My work with the NorCal PCA

This past month, I have worked alongside the Northern California Peace Corps Association (NorCal PCA) on creating promotional media for their upcoming benefit concert titled, "Support Girls, Support the World". Proceeds from this concert with benefit not only the NorCal PCA, but also the Bay Area Girl's Rock Camp. It's all about teaching girls empowerment through music. You can learn more about this event by clicking the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/events/201011853393325/?ref=2

As for my input in this project, I came up with 2 designs. One was just plain text while the other was a 60s rock inspired poster. The team decided the rock poster fit the bill more. In the end, one poster became a poster, a flyer, as well as postcards with 3 color variations. Here's what I came up with:

My First Creative Allies Contest was a SUCCESS!!!

Four months ago, my sister had told me about this website called "Creative Allies", where artists come together to create art for different bands ranging from posters to merch and so on and so forth. As I scrolled through the different contest, my eye was drawn to the artist "Olly Murs". I had heard his music before and decided to see what the contest was all about.

After reading the rules, I set out to make my poster. The contest was to create a mid-20th century movie style poster to promote the US release of Olly's CD, "Right Place, Right Time". We could reference songs, his dapper style, as long as it followed the guidelines. After sometime, I submitted what I thought was a simple yet concise design, hoping for the best.

About a week later, I received an email telling me my work had been selected as one of the Editor's Picks. I was so excited, since this was my first experience ever entering an art contest! It reassured me of my style and my abilities. Unfortunately, I didn't win the contest. But although I didn't win the big prize, I did win a personal goal.

You can check out my poster, along with the winning design at the link below:


http://creativeallies.com/galleries/7wg-Editors-Picks-Olly-Murs

Vector Logos

So my sister had asked me to create a logo for her that should could use for a sticker. These are the designs that ended up not being used:

 

The first design was a cheetah cub. She said she wanted an animal that she liked. But in the end, it just didn't fit what the subject matter. It's still cute though!

 

The next is a woman. It ended up getting past on too since she didn't like it as much. I on the other hand like it enough to keep working on it. So this is more a WIP than the final product. I want to add more texture to her wrap. 

New Drawing!!!

So I finally felt like finishing the drawing I started  on Feb 24th. Now the date may say it took me from the 24th til today, but in actuality, I didn't work on it everyday. I believe I drew this piece in about 3 days with a bunch of null time in between.

I honestly powered through the last bit so it's not perfect, but I'm happy with the finished product. I also decided to make a gif to show the progress of the pic. I hope you all like it. Oh, and this is another picture of Marlon Teixeira with another model (I don't know her name). I find it really fun to study black and white pictures like this to help with form and value.

My Very First (and Last) Sculpture

 This was made back in college of 09 for my Sculpture class. I have to say this was one of the most fun classes I had during my college years. We basically sculpted all day while watching Robot Chicken and other movies that utilized the art of Sculpture.

For our final assignment, we were to create an alien, a "MIB" inspired agent, and a weapon. I went for a Mexican theme, and decided my agent was from Guadalajara and was investigating a "chupicabra" case. Here's the 2D turnarounds for what I created:

Agent Roseny Santiago

Howler

And now the sculpts:

 

I'm very proud of the work that went into these pieces. Unfortunately, my sculpts were damaged coming home from college :\ But at least I have pictures 

Something Old and Something New

So as I'm starting this new journey of finding a job that combines both what I spent my college years learning and doing something that I'm passionate about, I stumbled upon some of my old college work. I'm making some gifs as we speak to showcase some of that, but for now, here is something from my "Atavii" project.

Our level was inspired by Morocco, so I took it upon myself to create decals that we could use to create unison with all our assets while also referencing the inspiration. All of these decals were handmade by me in Photoshop. There are 40 in total and some were very simple, while others were more extravagant. I played a ton with geometric shapes and floral patterns.

Now as for the new, I recently picked up my "Motivation Sketchbook" again and drew something. I used pics from my "people2draw" folder, mixed two pictures that I liked of Marlon Teixeira, and here is the end result:

 

I hope to get more work on here soon. I'm currently drawing a new piece, making those gifs, and hopefully getting some concept work in too. 

 

My First CD Album Art!!!

So for the past couple of months, I have been working on my very first album cover. And it's finally time to reveal what all the hard work has paid off with!!!

The artist's name is Socorra and she is an incredibly talented indie/pop artist who writes her own songs. You can check out more about Socorra and her music at socorramusic.com.

The photographs were taken by Renée Vargas in San Francisco CA at various locations. I retouched the photos and added the flare here and there haha. My favorite part of the album is the back. I actually manually made all the song titles by editing the original picture. Here's what it looked like before: