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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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.
The Mechanicals Web Series (2011)
CHI - Surreal short stories from robot roommates that don't know how to love.
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.
Shat on the Beach (Another All-Star) (2011)
CHI - February 2011. Days before the Chicago Snowpocalypse of 2011, on the shores of Lake Michigan – a music video featuring Star Trek, the Music of Smashmouth, and the barren landscape of a lonely heart was born.
Yellow’s City
CHI - January 2011. Very drab this time of year in my new city. Not surprised though…it’s the midwest. Oh well, it came out in my practice sketch today. I don’t think I’m particularly good at drawing perspective but that’s okay.
Sports Car Caravan Short Film (2010)
BTOWN - May 2010 A short experimental film about life, love and the open road of commercial consumerism. Created for Campus Movie Fest, Sports Car Caravan took ‘Editor’s Choice’ at the Indiana University screening.
Old Is The New New
CHI - February 2010. These computer desktop wallpaper sentiments seemed clever at the time. But really, I just don’t know how typography works. Probably need to focus on that more. Anyway, let’s move on…
