Random Explorations

This is me ecstatically playing with brushes in Illustrator. Weeeeee!!!!!!!!!

Illustrator Goodness

So I'm learning Adobe Illustrator in the hopes that I will be able to get more jobs. Here is my first attempt at something. It's nothing special, or even cool, since I've only learned a tiny bit, but I feeling quite accomplished at this! :-)

Logo

Here's a logo I designed for, well, myself. I'm setting up a "design" section of my website, that includes product and logo designs I've done. It needs some beef, so here's some wolf-beef for ya. I don't know much about kerning, and all those crazy design things that have special names, but I do know my way around a decent composition, and what makes a memorable piece...and knowing is half the battle.

Ordered a book that will help me learn Illustrator...but for now, this one was done in Photoshop. :-). --L

"Mesa Pegasus"

I've been playing Magic: The Gathering lately, for the first time in, oh, about 15 years. My brother was really into it, which made me "really into it," but as I never won a single game against him, I soon became out of it. However, now I've picked it up again, and play with friends, and it's actually really fun! I've been inspired by the cards I remember--Serra Angel, Mesa Pegasus--but not so inspired by the used-to-be-cool artwork that is now pretty lame. Since nothing is new in fantasy-land, I thought I'd do a new take on the archetypes. Here's my version of the "mesa pegasus."

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I don't really know what this next one is...just a color sketch, or some brainstorming, or something that evolved out of some marks I put down. It's good to conceptualize like this. I need to work on making more action-packed, dynamic works...