Interesting New Project

I'm a little confused and yet excited about my newest Digital Art and Design class project. In it, we have to look for things that may tell viewers something about us, like for instance our name, our school, our hometown, and anything else that we can think of. Then we have to form a 5 page website with it. I've never made a website before, although I do know html very well.

Here's a link to the Project if any visitors want to try it out themselves, just for fun:

Imagination Overload: Preview

COMING SOON...

CD covers

I really enjoy the CD covers challenge that I did for class, and so here is advice on how to do it yourself:
1: go to a random wikipedia page- that is your band name.
2: go to the random quote page- that is the name of your number one single.
3: go to flickr's most popular images and choose the third image for your cd cover.

I hope to spread the fun of this project to everyone. It's tons of fun.

Digital Art as a Statement

This is from yet another contest that I decided not to enter at the last minute. This is inspired by an x-ray, a technology used to identify fractures in bones. I compared the fracturing of bones to the fracturing of a child's psyche when they are bullied. This is a movement that I strongly support, as a person who was bullied as a child.

Photoshop Animation Project: Further Inspiration

I'm thinking of doing an abstract surreal horror short, (It has to be about 30 seconds) which would lend itself well to photoshop. To inspire myself, I am posting some more videos from wonderful artists, (including more Brothers Quay, because they are fantastic).







I'm thinking of a riff off "The Cat With Hands", because it truly is wonderful. Wonderfully creepy of course, but wonderful.

Joan + Joan = ?

This is my Joan Jett + Joan of Arc project. It was difficult to use a drawing and all, but I am very pleased with it. Other people had both a harder time and an easier time cramming celebrity faces together. Me? I wanted to make a statement. With music becoming more and more ridiculous over the years, artists that actually made sense like Ms Jett fade into obscurity, as do our historical heroes, hence the use of Joan of Arc.

Granted it's not funny, showy, or anything flashy. But it makes a statement, and that's what art should do.

Happiness in Three Parts

This is my latest project in the world of Digital Art, a Triptych. A triptych is a grouping of three related images. At first you might ask "what does a kitten, a little girl, and a turtle have to do with anything?" Well, you see, my theme was the many escalating expressions of happiness. The turtle with his tattooed, ragged back and above the clouds soaring represents tranquility and contentment. The little girl represents joy, as she runs up the rainbow to greet her parents. Childlike joy is one of the greatest emotions in the whole world. The last image represents ecstatic behavior and overenthusiasm. The little kitten is so happy that he has three mouths to smile with. Also note the appearance of the rainbow, it grows larger as the level of happiness grows larger as well.