Tag: Artists statement

  • Project Spotlight: Diamond EP

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    Diamonds EP The Diamond EP is a short Lo-fi Hip hop album. Moreover, It was my first music design project and a major learning experience. Initially, the Diamond EP was inspired by the passing of a good friend. They introduced me to many styles of music, and aspired to be a producer themselves… Style To…

  • Project Spotlight: Iris Color Scheme

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    Iris Iris is a high contrast color scheme for the Alacritty terminal emulator. This is a project that I had been considering for a long while. Not just for Alacritty but, as a general design guide. A simple, complete color palette can be a great aid in creating consistent designs. Alacritty Recently I started using…

  • Graphic Medley

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    A Graphic Mashup I’ve been very busy designing. I’ve been revisiting techniques I’ve talked about before for example, kaleidoscopic images, glitch art, 3D computer graphics, and fractals. As well as synthesizing these techniques to create new concepts. I’ve been exploring a new fascination with color gradients, as well as revisiting some old projects like my…

  • Glitch the Art of Malfunction

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    Glitch is one of my favorite visual styles. The way technology malfunctions has always been interesting to me. I get a strange satisfaction when the tracking on VHS tape is off or composite cables on an old video game console fail to connect. The artifacts and distortion caused by these vintage machines has an electronic…

  • Planet Project

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    Planet I’ve continued to learn about 3D computer graphics, and as I learn new techniques I like to use them to improve old projects. In this new render of a planet I used two new techniques. First, I used volumetric lighting to make the setting more atmospheric. Then, I used a partical simulation to emulate…

  • Circuit Series

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    Cities of silicon I’ve continued to venture into the exciting frontier of 3D computer graphics. Furthermore, I’ve been experimenting with modeling retro futuristic technology for a project. Computers are interesting to me for their function However beneath the chassis there is a living world of circuit boards. Moreover, they are like miniature cities driven to…

  • 3D: The Third Dimension

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    3D Design 3D computer graphics is one of the most rewarding design spaces. You can use three dimensional graphics in many ways. For instance, you can create photo realistic scenes or convey abstract ideas in an accurate way. Moreover, computer generated images straddle the boundaries of fine art. For example, sculpture and painting could be…

  • Aquatic

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    A Creature Lately I have been captivated by the peculiar. This is part of the reason for the long interim between this and my last project. Some of the things I have been working on in the meantime are too strange to publish. I wanted this drawing to convey a bublbousnous of the optical anatomy.…

  • Deer Skull

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    The Bone Yard When I was a child one of the fist activities my grandparents wanted to show me was hiking. They took me up into the mountains to explore with a cattle bell around my neck to keep track of me and my cousins, whilst scaring away the monstrous creatures lurking in the woods.…

  • Jellyfish Revisited

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    Amorphous Sometimes I spend weeks exploring the same subject. The series of German castles I drew is a good example of this. I tried to draw the same types of lines in different ways with great repetition so that by the end I felt I had some mastery over that method of drawing. Castles are…