Website Template

I have been playing around with a few possible website templates for my portfolio. Here is one of the website prototypes.

Rollerblade Tag Photoshop

Here are a few photos from my rollerblade tag photo shoot.

Skateboard Deck - DONE

After looking at my deck for a while I noticed it was still rather plain and it felt like it was missing something. My sister had the bright idea of adding a sparrow to the image. After looking online for the right type I came up with this photo.



I took the image into illustrator and traced it. Then I imported the image into Photoshop to do some finishing touches. I also added some sort of lines if you will to the background. Here are the final results.



Give or take the final product took me 6 hours from begging to end and I'm rather happy with the results of it.

---UPDATE---

Here are a few images of the final product, once printed and put onto the board.
Taking images was rather hard as the flash would glare rather horribly due to to the glossy print on the deck.
If I was ever to do this again I would definitely not go for the glossy paper, it's way to thick making it very difficult to mount onto the skatedeck.

Skateboard Deck

I have been working on my skateboard deck on and off for 2 some odd days now.
Give or take 3-4 hours in Adobe Illustrator. I had a blast working on the rainbow (mark the total sarcasm)
Bellow you fill find my process so far.

Skate Deck

Here are my two skateboard deck ideas. I got the idea for one when I was looking closely at my collage for Aviva's class. While the 2nd one is rather obvious, it's pacman!





The image can also be found on my Flickr account. You can find the link to my account on the right of my blog.

Fall Out Boy

Here is my attempt at making a CD jewel case. We basically had to make a collage of artist we like and then scan it onto the computer and manipulate it using photoshop and illustrator however we please.
Click on the images to view them at a higher resolution

My Setup

Here is a old photo of my computer setup in my room. I don't use that computer often though, unless I want to do a lot of multitasking or blast some music.

After lots of tweaking and a suggestion from Andrew here is my rollerblade tag.
I can only hope this is what Joe is looking for as we never got the outline for the assignment.

Photo Shoot

I know that the next week is going is going to be fairly stressful with all of the assignments and what not. So I did my best to do as much work as I possibly could this weekend. Here are the final pictures from my "emo bear" photo shoot.
























All these images and a few more can be found on my Flickr account as well.

PIRATESSSS!!!!!

Click the link below to view the new Pirates of the Caribbean trailer.
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/pirates/atworldsend/

Package Design

From the gecko I had the idea to put my bear into some sort of jail cell.
After much trial and debate I finally found the best way to this..
I was able to purchase a 4x4 transparent box which seemed to fit my bear perfectly, well besides the fact that it has to be on an angle... BUT STILL.


I cut out a 4x4 piece of foam core I had laying around, it worked perfectly as a base for my toy bear.


One I had the base down I jumped into Photoshop to create the bricks and bars for the jail cell. Once I got the measurements down it took minutes. I printed everything out on "mate" paper.
I want to make the box look as appealing as possible so I decided that I would make the brick walls double sided. I simply printed out the bricks twice and glued them together.



I ended up cutting out a few of the bricks to allow more light into the box. I plan to put some sort of information about the toy on the back side of the box (the wall facing the bears back).
This being said I didn't bother to make that brick wall double sided. Once I put together all of the information I'll glue that onto the remaining brick wall.

Last but not least I made the prison door, this was probably the most time consuming process of the entire jail cell. I cut out a bunch of bars that I printed and then I glued them all together using none other then super glue. At this point I was getting rather tired so I slid the black base, 3 brick walls, cell door, and of course the bear into he box.






I will update once I put together the back and the top half of the box.

H.W for Andrew

1. Do one thing different from your normal routine, e.g take a new route to work or school. Or eat something you would never dream of eating (document this on your blog and you must include either a photo or sketching of the “event”)

When it comes to taking medication I'm usually fairly stubborn. I don't like to take any unless I'm suffering to a fairly great extent. I had a headache from the moment I woke up this morning. After suffering for several hours I finally gave in and took 2
Advils.



2. Take something as basic as water. The idea is to notice the number of times a day you come in contact with it. (let the user know what day you selected as “water contact day” and document this on your blog and you must include either a photo or
sketching of the “event”

I decided to take the easy way out and took the suggestion that was given on the test. Considering I didn't even get out of the house today I was rather surpristed how many times I cam in contact with water.
1. shower
2. sink in washrooms
3. toilet
4. pouring water for the dog
5. sink in kitchen

Paint Process

Painting one of my worst past times.
I was able to find a stash of my old acrylic paints, to my surprise some were still usable. As I stated in one of my earlier posts I'm going for a dark black/grayish look for my bear.
Now onto the photos.

Once I painted on the base coat for the bear it started to take form.
The only real difficult part was trying to get into all of the cracks, having a small brush came in handy at this point.


I slowly started giving the bear more colour by making the eye sockets black as well as the nose.
I even tried painting the bears ears a different colour, which ended up looking rather awful in my opinion so I painted over them again.


Back shot of the bear with the ugly ears


Once the ears dried I painted the red broken heart onto the bear. The red paint was rather wishy washey but it ended up giving it an interesting effect.
1/2 Complete W00z!!


After doing a few touch ups here and there I decided that it still needed more detail.
I knew I wasn't going to be able to do this with the paint brush, so at this point I got out my trusty Sharpie. I used it to add details to all the scars, the broken heart, the feet, the nose as well as the sewed up mouth.


A few more photos after the final paint/touch up job.
100%!!






I'm actually quite happy about how the bear came out. Andrew suggested spraying the bear with some sort of spray, to give the bear some texture. I may look into that some time this week.