Digital Sketchbook:

The ins and outs of finding style. Some of these projects turned out quite lovely. Some of them, not so much. Every last one of them chronicles a journey, though….and sometimes you never know when looking over an old process leads to a new insight.

This creative process journal is an open sketchbook of every indulgence pursued, every half-baked idea sorta put together, and every little happy accident in one place. Take a journey from now back to the very beginning of each of these posts.

MULTIMEDIA!

BROWSE CATEGORIES:

ANIMATION

DESIGN

VIDEO

PHOTOGRAPHY

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By The Beach

ATX - June 2018. Photoshop graphic design concept art. By The Beach is portfolio practice for crpearce creative. Another piece just for fun.

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Lionface

ATX - December 2017. Lionface is some Photoshop graphic design concept art. Some more portfolio practice that people seem to like. Cool.

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Let’s Meat

ATX - August 2017. We used this as a silly call to action on the Left Turn Only website.

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Roadmask

ATX - July 2017. Photoshop graphic design called Roadmask. IDK, it's weird. I used the face as a clipping/blend mode mask for the road…Roadmask.

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Head-shot Exploration & Interpretations

ATX - June 2017. A personal multi-piece Photoshop design. Head-shot Exploration & Interpretations is all about overworking variation.

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Left Turn Only Creative Services Key Artwork

ATX - June 2017. We needed a collection of highly stylized graphics for a variety of creative services we offer at LTO. They turned out pretty cool.

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Badsmoke McSmokeface Design Practice

ATX - May 2017. This Photoshop graphic design practice piece was a fast collage. Just messing around with stock images. Fun character art though.

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Widebird

ATX - April 2017. Stumbled across some really cool stencils out there in internet land. Had a blast messing around with assets at a coffee shop.

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Paper Kiwi

ATX - April 2017. Photoshop graphic design concept art with a kiwi and paper. Portfolio practice for crpearce creative. Personal digital art exercise. It came together well enough. Nice.

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Dance

ATX - April 2017. Finally messing about with something a bit more realistic, and it wasn’t until much later that I realized how much of the small lighting details I botched. A lesson in paying attention to detail.

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Moody Flowers

ATX - March 2017. Here's what happens when directionless creativity takes over. Emphasis on speed, novelty, and composition. Some moody flowers. Photoshop.

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Untitled Aesthetic

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Pow Star (with Pink Sparkles) Desktop Wallpaper

ATX - January 2016. Pow Star is a new and improved computer desktop background image. Created and Designed in Photoshop.

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Retro Analogue Desktop Wallpaper

ATX - December 2015. We wanted a consistent desktop image on our office computers. Dark colored, retro analogue lowkey, easy on the eyes, and forgettable.

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Tuesdays with Moiré

ATX - April 2015. Some Facebook. Live long and process.

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Glitch in Abstract

ATX - October 2014. An exploration creating art from nothing. Using mobile apps to sample color space, and visually distort the data as glitch in abstract.

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(MAX) The Glitch

ATX - September 2014. Max; what a guy. Portrait was converted into a sound file four times and back in a copy loop. Layout because Andy Warhol or whatever.

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More East Austin Neighborhood Photography

ATX - September 2014. The Liberty, East Austin. Took a shitty interior photo and turned it into a sound wave for a glitch effect. Neat.

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Faceplant (East Austin Neighborhood Photography)

ATX - September 2014. This chair was discovered abandoned in a dry riverbed during a photography outing. Good snaps. Faceplant. We've all been there.

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Glitch Tree Process Exploration

BTOWN - August 2014. Another glitch art exploration. I took a photo through Audacity as a sound file and broke it before making it an image again in Photoshop.