Tarpon Head Study

This Tarpon, brought down in January by a cold front too far south into Florida, was frozen and shipped north. His donor card allowed him to inspected, documented , Gyotaku-ed, sketched and immortalized.

The head study above was rendered with stippled pen and ink, then colorized in Photoshop.

His death was not in vain.

Digital Production - Project 7 - eNewsletter

The concept I have for this project was to present an email newsletter trying to maintain awareness of the limits of email browsers. I wanted to present some of my Illustrations to entice readers to visit my website, the ultimate goal of the email.

To avoid the appearance of being a direct webpage, I decided to combine a few of my illustrations into a single image which would show the detail of the individual works, yrt illustrate the message of the email itself. Direct connections to the website are offered by 3 buttons, and a link on the name, Ichthyography, Ink . Websafe Verdana is use for text, and the other styles of Font are offered as images, generally part of a logo or a link.

The entire concept was kept to one “page” area with a live screen of 800 X 600 pixels, keeping both the text and tempts imagery available upon opening the email

Digital Production - Project 2 - Alternative B&W Logo

In revising the logo from assignment two, I wanted to make an image-text logo with the same idea process as the first one..

I wanted to break out the image of the tree from the design to clarify it, and uncomplicated the first letter, D. I wanted to make the logo easier to read, even at smaller sizes, and a bit more organic.

I sketched out the composition, went with Black and White, drew the tree in Pen and Ink
on Mylar. I then scanned it into Photoshop, where I adjusted brightness and contrast, sharpened, and sized the image. Then I brought it into Illustrator and incorporated the text part of the design. I used Papyrus font for an earthier look, more homogenous with the tree, and incorporated the tree icon into the text.

Finally, I brought the Logo into Indesign, set up guidelines, and added the contact information text, and create the business card.

Digital Production - Project 4 - Web Page Design

Revising the first webpage design, I chose to create a new studio logo in Photoshop, focusing on one of my recent illustrations using a subtle lighter colored palette for the page. Link Buttons were made from close-ups of eyes of several of my pieces, illustrating the Slogan, “eye for excellence”

The portfolio page features the original thumbnails of my illustrations as link buttons, a smaller version of the logo, and the same subtler page colors as the revised web page.

The top navigation bar includes Home, Portfolio, About the Artist, and Contact.