Project 3 Color Studies

Project 3 Lighting Studies

Quick Studies

Final Study

Filter Jam

Filter Jam 1

Filter Jam 2

Atmospheric Perspective Exercise

Clouds!

Project 3 - Line Art

Project 3 Thumbnails - Round 2

My Business Card!

Project 3 Story Facts

1. Narrator walks along the top of the cutting.
2. Narrator calls out to the signal man below.
3. A train rushes out of the tunnel through the cutting.
4. Narrator climbs down the path to the signal man's house.
5. The signal man looks toward the red light and inspects the narrator cautiously.
6. The two enter the signal man's hut and they talk.
7. The narrator leaves for the night and returns the next.
8. The narrator leaves after their second meeting, thinking he should have stayed the night.
9. The narrator returns on the third night, seeing a man in the cutting waving his arm.
10. He calls down to the men below.
11. The man tells him the signal man was hit and killed by a train.
12. The narrator finds out that the specter the signal man saw was making the same motion and warning as the conductor driving the train.

Character Design Challenge

Project 3 - Thumbnails

In no particular order:

Project 3 - Concept & Mood

1. What Appeals to You: The Signal Man has an exciting, outdoor and rural setting which appeals to the themes and subjects I like to draw and paint. My vision for this project is a focus on the signal man's house, with a hint of the tunnel and signal light through a window. I think the red light will provide a good contrast with the moodiness of the scene.
2. 3-6 Adjectives: dark, unsettling, moody, foreboding.
3. Colors, Dominant Shape, Lighting: dark blues, greens for exteriors, contrasting with red from the light and yellow from the interior of the house. Emphasis on diagonals to represent the signal man's mental anguish and create tension in the scene. Lighting will be dark, with lots of shadow and small areas of intense brights for contrast.

Project 2: The Process

Preliminary Sketches:

Reference Photos:

Project 2-Work in Progress

Project 2 Ideas

1. Tying your shoes
2. Making pancakes
3. Answer a phone call
4. Use an escalator
5. Open a box
6. Take a picture
7. Become an instagram influencer
8. Quit instagram forever
9. Buy a boat
10. Avoid getting eaten by a bear
11. Go into crushing debt
12. Survive the semester
13. Fake being sick to get out of work
14. Make coffee...correctly
15. Learn to ski
16. Peel an orange
17. Build a jetpack
18. Go skydiving
19. Plant a tree
20. Recycle
21. Wear a hat
22. Drive a car
23. Go camping
24. Achieve a higher transcendental plane of existence
25. Cure a cold
26. Put out a fire
27. Wash your car
28. Take candy from a baby
29. Try a new food
30. Listen to music
31. Write an essay
32. Pull off a heist
33. Cry over spilled milk
34. Wake up successfully
35. Make a sandwich
36. Make a deal with the devil
37. Sell out
38. Go on a vision quest
39. Vote
40. Dress for the job you want, not the one you have
41. Work from home
42. Steal office supplies
43. Be a millennial
44. Deal with a hive of angry bees
45. Ride a skateboard
46. Chronically procrastinate
47. Water a plant
48. Walk a dog
49. Verbally abuse your alarm clock
50. Be a successful artist

Self - Silhouette

A Little About Me

Hello!

I'm Chris, a student at Cal. State Fullerton and freelance graphic designer. Most of my work up to now has been digital, done mostly for clients and class projects. My strongest areas as a designer are logos and branding, clothing graphics, and typography. I've dabbled in some traditional media as well and am drawn to painting and film photography, two fields I hope to be able to put more time into going forward.

Outside of art, I am obsessed with the Great Outdoors and always make time for adventure. The mountains are my happy place and whenever I'm not working on art, I can usually be found out there hiking or skiing. I try to bring my love of nature into my professional work whenever possible, drawing on the inspiration I get from being outside to drive my creativity.

Here's some of my favorite work at the moment!