Website Project

Griff Works

Well, Google made that easy. I suppose I'll be keeping this for work opportunities and such.

Gifmania: Video Project

Gifmania

When I'm not drawing I do a lot of art that involves found objects. .gif animations are as populous as something one would find rooting around in the trash, or in this case folders. I like to think that this compilation expresses the hecticness of the internet, as well as the randomness.

The Dragon Tamers (Animation Project)

The Dragon Tamers is a short story by E. Nesbit, written in the early 20th century. I first read it in the book The Book of Dragons, which was a collection of dragon related short stories, illustrated by Michael Hague. (Who also illustrated The Hobbit, Wind in the Willows and The Wizard of Oz among others)
The story involves a dragon who turns into a cat by eating nothing but bread and milk and becoming quite tame in the process. That was my idea for the theme of transformation, which I decided to tackle literally. I wanted a stop motion feel for the gif, so I created the images out of shapes and repositioned them, saving as a different jpeg every time.

You can read the full story here: LINK

Vector Self-Portrait

I wanted to be happy with this, but I just really don't like how the face came out. And as much as I tried to fix it I can't wrap my head around realism. Oh well. 

Visual Poetry

So sticking with the fantasy theme I seem to have for all of my art, I chose one of my favorite childhood movies, Flight of Dragons. The beginning of the movie has a theme song written and sung by Don Mclean, famous for American Pie. I chose the lyrics of that song as my poem, since I'm terrible at poetry and can't stand half of it anyway. I then hand traced a still from the first scenes of the movie, during which the song is sung, with the pen tool. I was able to then fill the tracings with text by putting the text into Illustrator and exporting them as jpegs which I would then create patterns out of for the fill tool to use. 

Dragons are cool. 

Favorite Textures Scanned

I didn't actually get a chance to use the middle one but it was still nice. 

Texture Mapping Project

This was my Texture Mapping project for ART 291. I started with a photo of my Irish cousin's jumper Dover's Rover. From there:
I cut and pasted the tail and wing onto the horse body. The wing I used the mesh warp on to give it a more concave look.
I used the quick-mask tool, then inverted it to select the neck so I could
more accurately place in the blue around the neck. I used the clone tool to
fill in the gaps.
For the face I selected part of the markings around the eye of a peacock,
then pasted that in, using the opacity slider to make sure I was erasing
correctly. Then I used the clone tool to drag the markings down so they
fit over the rest of the face.
The mane I cut and pasted, and then cloned as well from the comb of a peacock
then used the opacity slider to erase around the ears.
The body and legs are also products of the clone tool used after careful
cut and pasting.
I then went over the image with the blur tool to blend edges, and the burn
tool to create shadows.
The background was taken outside of Philadelphia at night, and is sort of
an afterthought but I do like suburbia at night.
I call it: The Peahorse. I'm not terribly good at naming things.

I like to think I gave Rover a more fantasy feel, and yet at the same time was able to ground the image with a suburban background.