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.
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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.
(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.
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.
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.
Photography Journal (September, 2014)
ATX - September 2014. Photog Journal Entry. 5 images.
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.
The TV Room Glitched Out
ATX - July 2014. A glitch art exploration using a tactic called sonification to turn images into audio files, and back again. Crappy TV room TV made in C4D.
Comic Colorist Portfolio
CHI - January 2013. Efforts to colorize someone elses inks. Nabbed some art online and went to town finding my own look and feel.
Switchyard Venue Concept Poster
BTOWN - January 2011. A concept poster for a local, informal venue.
“RISE” Character Sketch
CHI - January 2012. Some free form doodling, mucking about with characters and shapes. Nothing terribly interesting. Then I put it on a giant vertical canvas with a gradient. That made it kinda interesting.
Lazy Art Placeholder
CHI - January 2012. It's the absolute least I could muster. A Proper placeholder. Some real low effort thinking. Didn't even bother finding nice fonts.
Flyingbago (A Space Vacation)
CHI - October 2011. I'm really new with Adobe Illustrator. I downloaded some reference art, and basically traced shapes to get the van look, and borrowed various aesthetic bits from 1950s era airplanes. Boom a flyingbago! I know. It's awful. Whatever.
I Watch You (Every Night) ART CARD
CHI - June 2011. Heavily influenced by the television style design of Adult Swim's on-air graphics, I did an art card doodle. Kinda creepy kinda clever.
Angrybot (At the Moment of Ascension to an Electric Dawn)
CHI - May 2011. I'm not really sure what this Angrybot is all about. I worked fast and free-form creating an aggressive and unsettling image. Whatever. I have no idea what I'm doing.