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Bridging Modern Art

Dean — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:29:52 +0000

After going to the beach on Thursday my friends and I took a trip to the Chicago Art Institute and finally got around to checking out the ‘new’ modern wing, but for only a little bit since we were getting tired and hungry after a long day. I think checking it out a whole lot more merits another visit. I love that place. Anyway, we exited via the bridge to Milennium Park, here are some photos from that part of the visit.

One day, I will build an actual working human Pong game. Until that day, I have this picture to dream about it.

ESF Logo Design

Dean — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:39:43 +0000

I’ve been working with the Edgar Sanchez Foundation a bunch lately and I proposed a redesign to their logo. Here it is:

Neither Can Live While the Other Survives

Dean — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:44:29 +0000

Okay, I’ll admit that I’m a Harry Potter freak now, as my friend Alice says. I recently finished the series. I know — I’m like 5 years behind on popular culture. I’m glad to have read it all though. While JK Rowling isn’t exactly the greatest author in the world (see dialogue attributions like “Ron ejaculated loudly”), I felt growlingly attached to the imaginative plot and endearing characters just by breezing easily through page after page (too many pages).

Anyway, I was bored last night and thinking about the last film after coming across its trailer in my nightly Google Reader browsing. I picked up my sketchbook and made a quick sketch of that one confrontation scene at the end of “The Forest Again.” Then I started playing around in Photoshop and applied base colors and found a neat forest background.

While it’s not perfect, it feels good to mess around with drawing/coloring digitally again. I’m going to mess around some more with the original drawing (and fix things like Harry’s giraffe neck, Voldemort’s limp hand, funky folds, etc.) and sketch some more stuff.

Drawing notes:

I originally had Harry and Voldy closer, but it sort of looked like they were about to lock lips. Um..
At one point I had Harry wearing a North Face fleece, so I gave him a cape to make him look less like sorority girl and more wizardly.
I think my Voldy is part Martian Manhunter, part Skeletor.
I think Nagini is supposed to be in a cage in this scene. Whatever.
I had Nagini coil around sort of funkily. It looked like Voldy had a coffee mug handle popping out of his back.
Coloring with the polygonal lasso and paint bucket tools seemed easier to me than using the brush and eraser tools with a mouse. I miss having a Wacom tablet.

Seal Cub Clubbing Club Pubcrawl Design

Dean — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:09:46 +0000

Some friends wanted me to draw up a t-shirt design for their pubcrawl. I designed this simple one pretty quickly, but it does the job.

I hope a few will appreciate the Cooper Black everywhere. What a kitschy font. But I’m especially proud of the baby seal. If anyone wants to start a softball team that’s our logo. And our name will be the Nippon Seal-Fighters.

THIS. AIN’T. SPARTA!!

Dean — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:15:43 +0000

Here’s a quick t-shirt design I made tonight for my house. The hardest part was pen-tooling out Gerard Butler, for everything else I found free vectors on the internets. There isn’t a theme for homecoming this year (I wonder who dropped the ball on that one), so we decided to do a “300″-based float since we’re playing Michigan State (Spartans). Except the tables have turned. The ethnically offensive Chief Illiniwek will be kicking the lock-jawed Sparty the Spartan into a strategically-placed bottomless pit to his own doom. Or enjoyment. One could consider the fall to be like a never-ending ride on 6 flag’s giant drop, and more flags, more fun, ya know? PS. I love Adobe Illustrator.