Category Archives: Art History

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With this one we were tasked with designing an abstract digital art piece, which is basically using the canvas to convey some kind of emotion rather than a specific image. I was in a particularly good mood when I did this, and apparently when I’m feeling this way I produce colorful fuzzy images. Ha ha. This one started to look kind of like a caterpillar to me by the end, but in the interest of sounding “artsy,” I think I’ll call it, “The Explosion of a Lonely Star” just to make people think. Either way, I received positive accolades from everyone who saw it. Hooray!

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Here’s a flyer I just finished for the Full Sail Student Gallery. I’ve had this image of the colors of light floating around in my mind for a while now. My foundation for this comes in no small part from my good friend Ben Phenicie who does a lot of work with bright colors… of the neon persuasion. Ha ha… any way, as a new student I’m pretty excited that this will be used school wide.

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I actually don’t like this piece. But in the interest of keeping an accurate log of my design work at Full Sail, I decided to include it any way. We were given an assignment to do a digital painting which mimicked either prehistoric or medieval art. Obviously I chose to do a prehistoric cave painting. This image actually popped into my mind as I listened to “Robot Rock” by Daft Punk. I think it was the phrase “robot rock” being repeated over and over again that influenced my decision to place the two Daft Punk guys (who coincidentally look like robots) on the face of a rock. I was actually working on a medieval piece when it hit me, and having just impressed myself by my own whit, I decided to scratch what I was doing and work on this.