"Shut down all the garbage smashers on the detention level!"

I'll be posting my projects that I'm doing as well as smaller exercises and assignments if I feel like they're worth noting. This particular piece was a postcard that we had to design with an emphasis on either "risk" or "safety". In keeping with my machinery binge that I've been clinging to lately, I decided to collage bunches of differently rendered pieces of machine together in layers in order to make the looming trash pile look more dense. The bottom layer is a neutral medium grey value with stacks of either painted or inked layers on top. And of course there are my little Jetsons/Despicable Me-esque robots down there:

I like those little guys. One of my classmates said that they are male and female robots, and the male one is trying to impress the female one.

Why Can't I Quit You, Siege Tank?

Ah, finally the first update in a while! I've already spearheaded my way into winter quarter 2011 at SCAD and have just completed my first legitimate "project" in my Type and Image class. Here we had to design three of our own custom letters. After playing around with a few different aesthetics for my letters (including tribal, fantasy, and haunted house), I eventually settled on robots and technology for my overarching theme.

I did the pieces completely digitally using Photoshop and Corel Painter and with it, this project cemented my initial feelings for this kind of art that I had first felt back when doing the "toilet paper" assignment last quarter. I really do accept the digital medium in my art now, and actually I am beginning to prefer it to any other method of working. There are just certain things with painting digitally that are much more convenient and plain easy when compared to traditional painting technique. Needless to say, I am looking at purchasing my own tablet in the near future... 

I spent quite a while on these and I'm actually pretty proud of them. They remind me a lot of Terran structures from StarCraft, as I had that sort of design in the back of my head when figuring out how I would create the letters.

Our professor required us to go out and print our designs and mount them on black board. I decided to print them all out on the same canvas in order to make matting easier. Here's how they looked in arrangement when I printed them together: