GOOD
This is a digital ATC (artist trading card) done with images from sxc.hu. The size is 2.5 X 3.5. The finished card for trading will be mounted on mat board and trimmed with gold leafing around the edges. This card is inspired by a contest held on deviantart.com on the ATC Fanatics page. The theme is guardian angels. I took the title from a tune I really dig by Better Than Ezra, called "Good."

SHORT SLEEVES
Digital collage using photos from sxc.hu. Appropriate for the season.

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR RENDERING PROJECT

This was a challenging project given as our final in my Rendering class. What had to be done was:

1. Find a high resolution photo of a vegetable
2. Use Adobe PhotoShop to posterize the photo
3. Render a realistic illustration in Adobe Illustrator of the vegetable photo
4. Create a seed packet for Ferry Mose seeds in Adobe InDesign using the rendering
5. It must be a fresh design

I had to break my photo apart, and use a gradient mesh on each element on separate layers to achieve the realistic, yet, painted look I got for this illustration. I knew what I wanted when I set out to do it, but getting there was a real challenge. Once I got the color laid in, everything else sort of just fell together. Figuring out that I would have to break the photo apart to get my meshes to work right was the hardest part. The cracquelure effect was applied to each layer to get the texture. I got an A! Yay!