Dear Old Grandfather

This was a difficult project. We had to save our selections in order to efficiently color every part of this old picture. I used Dust and scratches with the history brush tool, the clone stamp tool, and to color it I used Hue/Saturation Mask. It was tedious, but I'm happy with the result. I tried using mostly pastel colors, nothing too saturated so the era of the image would still be intact. He was missing an eye and there was a terrible line left probably from a fold. But that was no match to my favorite tool (clone stamp). The Quick Mask brush came in handy when dealing with minute details, like the clothes and bridle.

Killer Bee Bookmark

We were given a bee vector to make these bookmarks. I think this might've been another PIASC contest, but I'm not quite sure. I manipulated the stinger to look like double "L's". I used a honey-like gradient for the background and I made a hexagonal pattern as a honey-comb.

Handsome Guy

We had to rewind time in this project. I removed his man's wrinkles with the clone stamp tool, whitened his teeth with the dodge tool, and saturated his eyes with a hue mask. He's now the "handsome guy" he used to be. To prevent an alien-like look, I put his original picture with a low opacity over the new one: it adds a natural look.

Melody of Words

We had to make designs for a t-shirt the school was making for their annual Melody of Words event. The pages of the book were hard to do. This was originally a drawing that I scanned in and traced with the pen tool on illustrator.

TIME Magazine Cover

This is by far my favorite work. I aspire to be an Industrial Designer, therefore I found making a cover like this appropriate. My intention was to show how my crazy and silly nature will allow me to make breakthroughs in our society. TIME magazine is generally red, but since it's based on the future....who knows what color they'd be next. Plus, I found it appropriate for the topic: designer, rebellious, etc.

Family Touch Up

This was the first project based on the history brush tool and dust and scratches. We had to reconstruct the nose of the man sitting down. We were not allowed to use the clone stamp tool too much.

Restaurant Logos

We were given a list of restaurants we can choose from, in order to make a logo. These are the options I set out for myself. All of these are vector images. The green elephant was the hardest to create because it originally wasn't a vector image. It however, was my favorite.

Restaurant Identity

This is the final result of the logo I used for the restaurant: a letterhead, a business card, and an envelope. I was going for a modern/ southeast asian fusion. We had to use drop shadows to create some differentiation and depth.

CREW

We had to edit the rips and abnormalities of this photo. This is where I first learned how to use font masking and embossing. I used pillow embossing.

Commodities to Culture

We were given a excerpt to integrate into this project. I had to pick various "commodities" to culture online and orient them pleasingly on colored boxes. I used a lot of gradients and my intention was to put emphasis on the hands holding the globe. I went for the urban look because American culture has been very urbanized.

Zoo Postcard

I think this is one of my first photoshop projects. The emphasis of the assignment was to learn how to create border by manipulating a canvas. I used the colors of the lion for the font.

Soda Label

This was for a PIASC contest. I was going for a sinful look, hence Eve and the apple. The bubbles were hard to make. The vector image is from the option our instructor had given us for "Color Predictions." I intended for the flavor and theme to tie in well, therefore if you notice...it's based on the apple Eve bit and it's apple-flavored soda. I thought it would be witty.

MRS Business Logo

This was for a business that had asked my instructor for a new design for their company. I guess their previous design looked like "Mrs.", not "MRS." I orginally had a better font for the nouns (Helvetica Neue Ultra Light), however it was hard to read with circular background. Unfortunately I had to change it to something boring. I masked the circular "metal sheet" vector.

Fashion Show Ad

This is probably one of my favorite works. The assignment was to create an ad for a Spring Fashion Show. I tried to make an airy and light-hearted look. I was really cautious with color usage because of the spring theme, therefore I made sure I didn't use rich or deep colors. I was tempted though... haha. My favorite part of this work would be the leaves and the color variation I made for the word "Color." I used a drop shadows for the flowers for a more 3D look. I used "command + J" to make the swirls. The vector image of the man was given with a list of other options by our instructor. To make the leaves look like they're moving with the wind I used the symbol scatter tool and I played around with the other symbol option to make them vary in size, shape, and direction.

CD Covers (Front & Back) for Kaskade

I was assigned to make a CD cover for a musician. I chose my favorite Techno DJ Kaskade. His music is very ambient and rich with sensual tones; I tried to recreate his music style on the cover. I like what I did but I find it a little too sensual and passionate for a techno album (maybe better for Jazz or R&B?).

Symbol Art (Tension, Scale, Playful, Congestion, & Pattern)

This one of my first projects in Graphic Design. The objective was to create artistic representations of certain words, i.e. tension, only using keyboard symbols. It was a bit of a challenge for a novice as myself at that time, but I was happy with the end result.

Jesus Christ Superstar

Not one of my favorite works... But I needed to put something up... My class and I made these posters for a school play that's coming up. I used a lot of drop shadow and outer glow. Since it was Jesus themed, I though I would make a headphone version of roasary beads...unfortunately I wasn't able to depict how I imagined it. There weren't enough options for rosary beads online. I used the brush tool for the headphone shine.