Self Portrait In Illustrator

Had this idea for a self portrait in illustrator that I have been wanting to do for awhile now. I like jellyfish if you cant tell by now.

End of year Thank You Card

One of our latest projects for class was to make a end of year "gift" to give out to clients to help promote ourself further. We had to make it and not just buy something from the store. I ended up making a thank you card with a gift card that would promote the client to use my services again. It is a gift card for 25$ off the next project they do with me or 25$ off a print of any of my pieces of artwork.

One Letter takes anywhere between 5-15 minutes to assemble and it costs 62 cents to make just one. That is envelope, gift card, and letter.

More Jelly

Had this idea for a new jellyfish picture so i started playing with some sketch ideas....this is what I came up with....it is actually nothing like i was trying to make....so I will probably have to try again sometime, maybe pick a different type of jellyfish.  Anyways this is what I ended with tonight.

Blending Tutorial

We had to make a tutorial for our photoshop class. It has to be under about 10 minutes long and be able to be printed out. I just did a really simple tutorial on how to do some blending.

Finnegan

As my wife and I sat at the laundry matt tonight I thought it would be a good time to work a little on the character design for a graphic novel that has been bouncing around my head. His name is Finnegan. (mostly because thats where he was thought up by my wife and a friend and I late one night drinking coffee). He is a tall middle aged Irish Cook aboard a zeppelin know as the Valkyrie. He may be big but he has a big heart. Also Finnegan is missing an arm but has multiple attachments that he uses. With some Attachments there is an Adapter that allows Finnegan to connect to the piece of equipment, enabling him to use it as though it was a natural limb on his body. This Adapter was invented by Walter, another character in this story.  It converts the energy from the body into energy that can power the equipment.

Old Sketch New Color

So I was looking through an old sketchbook from high school for some fun doodles that would maybe look cool colored. Sure enough I found an old character design that I made in about 2003-05 sometime, a rat warrior. Put it in photoshop and worked on it. No change to the original line construction just colored in and slightly darkened. Did two versions. one full color and the other one I liked with just the plain color background.

Lucky the Rocket man

So I started this doodle about 2 hours ago and its a little past midnight and I have work in about 6 hours...ug... :-( really wish I was doing this for a living already. Its hard for me to put a drawing down once I start it. Anyways here Is Lucky. He is an English/Irish soldier of some sort who has a rocket launcher and is missing a hand. Just a quick simple concept. Funny to think I started to draw a crazy naked mole rat but it ended up being this lol. still not sure if thats a bad thing or good......o well naked mole rat another night i guess...anyways hope you like it. I need sleep now, goodnight everyone.

Yet another digital art piece from Photoshop. Im trying to do more concept art...Hopefully sometime in the future soon Ill work more on some digital art techniques so I can get a lot of fun diverse pieces.

Greeting Cards

Along with the Mutant animal Project we where also given a mini project to make a Christmas card or some sort of greeting card that can be used by Photographers. So basically a greeting card that allows photgraphers to easily put their pictures into the card and then enables them to order a bunch of the cards. I went through zazzle.com to make mine.

Here is a link to my still very small Zazzle Store. Go to the store and click on the card and your'll be able to see how it works. :-)
http://www.zazzle.com/Ratula


Heres my card and the person in the picture is my brother.

Mutant Animal

In photoshop we got assigned to mix 3 animals into one mutant one. I combined a rat, cheetah, and a rooster. its called a Taroostah. Hardest part about the assignment is finding decent picture of the same hi rez. Felt like I could of done better but what I did do was kinda crazy looking none the less. Hope it amuses you :-)

squid mermaid

So I had a friend who was talking about wanting a tattoo of a Mermaid but instead of a woman/fish he wanted a Squid/woman. While waiting for a class to start I doodled a few fun quick sketches that turned out pretty good. Got home and decided that I would give it a go on photoshop. It seemed like it would be a good excuse to practice some digital painting. Here it is Hope you enjoy.  I really had fun making it :-)