Graduation Mural 2010 for IA

I spent the last few days making a mural for the graduation at Indiana Academy (where my parents work) this weekend. Lots of hard work. The Seniors really wanted to help paint...adding a few extra hours to the process, but having a lot of fun.

The mural is about 30ft x 12ft.

Children's Mural (Color Rough 3)

Illustration Friday word of the week: Early
It's too early to wake up!

Seahorse done with colored pencil as a study for the Children's mural.

Children's Mural (Color Rough 2)

The word of the week for Illustration Friday was "Equipment." Crabs make me think of bulldozers...not sure why :)

On this piece for the Children's Mural I tried a little more color. (Photoshop)

Children's Mural (Color rough)

Fearless or Unwise?
As I'm working on a Children's Mural over the summer, I thought I'd tie it into the Illustration Friday's topic for this week.

This week I'm starting to see what colors I'll be using. Haven't added the colorful sea plants yet. Made in Photoshop.

Closer detail:

Children's Mural (prelim sketches2)

A few more sketches for the Children's Mural I hope to be working on over the summer.

3-D Dinosaur in Maya

I finally finished my 3-d model...up to where I'm going to, anyway.

Next 3-D modeling will be something different!

Thanks so much to Wenie, Marcelo, Vance, Chris, Wes, and, of course,
Lynda, for helping me get through this!

Here's a close up:

Children's Mural (prelim sketches)

Over the summer I hope to complete a mural at a church for a children's room. The teacher mentioned she would like an underwater scene. I thought it would be fun, so I started putting together a few character sketches.

IUPUI Greening Logo Contest

IUPUI has begun a Campus Sustainability Initiative and created several contests (for logos and slogans) and openings for grants for ideas and proposals on how IUPUI can become more sustainable.
In March, Dan and I collaborated on a logo and slogan idea to enter the contest. We ended up with 5 great ideas, so we decided to submit them. Just this past Monday we found out that our idea was chosen as logo and slogan for the IUPUI Sustainability Initiative. Needless to say, we are very happy about it! They couldn't decide between two of our ideas, so I'll be working with them to refine any details.

These are the two ideas:

Salseros del Barrio

For the past several weeks I've been working on a few things (logo, poster, ticket, website) for the Salseros del Barrio. They are a student Latin Jazz band put together about 4 years ago by Pavel Polanco-Safadit for the students at Indianapolis Public Schools. It focuses not only on developing cultural pride, self-esteem, and musical talent but also to keep kids in school.

I'm very proud of the progress they have made, not only because of all the presentations and media acclaim they've had, but because the students have improved their attendance and grades.

On May 11, the Salseros will be having a concert, together with Direct Contact, a professional Latin Jazz band, to raise funds for purchasing instruments and other expenses. If you're interested in supporting them email silvan@ips.k12.in.us.

Poster

Concert Ticket

Website

If you'd like to know more about them, visit www.salserosdelbarrio.com

Moose Character

A classmate asked if I'd help her create a character for one of her 3D animation projects. She wanted him very smooth, very simple. I left him like this thinking it might be easier for her then to create him in 3D.

Poster for Youth Rally

Taking the same image from the Youth Rally t-shirt design.

Character/Creature development

I've been wanting to create some sort of creature and in looking for inspiration I came across some great pictures of Betta fish. I loved the fullness and colors of their fins, so I decided to start from there.

IF - Muddy

Remembering my younger years :)
(Although I didn't use an umbrella or rain gear!)

IF: Wilderness

One of my favorite subjects; the jungle! I put it on my business card.

Here's also the background I'd like to develop further:

IF - Renewal

I just completed this T-shirt design for a Youth Rally taking place in February and realized that it went rather well with the Illustration Friday topic of this week.