kickball

First design I pitched to my a friends kickball team. I really liked this one, but the team name turned out to be UNTOUCHA-balls so this slick retro logo got scratched.

Accent Chair

ANOTHER CHAIR! This one is the same color as the last one. I must be putting a living room together.

Vintage Couch

Vintage couch. Trying to make something for Sami and this is part of it.

Kansas City Web Idea

Haven't posted in TOO long! I've been trying to learn some new stuff, so I started a project where I can work on several things at once:

1. Learning how to make better websites
2. Getting better at working with illustrator and photoshop
and 3. Getting to know a little bit more about the city I live in

So here is what I've been doing in illustrator in my spare time, and then I'll explain for my own benefit below, because no one reads this.

 Alright so I'm thinking about making a site of an illustrated Kansas City. Each building or icon or whatever it is, will have a pop-up with a brief history of the area or site on it...
I'm playing around with a few different ideas.

a. STYLE - The orange buildings above get less proportioned starting from the kauffman and going counterclockwise. I'm trying to decide how "cartooney" to get with these.

b. COLOR - So most of these are orange because i was thinking about having a white background and grouping areas of town into certain colors (downtown sites are orange, rivermarket sites are red, etc.) But now I'm thinking as I get further I may want different types of places to have different colors, for example architectural landmarks are purple, historic sites are green, and residential areas are blue.

c. GETTING ABSTRACT - Some places I want to have icons representing the site or area, especially when the idea of the place is more meaningful than its actual appearance. That is why the Disney house above is just a generic house with a fantasia hat on. So Im trying to decide if whole areas should get icons, like one that wraps up 18th and vine, or power and light...

d. GEOGRAPHY - most of KC is in a pretty good north to south line, but there is some good stuff east to west from us, like the Truman home, the sports complex, kansas speedway, blah blah blah. I don't know how I wanna deal with this yet, since I want this to scroll up and down. hmm.

Thats all for now. Kinda wordy, I know.

Wood Eames

Another chair. This is an Eames. Love the shape of these chairs, especially from the back. I've been really wanting to get outside of my box on Illustrator, so I made the wood grain, and had to use the clipping mask. I can't believe I've never used that before.
I should probably start a separate blog for chairs and lighting. Ha.

Modern Lounger

Update! Came back to this one. Added The light fixture, shadow, and rug. Feeling PREEETTY good about it. Drawing furniture might be my new thing (for a couple weeks). Here ya go!

The light looked cooler before I rasterized it... I had one of those fancy filament bulbs in there, and you can still kinda see the bean shape of the the glass lamp, but it's all a little washy now.

I also made the shadow (of the chair) cartooney looking and I like the way that turned out. Normally I copy the image and twist it to where I want it, but I'm just gonna draw it from now on. This and the swivel chair below make good desktops.

Modern Chair

I drew a chair.  Not child oriented hmm? Maybe I'll do a kids guide to modern furniture, or modern art called "My kid could do that". Ha!

(P.S. HI SAMI! What you think?)