Picasso's Three Musicians

For a 5th grade Spanish class project I wrote a report on Picasso and accompanied it with a colored-pencil copy I drew of his oil painting, Three Musicians.  Since then I have always loved the painting and finally saw it in person this summer at NYC's MoMA.  Here is a photo of the original, my recreation of it using Illustrator, and then my drawing altered in Photoshop to look like a plastic engraving. 

Three Musicians (1921) Pablo Picasso, Oil

Three Musicians (2010) Adam Reifsnyder, Vector Art

Plastic Image

Photoshop Creations and Misc

These are miscellaneous photoshop files I did for fun.  The first is a message from our President, made from a combination of about 7 different photos.   

I think Obama's second love (after basketball) is bumping (string) bass. 

This was taken close to CSU's campus downtown.

This is a cheesy "Self-Portrait" exercise I did for a class.  I like is the guitar image with text over it and the gradient, but the whole thing looks like something we would've had to do with magazine clippings in the third grade.

Just some practice doing touch-ups on photos.

 

A pic I took at a park in Macao, China last year that I recently found, unaltered.

 

Hair (the musical) Poster Design commission

I was hired by the Surfside Players theater troupe in Brevard County, Florida, to create a series of posters, flyers, and logos for their upcoming production of "Hair."  I was given the copy, some restrictions and guidelines on some of the type, and pretty much free reign on the idea.  The previous designer had been working in Microsoft Paint (?!), so I also helped the troupe convert existing boilerplates and logos to vector artwork so that it can be more easily resized to be used for future show posters, etc.  My thanks to the Surfside players for the work!

This was the original postcard I designed for the show.

This is a smaller ad which was printed in grayscale in their local paper.  

Finally, this is an 11x17 poster with a boilerplate that contains their sponsor information.

Quick logo design

This is a logo I designed a few weeks ago for a project.

UPDATE: Click to see this logo used in a layout

HDR Practice

Today I shot some series of photos to practice making HDRs, or High Dynamic Range photos.  These were some of my favorites, shot in and around the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) building off of Euclid Ave.  I had to shrink the files down a good deal to get them to upload, so the quality is much less than I had hoped.  Oh well.  

Vending machine art.  Yummy. 

Any guesses as to what this is?

Poor bike.

  This last one is by far my least favorite of the bunch - I couldn't get the image cropped the way I wanted it.  It was originally a picture of a construction crane over the sunset, and somehow it got down to this.  I think the sky has an interesting color, though.  

Original Illustrator Drawings and Cartoons

Here are some original drawings I did on Illustrator for fun.  The first was from a few weeks ago and was inspired by the speed skating I watched non-stop during the Olympics.

"Christmastime" began as an exercise in tracing the face and torso from a sketch in a sample of CS4 artwork, and it evolved into an Xmas card cover of sorts.  

Finally, "Wormy' Adventures" resulted from a stream-of-consciousness drawing session.  I guess I was in a children's book kind of mood.