Class project from early 2000s

I was given an assignment to do a cd cover. I chose to do DJ DNA. I used to really like this cover, but now I only like the back. The front was done in Illustrator; the back is my eyeball with a blur effect on it and the back DNA strand from the front imported into the eye. The text was done in InDesign; this was either b/c the professor said to do so, or b/c I just felt like using a third program for nothing. The barcode was done in Illustrator.

Photoshop composite inspired by "Inhuman Capabilities"

This is a piece I did after listening to "Inhuman Capabilities" by Mr. Lif and Akrobatik. If you haven't heard the song, lyrically they do what "the average human cannot." For fun, I decided to work on a concept inspired by the song. The song had comic book and fantasy references in it, so I wanted to reflect that type of idea.

I used a photo of a mannequin's hand from sxc.hu. I don't remember where I got the image of the Vitruvian Man on its hand. I combined the two in Photoshop and added blur effects. I think I used some sort of other function in Photoshop's blending options to enhance the effect of the Vitruvian Man, but it's been so long I don't remember.

Dav-Man

Done in Flexisign. I believe I found the pacfont on Dafont.com. They have all kinds of crazy fonts and dingbats. I like looking at this now because it looks like I'll never have to have trouble paying bills again. 27 days until Basic Training as I post this.

Chomp Fighter

I did this piece sometime in 2006 when I was working as a designer at a sign shop and business was either slow, or we were at the end of the day. I'm not sure why I was drawing a hot dog that threw potato chips, but I was.

For those of you not familiar with video games, the arrows at the bottom represent what's called the fireball command. In some games, moving the joystick in quick succession in that direction plus a certain button at the end of the motion causes your character to do a special attack. It's common in a lot of those types of games, and the first time it was used, it was used to throw fireballs, so gamers know it as the fireball command.

This was done in a program similar to Illustrator called Flexisign that I used in the sign shop. It does most things much faster than Illustrator. It's similar to Corel Draw, but works faster than Corel too. The only thing is I'm not sure if it's able to do some of the things Illustrator and Corel can do visually as far as things being more realistic. Sign shop design is like designing classified ads or phonebook ads, so you don't usually need to do anything more realistic.

Game card design

This is a playing card design that I did in Computer Illustration class when I was at the Art Institute of Atlanta. It was a personification project, and somehow I chose to do a lollipop. I worked from sketches and used Illustrator for the final piece. The piece is done in complementary colors.

Barca vs Arsenal teaser poster from 2006

I did this piece for fun. I don't support either team, but I'll watch either when they're on tv. I wanted to do something like boxing or UFC does on their posters where they have the fighters, then a picture of the arena they're going to fight at, so since the final was in Paris, I used the Eiffel tower. I guess I did this around the time the actual game was on.

It's a Photoshop composite. The picture of the Eiffel tower is from sxc.hu. That's my main stock photography website. It was black and white, but I added color to the sky in Photoshop. I imported the team crests and UEFA logo from my collection of soccer crests I found on the internet. I used the perspective tool on the crests. I don't see that tool used a lot, but Photoshop and Illustrator have one. It's useful for the types of things I do, and I like seeing things in other ways other than just straight on sometimes. I think the font is Bank Gothic.

ATL 2010

This is the third cd cover I did for DJ Atlas. "ATL 2010" is a compilation of Atlanta's more well-known rappers like Gucci Mane, etc. It's done in Photoshop and Illustrator. I believe I drew the shapes in Illustrator, then added the glow in Photoshop, and the chrome text was also Photoshop. That's the way I usually work. The font is Borg9, like the people from Star Trek, I think.

I consider myself an illustrator first, so I wanted something that felt like a hiphop cd cover, but I didn't want it to be a rapper photoshopped into a fake setting like I feel like I've seen too many times. Or sitting on a vehicle. I think the whole thing has a logo-type quality to it, especially the inside cover. What do you all think of it?