Artwork

Graffiti: One of several pictures I did for a Worth1000 contest, the original image I had to work with was a comic-styled drawing. I colored the image first, then overlaid it on the building face. After tweaking the layers and colors to get them semi-realistic, I cropped out the parts of the image that would be on the windows.

iToo: This is by far my most successful graphic to date. The original image was just the eye, and it was for a contest on Worth1000. The object of the contest was to create an image showing a 'disfiguring fashion design,' or a fashion that was incredibly painful. I added the dragon tattoo using techniques I learned in a tutorial on PSDTuts.com. The graphic finished the contest at third place.

Bermuda: This was also posted on Worth1000. The contest was to create a picture showing what 'really' happens in the Bermuda Triangle. My post depicted Poseidon flicking obnoxious planes out of the water. It was one of the most complicated graphics I've done, with over five separate source photos.

Invisitrooper: One of my earlier graphics, this was done as a Worth1000 contest. It was really one of my first truly successful pictures. The contest was to erase a person from an image, leaving only their clothing. The original picture was of a soldier using a zip-line, and I had to erase the hands and head out of the image. This was challenging, because before that I had done little to no work in erasing people from images.

Anarchy Desktop: This desktop at first glance may seem like anarchist propaganda, but in reality it is an ode to my Halo gamertag, 'The Anarchist.' I started the wallpaper using a tutorial, then tweaked the effects to make the two figures turn glossy red. The original tutorial used vectors to make a background wing, but not having Adobe Illustrator at the time, I was forced to create my own vectors. After toying with the styles I came up with the 'fiery' effect.

Exploding Name: This was done shortly after I did the Flame Swirl image. This is apparent, in that there is little difference in the overall design. The only major changes were that I added more vector brushes to the ends to give it a sporatic, exploding look, and experimented with burning the edges of the letters as well.

Space Scene: I did this wallpaper design after reading a tutorial on making a similar effect. This was the result of several failed attempts at creating a scene of my own. The stars in the background were done by simply adding noise and toning down the levels, and the eclipse was done by manipulating several brush tools. The nebulas were colorized clouds that I masked into a wispy shape.

Ferris Bulldogs: I did this wallpaper as a personal project. I'm going to Ferris State University this year and I wanted to show some school spirit on my desktop. To make this, I created a layer style that made the outline of the letters only and left the middle blank. Once I did this I duplicated the layers close to 20 times and moved them all slightly, giving the glowing neon effect.

FSU Flames: This was another 'school spirit' wallpaper that I did, based on a tutorial I found on PSDTuts. I highly recommend this website to anyone interested in high quality Photoshop tutorials. This was a fun tutorial because flames are some of the funnest and most difficult things to render in Photoshop and this tutorial showed an excellent way of using a photo of flames to enhance letters.

Space Scene 2: I did this as an art show project. It was an enhancement of my other space scene picture, which is also on the site here. It improved on it by adding detail to the planet, as well as rings and a more interesting star field. It looks more natural to me because the planet has a texture and the starfield looks more broken up and random.