The Blog
Production journal, sketchbook, and personal record of this creative journey.
Ouroboros
10/27/2020 || Art
This Giddy Future: OUROBOROS is a cinematic loop in loving blacks and dark greys exploring visual metaphors of infinity. Meditative and full of tension.
E N D L E S S S U M M E R COLLECTION
8/19/2020 || Art
Debuted August 19th, 2020. This Giddy Future: E N D L E S S S U M M E R collection. A vaporwave/aesthetic inspired post-glitch series of nostalgia.
FLOW STATE COLLECTION
8/6/2020 || Art
Debuted August 6th, 2020. This Giddy Future: FLOW STATE collection. A post-glitch series capturing statements of pure harmony between operator and machine.
My Podcast Post Production Workflow
5/9/2019 || Magazine
I want guests feeling comfortable and willing to open up about their journeys, experiences, and inspirations – and I can get there quicker with a lightweight setup in a back yard far easier than scheduled studio time
I Think Airtable Saved My Professional Sanity
1/24/2019 || Magazine
Having my long history and wide wide breadth of url resources all sorted and organized for my own weird quirky brain has helped me work faster
GuideGuide is a Very Useful Extension
1/17/2019 || Magazine
This is one of those small simple tools that has become so consistent and useful in my Photoshop workflow I immediately notice its absence anytime I’m producing content away from my personal workstations.
I Like Using Post Haste in Post Production
9/19/2018 || Magazine
It duplicates a prebuilt folder tree, and also supports some straightforward name replacement. Post Haste is my favorite free “boutique” app for post production workflows (with something like Jarle’s Presets probably coming in a close second).
By The Beach
6/16/2018 || Sketchbook
Photoshop graphic design concept art for Left Turn Only, a creative design agency in Austin Texas. February 2018.
Pointless Sliders for Left Turn Only
2/8/2018 || Sketchbook
Photoshop graphic design concept art for Left Turn Only, a creative design agency in Austin Texas. February 2018.
Left Turn Only Style Art
1/2/2018 || Sketchbook
Photoshop graphic design concept art for Left Turn Only, a creative design agency in Austin Texas. January 2018.
Lionface
12/18/2017 || Sketchbook
Photoshop graphic design concept art. Portfolio practice for crpearce creative. Personal digital art exercise. December 2017.
2017 Austin Art Board Winner: Infinity Hallway
12/7/2017 || Announcements
With over 2 million Austinites in the metro area, The Austin Art Boards competition calls itself the “largest outdoor gallery in Texas”. Reagan Advertising maintains their unused OOH large billboards as a curated, rotating art gallery throughout the city.
Speed Practice, Photoshop 11.10.17
11/10/2017 || Sketchbook
Photoshop graphic design concept art. Portfolio practice for crpearce creative. Personal digital art exercise. November 2017.
Roadmask
7/11/2017 || Sketchbook
Photoshop graphic design concept art. Portfolio practice for crpearce creative. Personal digital art exercise. July 2017.
Headshot Interpretations
6/27/2017 || Sketchbook
A personal multi-piece Photoshop design exercise completed June 2017.
Creative Services Style Posters
6/14/2017 || Sketchbook
Key artworks representing a variety of creative services offered. Originally for the Left Turn Only boutique creative agency.
Bad Smoke McSmokeface
5/5/2017 || Sketchbook
Photoshop graphic design concept art. Portfolio practice for crpearce creative. Personal digital art exercise. May 2017.
Paper Kiwi
4/17/2017 || Sketchbook
Photoshop graphic design concept art. Portfolio practice for crpearce creative. Personal digital art exercise. April 2017.
Moody Flowers
3/16/2017 || Sketchbook
Here’s what happens when directionless creativity takes over. Emphasis on novelty and composition. No clear purpose. Photoshop. A personal exercise completed March 2017.
The Nuclear Family
8/14/2016 || Sketchbook
This is a style poster (that almost predicts the end of the world) designed and created for LTO social publishing. August 2016.
Thingie
7/28/2016 || Sketchbook
This artwork design was created for the Left Turn Only brand, it was used on a lot of social media platforms. Photoshop. July 2016.
Untitled Aesthetic
2/24/2016 || Sketchbook
A featured creative exploration, February 2016.
Pow Star (with pink sprinkles)
1/11/2016 || Sketchbook
A new and improved computer desktop background image. Created and Designed in Photoshop. January 2016.
Retro Analogue
12/12/2015 || Sketchbook
We wanted a consistent desktop image on our office computers. Dark colored, low-key, easy on the eyes and wholly forgettable. Photoshop. December 2015.
Glitch Abstractions
10/6/2014 || Sketchbook
An exploration creating art from nothing. Using mobile apps to sample color space, visually distort the data, and iterate into beauty. October 2014
MAX (The Glitch)
9/28/2014 || Sketchbook
A glitch art exploration, September 2014.
More East Austin Neighborhood Photography
9/9/2014 || Sketchbook
Glitchy Wall Light (Liberty Bar, East Austin) – A glitch art exploration, September 2014.
East Austin Neighborhood Photography
9/3/2014 || Sketchbook
“Faceplant!” This chair was discovered abandoned in a dry riverbed during a photography outing. September 2014.
Glitch Tree
8/6/2014 || Sketchbook
A glitch art exploration where a photo I took was run through a sonification process and finished in Photoshop. August 2014.
A TV Room
7/9/2014 || Sketchbook
A glitch art exploration using a tactic called “sonification” to turn images into audio files, and back again. July 2014.
Restoration Coloring for Digital Comic Books
6/28/2014 || Magazine
A breakdown of the comic book coloring restoration process I have been involved with, while working on Marvel Comic properties.
Rise
1/9/2012 || Sketchbook
Free-form doodling, mucking about with shapes. Nothing terribly interesting. Then I put it on a giant vertical canvas with a gradient.
Lazy Art
1/5/2012 || Sketchbook
It’s the absolute least I could muster. A Proper placeholder. Some real low effort thinking. Didn’t even try hard to find a nice font.
Flyingbago (A Space Vacation)
10/23/2011 || Sketchbook
I’m really new with Adobe Illustrator. I downloaded some reference art, and basically traced shapes to get the van look, and borrowed bits from airplanes.
I Watch You (Every Night)
6/5/2011 || Sketchbook
Heavily influenced by the television style design of Adult Swim’s on-air graphics, I did a doodle in a kinda creepy kinda clever vibe. Lots of Photoshop stamps.
Angrybot (At the Moment of Ascension to an Electric Dawn)
5/11/2011 || Sketchbook
I’m not really sure what this work is all about. I worked as fast and as free-form as possible creating an aggressive and unsettling image.