Post-Term Spring Update

Hey there!

Before I say anything else! I hope more than anything that you are well and safe! I think we can all agree 2020 can use a breather; moving furiously and quickly, it’s like life itself has been upset for the past four months.

If I haven’t lived it I wouldn’t have believed that four months have gone by so quick. Another semester at ArtCenter has come and gone, and I have the fruits of my recent labor to share!

If you mosey on over to the Coureworks section of the site you’ll find a the new row of content from each of the recent studio classes I’ve taken - below and to the right you can see at a glance at some of what’s added: like my completed presentation deck for Entertainment Graphics, and a page grab from Costume Design. The content’s password locked, but feel free to reach out to me for access - I want nothing more on this site than to share the work I create in my life, and if I could hear from you and your interest to see it that in itself would mean absolute the world to me!

Design for the Wolf from The Three Little Pigs

Design for the Wolf from The Three Little Pigs

Imaginary Landscape Painting “Picking Flowers”

I’m just really happy my loved ones are well and that we still have a roof overhead and food to consume. Quarantine hit right after the spring midterms at ArtCenter, and it really knocked me off my game. I think getting cut off from the outside world and being relegated to a digital screen cause me some mental duress, among other things. Casually broke my back from overworking. (lul what?!) I hit 29 last Tuesday during finals though. And I was really thankful to be able to celebrate it over hot pot with just my parents and girlfriend. She bought me an ice cream cake too. I haven’t had a slice of those since middle school! What I’d like to say is this - really be careful about how you want to approach life, so you can keep guarded, and also just really appreciate all the things you can be thankful for. Cause lawd knows shit can really hit the fan sometimes.

I’m rambling. Come back around sometime. Again, I hope you continue to stay well and safe.
Cheers!

Stylization 1 Showcase

I hope the new year is treating everyone well! Today I’ll be sharing with you one of the final projects I worked on for Kirsten Kawamura’s Stylization 1 class at ACCD this past fall semester. As the course name would suggest, the focus of the class was to learn and adapt different existing styles from life and from other artists, enabling us to begin developing our own unique styles for our work.

Rob in the Orange Lightning - Revamped Final Illustration

The final project that we took on after midterms involved visual development of a basic adventure story following a theme or tone. This included a line-up of characters, an environment to place them in, as well as a vehicle; as for the tone, I attempted to go for something more whimsical. I imagined it as a an animated television series, similar to shows like Phineas & Ferb or Adventure Time. The bones of the visual inspiration came from a blend of artist studio CreatureBox, known for its work on the Ratchet & Clank game franchise, as well as concept artist ‘Spudonkey’ Gareth Davies. For more on the development process, click on the gallery images contained in this post to zoom and enhance!

Overall the class, its exercises, and the final project were a lot of fun to go through. It’s akin to putting your own spin on a master copy/study, and I was happy to see how the aesthetic evolved over the 7 weeks. Of course, this is only representative of half of the work I did for the class; for more on Stylization 1, do check it out in its own section under my Coursework page, where you can find that as well as archives of work from my other classes throughout my college years!

Happy new year everyone! Thanks for dropping by, I’ll speak to you again soon!