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Electronic
College Brochure 
Cover Ideations
Content Ideations
The goal of this assignment was to invent your own college and create a website or a brochure for it. My college was the Phoenix Institute for Creative Individuals, and I chose to do a brochure. My concept involved black, white, and rainbow--all combined to create a sort of subtle "noise." [For example, the black text in the background of the cover, or the random strokes in the background of the other pages.] Due to the black/white/rainbow combination, their really is no color scheme, aside from... well... Neutrals and the entire color spectrum. The structure of the layout follows emphasis and rhythm heavily.
[This was a really fun assignment, and I had a good time doing it. The lines of text in the background of the cover page were especially delightful, seeing as I took three days to finish typing all of it out.]
Three-Piece Product Design
A long-term project that involved creating three products that were linked together by a common theme. There was supposed to be a Primary piece, a Secondary piece, and an Accent piece. At the end of the project we were supposed to create a large-scale, detailed rendered drawing of all of our products. My concept was a simple black metal frame with clear glass on the inside, thus the term "The Invisible Box." All of my designs are symetrically balanced, and they follow the rule of "form follows function." They're very modern designs; minimalistic, simple. Doing the large-scale drawing severely improved my skills in rendering.
Parent/Teacher Conference Flyer 
In this assignment we were given a list of text, certain images, and some minor guidelines, and we were told to create a flyer for the upcoming parent/teacher conferences. This was the design that was chosen to be used for the actual flyers.
DPS Art Show:
Poster
Poster Ideation
Postcard Front
Postcard Back
Design for the DPS art show poster and postcard.
Restaurant Remastered; Target: Top Dog
In this project we were required to choose an existing restaurant and create a new logo, menu, business card, package template and magazine ad. The restaurant I chose for this project is a Coney Island called "Top Dog."
Project Research
Logo: Colour
Logo: Grey
Logo: Ideations
Logo: Selected Ideation
New logo for the win. In grey and colour. Drawn by hand, outlined in Illustrator, coloured in Photoshop--and it took so much longer than it should have.
Menu
The new menu for my restaurant, Top Dog. This is a three-fold menu, as is shown by faint dividing lines that can be seen in fullview. The top half of the image is the outside of the menu, and the bottom half, respectively, is the inside. Food items were taken off previously existing take-out menu.
To-Go Box Template
Packaging template; created from already existing template. I recreated itin illustrator and edited the dimensions to make it vaguely hot-dog shaped. The logo was applied to the top of the box, and I was done. This design seems a bit lacking, but I decided that, based on the nature of the restaurant, that a more simple and less fancy package would be the way to go--thus the absense of a lot of detail.
Business Card
Simple business card. Basic information; restaurant, location, phone, fax, etc. Done in Photoshop, used filter to make it have a cloth-like texture to immitate the cloth-like paper sometimes used for businesscards.
Magazine Ad
Magazine Ad Ideations
Magazine ad for the restaurant. I combined the logo, a picture of a hot dog from Coney Island and a picture of a burger, and simple information on the poster to create this design.
Shape and Text
This project required us to encorporate text and a photograph of something into a design.
[This is another project I'm not too enthusiastic about. It's okay, but it looks too plain and... boring for my taste. I like the quote, though...]
Magazine Ad
This project involved choosing a company and creating an advertisement for said company. My company was called "Duralee."
[Putting it nicely, this isn't anywhere near my favourite project. I don't at all like how it turned out. The shadow's all queer.]
Puma Ad 
In this project we were assigned a sub-brand of Puma and were sent to the website for that brand. Using the layout of the website, we were supposed to create an advertisement for a single shoe found on the site.
[I really liked the results of this one. It was a pain figuring out how to do the layer mask for the shoe, and getting the shoe itself was a pain. I had to zoom in to the separate parts of the shoe, screencap, and then take the different pieces into Photoshop and assemble them until they made a big shoe. One of the more tiresome projects, but it was worth it.]
Final Exam -
Part II 
This was part two of our first semester final exam, in which we were required to make an advertisement directed towards a certain demographic using only the images provided to us by the teacher.
[This is one of my favourite projects that I've done. I really liked the concept, and though now I could probably do much better, for my skills at the time, this was a very good piece of art.]
Mouse Design 
This project we worked on for several weeks; it involved doing research and then designing a computer mouse that was ergonomically correct and followed the rules of design. Then we had to sketch it out, and once we finalized our design we took it into Rhino to create a three-dimensional rendition of it. We were also required to make a PowerPoint to present our idea, which is included below.
Final Project 
This project went hand-in-hand with the Mouse Project. We had a choice to either create a new product or a box for our mouse, and I chose the latter. We had a research stage, an ideation stage, a development stange, and then an electronic stage. And, needless to say, we had to make a powerpoint explaining the whole thing.
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Manual
Speed Forms 
This project was drawing speed forms with speed-line shading.
[These were my best three speed forms. Really fun to do, if not brain-rotting. The last one kinda got sliced off on the scan, which really sucks, but it's fairly easy to imagine the remaining part--just finishing the circle. I should probably go back and re-scan it, but who knows if I'll ever remember to.]
Shading Example 
This is an example of one of the shading techniques we had to learn; pencil shading with a B pencil, applied to the sphere.
Rendering Project 
Here we had to apply all of the shading techniques we had learned [Stippling, hatching with pen, hatching with pencil, marker, shading with H pencil, shading with B pencil] and use each at least once in the ten shapes required [two squares, two spheres, two cylindars, two cones, and two pyramids]. This is my first and best page. The second image is a copy of the page with descriptions and evaluations of each shape.
Cylinders in Perspective
These are four examples from a larger set of cylinders. We were learning to draw circular perspective images by drawing a box, finding the centerpoint, and creating a circle inside it.
Observation
Various drawings from observation, subjects are all products from IKEA.
Materials: Variety of pencils that I do not remember.
Time spent: Each separate sketch took approximately five-to-eight minutes.
Andy
A portrait-thing of my friend Andy.
Materials: 4H, 2H, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B pencil; Trillion.
Time spent: Hour and a half.
Sky Maiden
Random chick sitting on the moon. Experimenting with style.
Materials: 2H, HB, 2B, 4B pencil.
Time spent: Approximately an hour.
Angel Thing with Crazy Hair
Angel with really funky hair. Photoshopped colour layered over the sketch. It was just an experiment and wasn't all that serious, but I liked the effect.
Materials: 2H, 2B, pencil; Photoshop.
Time spent: Approximately two hours on the drawing, half hour to forty-five minutes for the colouring.
ARTISM
This is a collaberation of the word "ARTISM"--a random word I thought of and decided to doodle--drawn in five different designs. After scanning the page in, I edited it in Photoshop and cleaned the images.
Materials: Pencil [various hardness], coloured pencil, pen, Photoshop.
Time spent: The ARTISMs were drawn on separate days, but each separate design probably took around five-to-ten minutes. The Photoshopping took anywhere from five minutes to half an hour for the more difficult ones.
Below is the original sketchbook scan--raw and completely unedited.
Maybe I Won't Die Alone
This piece was inspired by "Die Alone," by Ingrid Michaelson. This is actually a second draft--the image was darkened in the final, and the black stripes were less messy.
Materials: 4H, F, 2B, 6B, 8B pencil.
Time spent: This was drawn in the span of about an hour, and I spent about another hour or so touching it up in random points through the months it lie stagnant in my sketchbook.
Old Lady Kat
This started out as a picture of my friend Kat, but it morphed into a slightly more exaggerated, mildly abstract, old lady-esque... thing. Definitely a new colouring style for me, but I have been exploring the anatomy style a bit more in other works. I took the image into Photoshop for cleaning up, as I submitted it to the art collection in my school; Lit Mag.
Materials: 4H, 2H, HB, 3B, 6B, 8B pencil; Photoshop.
Time spent: The original sketch took around forty-five minutes but the shading took about an hour. The Photoshop editing took between half an hour to forty-five minutes--making it about two and a half hours total.
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Other
Woman With Guitar
This was a little thing I did in my spare time from a design excercise I made up. It involved making a series of nonsense shapes in Illustrator and then assembling them to show a picture. After about ten minutes of experimenting, I decided on the image of a woman holding an instrument, and rotated the red form to look like an abstract guitar.
A Different Point of View
This is a photograph of a tree that I found in Thornley Court. I absolutely loved how there was the lush green leaves on one part of the tree, but that one branch was completely bare.
Fascination
A photograph of my friend holding my peachick Noah. I didn't like how it looked originally, so I took it into Photoshop and threw on a few filters. I really liked how they changed the image so much.
[model: Courtney Bousamra]
Solitude
Another photograph of my friend. [She was looking very beautiful that day.] Sitting by the roses at Thornley Court.
[model: Courtney Bousamra]
Solitude III
Yet another of my friend. There was a series of three to these pictures, but the middle one looked iffy so I left it out.
[model: Courtney Bousamra]
Like Graphite
Photoshopped, taken roughly a year ago. Not my best work, I don't even like it that much, but I thought the contrast of light and dark was cool, and I don't have much else on hand right now.
[model: Carly Cowin]
Feather Series Project
This was our final project in Design Concepts II. We were required to pick a topic and create a series of at least three designs based around that concept. The subject I picked was feathers--the concept; showing the difference between reality and perceived reality.
Feather Ideations
Series ideations. Designs marked with a [o] are designs that were chosen for the final project.
1: Perspective Feather
The first feather I worked on; it was the most complicated of my projects and it took nearly two weeks to complete. I took the wing feather from a peacock and set it up against a black matteboard, and then took several pictures to show the feather rotation. I took each stage of the rotation into Photoshop and arranged the feathers to appear as if they were fading gradually into the foreground.
[The result was nothing like my original ideation
, which is kinda cool and kinda not--though, I like how it turned out in the end. Just a fun fact, not including the feathers [which are approximately two or three layers each] the composition of the background alone is nine layers.]
2: Realism Feather 
A much simpler feat, this project was to convey the difference between a real feather with a graphically altered image of a feather. I photographed the feather and took it into Photoshop, where I edited the colours to make it a faint neon tint. I printed the image off, and then cut a square in the picture. The original feather was mounted on a board, and I placed the image over the feather, with the cut-out posed so you could see the original feather beneath. This is meant to be a physical piece that would hang on a wall, but it has been photographed to go on the portfolio.
3: Cloud Feather
I created a very simplistic cloud in Illustrator, and printed it out. Two guinea hen feathers were arranged on the surface of the "cloud" and photographed. This project is probably the most largely contrasted one--what with the plain, minimalistic cloud in its graphically-constructed perfection, and the busily patterned guinea feathers, which are very organic and natural.
4: White Feather
This was a two-part project, contrasting with the design below. I arranged a number of white-toned objects on a piece of white satin and photographed them in a number of positions--this being the final selection. I took the image into Photoshop and edited it to make the image a more pure white, and emphasized the feather while toning down the ivory charm in the UL corner. The goal of this project was to compare the values of different white objects.
5: Feather Board
Using the same piece of satin and the same feather as the project above, I wound the material around a piece of wood and attached the feather to the board. The effect is lost somewhat, since the design is a physical one, but has been converted to a photograph for the sake of my portfolio, but alongside each other, these would contrast in a number of ways--real and photograph, busy and simplistic, three dimensional and two dimensional, et cetera.
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