I used a Wacom tablet over the summer to do illustration for my job, but having one at home allows more time for experimenting with the tablet’s possibilities. I recently used the tablet to colorize this sketch in Photoshop CS2. It took about 30 min. You might remember the original sketch being posted here.
Illustration: concept-heavy work
Here are a few of my final Illustration projects: This was done in watercolor and represents a world record. The world record I chose was a man who could balance a car on his head. I chose to make it seem like an everyday occurance The prompt for this illustration was to represent the number […]
Back to the Future
Back to the Future For me, the design work I’ve done in the past sometimes inspires or informs me about where I should be going with my design in the future. I sometimes look at old artwork or design of mine and wonder how I ever did it because I don’t feel I’m currently creating […]
logo design. gecko style . I finally got to puttin…
logo design. gecko style .I finally got to putting the “limber” gecko into my existing gecko mathematics logo. I wanted to appeal to kids by making it look like it’s crawling around… a sense of movement in a still image. I started out by rastorizing the ‘o’ in gecko and cutting parts of it out […]
Yet Another Gecko I’ve finally created a likable g…
Yet Another GeckoI’ve finally created a likable gecko for the gecKo mathematics project. The previous versions are here. I made the feet smaller and curved it’s body
“what the heck’s with geck?” continued… I recei…
“what the heck’s with geck?” continued… I received valuable feedback on my first try at a gecko. These are my changes, I reversed the color to be dark on the edges and lighter at the center, made the eyes less scary, and made the gecko skinnier with smaller back legs. On a technical note, I […]
“what the heck’s with geck?” That’s what the prof…
“what the heck’s with geck?” That’s what the professor said her husband told her when he heard she was calling it Gecko Mathematics. I echo that same question. But I’m going with it, for now anyway. I’ve created an emblem. It’s only about 3 quarters of the way finished. My Process:I first sketched a few […]
On the (Photoshop) Drawing Board gecKo mathematic…
On the (Photoshop) Drawing Board gecKo mathematics I’m working to complete all the secondary pages for this website, then I need to brainstorm ideas for how to present a math workbook online so that parents and teachers can see the teacher manuals and student workbook all on the same webpage. For all you teachers out […]