I was in charge of creating character designs for the poster, and Andrea did the backgrounds, poster layout, and the cupcake boss villain.

I started off by doing a bunch of sketches of anthropomorphic food. I had several pages of these sort of designs, and we had to narrow it down to about five.
After deciding which foods would be the final characters I drew them in Adobe Photoshop. I made sure to keep the weapons separate so they could be posed without them, if needed. I left the chef's face (who's supposed to be the player character) blank so we could put our faces in there.
After we both completed our parts of the project we combined them together to make the final poster.

The goal of this project was to create a logo for MC Leather Smithing. My client wanted a design that featured a leather cutting knife and his initials. He wanted me to do something in red and grey. 

I started off by sketching several concepts, all based on a rough sketch he sent me (which looked pretty close to the ones on the top row. I made sure to number them so he could easily identify which one he wanted to go with. He liked the one with the crossed knives (#8), so I started working with that.
I added color and gave him various fonts to choose from. He liked the western-style font and script font, and he asked if we could incorporate both (western for the initials and script for the words "leather smithing").
After finalizing the fonts, colors, and design I added a bit of shading to the handle and asked my client which he preferred. He couldn't really tell the difference, so I gave him the one with shading because I thought it had a bit more depth.