ILLUSTRATIVE WORK
Merchandise Applications
The following is a sample of some of the work I have done with illustration and a bit of my process. All illustrations were used in some sort of practical design application.
SKULL GRAPHIC
Initial Sketch
Inking
Flats
Gradients
Shading & Highlights
Typography
Process Work
I started this project with a thumbnail sketch and then brought it to Clip Studio Paint to sketch it out. I decided I wanted to exaggerate the point of the jaw more and dropped the goatee when I went to inking. From there I did the flat colors, shading, and added some custom typography in Illustrator.
Phone Case
T-Shirt
Merchandise Samples
These are some examples as how the graphic could be applied to merch on sites like Redbubble or Society6.
DELAYED GRATIFICATION
Concept & Process
This was a project I worked on with my peer Kyrin Van Heise. We were inspired by the recent trend of videos using the time-displacement effect and decided to create some of our own footage to use as a jumping-off-point for some unconventional design ideas.
Merchandise Samples
These are some of my resulting designs from the project. My goal was to see how far I could push the time-displacement settings in Premiere Pro and inspire something that was interesting but still visually-balanced.
LWTECH PRIDE
Loose Sketch
Form Breakdown
Color Sample
Vector Creation
Finalized Colors & Typography
Process Work
This was a t-shirt design for the Lake Washington Institute of Technology's Pride Month celebration. Their mascot is a lion so I thought it could be fun to do something with that — especially since groups of lions are called prides.
I started the design by sketching a basic lion and then segmenting it into shapes with contour lines. From there I did a quick test of how the shapes translated without line work. After I felt satisfied with the overall look, I built out the design in grayscale on Illustrator, then made my color selections. The last step was to get the typography to flow with the design.
T-Shirt Sample
The final design was printed on a black shirt and let the colors really pop. These were given out as participation prizes to incentivize online participation during the pandemic.