The Novice

Would You Have Your Lawn Mowed by This Company?

cproval — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:28:41 +0000

Although I was immensely satisfied with this project (after Joc fiddled with the blades of grass to make them look less like chopsticks), this entry was almost immediately disqualified upon sunrise in the East following the night that I posted this. In retrospect, I should have stuck with the verdant greens of a water-guzzling fescue lawn. Perhaps the unmowed appearance of the W put them off too.

Cat and Mouse

cproval — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:54:02 +0000

A second animated gif, this one using images live-traced in Illustrator.

Ed Fella Poster

cproval — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:00:11 +0000

Ed Fella is a tricky, fun loving fella. ‘fraid I didn’t do justice to his planned anarchy, but I tried (and I was in class on Wednesday, sick but present).

The Exquisite Corpse

cproval — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:56:58 +0000

The Mandala

cproval — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:59:35 +0000

This was a color meditation; I tried to do a theme with images and couldn’t make it work visually, got too wrapped up in the meaning of things and forgot about their visual values. I chose near opposites or near complementary colors to work with and extended the two predominant colors in analogous themes. I also changed the values of the colors by superimposing white and black washes. I enjoyed working with the colors.

Work Stuff

cproval — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:27:15 +0000

I was asked to choose two articles from my magazine to give to a company that is trying to build out content in a web portal aimed at people who work in the medical field of radiology. I designed these logos to identify the source of the article and link to our web site.

When I uploaded these, I realized that the sizes appear to be way off

Guess I’ll hear from their web master

Zippity Do Dah

cproval — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:01:18 +0000

My first animation. This is fun! If you could stop the pink balloon you would see a white rubber ducky mistakenly stamped on the first balloon.

Ace of Life

cproval — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:11:43 +0000

Pink gives the medical image a rosy aspect.

Joker Has Depth

cproval — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:42:57 +0000

Map of Broken Hearts

cproval — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:31:28 +0000

On Valentine’s Day 2006, several web geeks searched the Web for breakups to create The Dumpster, a map of postings from blogs that included the phrases “broke up” or “dumped me.”