One of my favorite directors is Guillermo Del Toro. And I recently saw his recent movie called The Crimson Peak, in behind the scenes he described the main character as butterfly and described the movie like a painting palette. Because of this film, I was inspired to create an angel with heads as an illusion as wings. 

I am such a huge horror fan and one of my favorite films is Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. This was a project to make two images in one picture. I tried to show the dark imagery and suspense in this digital drawing.

I know this is not a digital design but this is a landscape I painted my last break of Christmas. During this time I tried challenging myself out of my comfort zone and try something new with landscapes. In my surprise I fell in love with painting landscapes and I mostly painted with a couple of refrence, but I mostly made everything up in my head. 

In this week I was working on this project it became very challenging for me. One of the reasons its because I did not know anything about typography. And it was difficult for me creating an educational poster of typography to arrange the letter, but also make appealing to the viewer as well.

For my client, I included a flyer for her business. I tried to make it simple as possible, because I do not want to over overwhelm the viewer with so much detail in the flyer where they cannot read the message. And I tried making it balanced as possible.

These are logos I designed for my Design Communication class. One part of the assignment was to create a logo for a client and the other for my own logo as a designer. 

The first two are my own logos and my whole goal was to give that artist look, because I love art at heart. The logos with a crown and the needle are logos I designed my client for a local business. The logo with a crown, I tried giving a fun creative way for a logo since her business is called "Royal Formal Wear." And the other I made the logo into a needle, because her job is fixing clothes for a living.

                                                                           
This project is still not done yet, but I hope the message comes clear enough. The subject is that most people try to take advantage of the government's money and the few good ones that really deserve it, but do no qualify for whatever reason are the ones that are truly suffering. Later on I will post the final image so the message seems a bit more clearer.

To create the digital sketch above I took most of inspiration from one of my favorite tattoo artist named Jesse Smith who is a new school artist. In this piece he did is called "The Dumb Politician" representing that our government is running us blind.

I am mostly a hands on person and that means I love to paint and draw so this is a painting I did for my painting I class in the Fall semester of 2015. This class made me realize, I love to paint landscapes, before this I have been painting comics and cartoons, but I grew tired of it and I wanted to challenge myself even more. So I guess you can say this is my first real landscape.

The second image is the digital version of this painting, I just took a picture of it and tried to make the colors seem more vibrant than the real life painting.

Another one of my assignments was to fix a flyer for my Design Communication class. Since I was assigned to use Adobe In Design to make flyers, was very difficult for me, because I was new to it. Since I previously made a wedding invitation in Photoshop, it was difficult for me. 

This flyer was suppose to be an Gypsy event, so I tried my best to keep it balance and importantly clean, because I want the audience to easily get the message in this flyer.

I was assigned to create a business logo. So I asked my local seamstress that I usually go that usually fixes all my clothes if I could create a logo for her business. The first thing that came into my head was a needle with yarn circling around it all the way to the bottom. And to create this logo I used the Adobe Illustrator Cs6.
Since I normally love to draw this was really easy for me, but I had to try my best to not put as much detail, because I am the type of artist where it is hard for me to not put as much detail. Because taking the easy road is difficult when it comes to drawing and painting.

The first pink invitation was my first one and I was just playing with it, so it was more of a rough draft. This is the final wedding invitation that I came up with it. As I was working on it I learned when it comes to doing wedding invitations always go with black, whit and silver. I learned the hard way that adding pink on a wedding invitation may mislead the audiences.

First wedding invitation to design for my cousin

uneven

     

unbalanced

light

Blue knights

The Plagues of Babylon by Iced Earth single "Plagues of Babylon" talks about a disease that is released upon society. As humans we commit many unforgivable sins, and it talks about the plagues it is referring to our sins. And like a disease that we can't escape the plagues refers to our sins that contaminate us and make us weak the longer we go.

The film Pumpkinhead is about a father who deals with the loss of his only son by summoning a demon that will haunt the teenagers who are responsible for his son's death. This image is newly illustrated and designed to attract the new generation and other people who are fans of the franchise to purchase for Halloween. The image shows a demon summoned at night ready for its next victim. The reason its called Pumpkinhead, because its buried in a patch of pumpkins even though it doesn't have a head of a pumpkin. The moon represents the many nights its summoned to haunt its victims.

The classic gothic horror tale Frankenstein by Mary Shelley about young Victor Frankenstein creating the legendary monster that we is very well known today. The cover shows thunder behind an old castle with small scars around the cover as a border. The thunder is the main thing in the story, because that is what made the monster come to life by Mr. Frankenstein waiting for the right moment for the strongest thunderstorm to appear in front of him. The castle is also a very important element in the story, because that castle is where Mr. Frankenstein locked himself away for months from society to work on his creation. The scars represent the monster that Mr. Frankenstein created, from outside and inside, because the monster had to face loss, fear and the feeling of abandonment by his creator.     

Darrell Finnegan is a studio artist known be doing pottery. He won the Serving the Client award, that his colleagues and students recommended for him to get. In his pottery works he uses the principles and elements with space, lines, color, repetition, light, textures and patterns. With his pottery, he makes different shapes and sizes by making jugs, plates, mugs and more. For example, he made and painted and repeating spots on the jug and making it different sizes; also making those spots into a pattern all around the jug. He used space between the spots to help create a form around it. In another pottery creation he made he used line and textures around, he made the lines evenly proportion to one another and it also helped make a pattern as well. He uses light and color to help them make form, he paints them with a darker color and makes it fade to another tone helping it create an evenly tone with one color.