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Welcome
Video Painting of the Manhattan Bridge
I painted this from sketches I did in Brooklyn last month. I scanned the sketches and screen-captured the digital painting process mixed with video signals. The music is by Blanco.
The Mechanical Garden
This was an art installation at the Whole Earth Festival 2009 in Davis California. I used traditional mural painting techniques during the day, including spray paint with stencils made of trash I collected. At night I pointed a digital projector at the painting and began coloring the mural using projected light. The second night I used vade’s Screen Capture plugin to project a video signal into the painting.
Web Design Gallery
Monkey Sew, Monkey Do
Greewnwood Images
Pacific Code and Label
Pete's Pest and Wildlife Control
Zoomtopia
Aaron Rogosin Photography
Web Design Information
The first step in a website is the Client Survey. I’ll use the information you provide here to build the site, starting with an project outline and a style guide. I’ll analyze your needs and decide on an appropriate tool kit to accomplish the project.
Some of the tools I use include Wordpress (for active sites with regular updates), Twitter (for social networking), Flickr (for photographic content), LaLa (for audio content) Google Maps (for geographic content), and YouTube or Vimeo (for video content).
Depending on the scope of the project, the next part of the process can vary quite a bit. For simple, lower-budget sites, I work by myself and use pre-existing templates to create the sites. Even though the templates are pre-made, the graphics and content are always custom tailored for each site, allowing me to create unique, customized sites very quickly.
If a project demands a custom template or more elaborate content, I work with a team of independent creatives. I use Michael Russell at Pivotal Writing to develop SEO web copy and Aaron Rogosin Photography to create compelling images.
Illustration
Ol Bes the Bus
Montana Night
Kyoto River Front
Sprocket Boy
Anatomy of A Frontside Flip
Freemont Bridge
Imaginary Cityscape
Bed of Eels
Room for Curbside
Xtracycle Fully Loaded
Shinkansen Passenger
Phoenix
Illustration Tools
The process usually begins where every good design does: with a pencil and paper. A pencil lets me think quickly and intuitively, and I don’t have to worry about mistakes or getting the idea too refined.
I’ll do a bunch of quick sketches for each illustration, and after I’ve picked a few that convey the idea with a compelling style, I’ll scan the sketches and bring them into Adobe Photoshop.
I use photoshop to quickly and non-destructively color my illustrations. I use a Wacom Tablet with a pressure sensitive stylus and an infinite number of digital brushes for my coloring work.
Once I have a concept sketch fully colored, I create a full-scale pencil illustration. I then ink the pencil lines in with a nib pen and brushes, using sumi ink at various dilutions.
I scan the inked in illustration and once again bring it into Photoshop to edit and color it. At this point I have a very flexible medium, I can even change the original pen illustration with photoshop.
Art Projects
Coming Soon….