Skate deck Design

For this assignment, we had to create a design for a skate deck. My design began with brainstorming a concept centred around an 8-bit theme. Originally I was going to make everything literally, 8-bits but that plan fell on deaf ears, as it would take too much time to make custom sprites, and i preferred drawing. My design idea came from the concept of the old atari Donkey Kong game, the one where mario has to climb up several ladders while dodging barrels, in order to save Princess Peach. Although donkey kong is not a dinosaur, and theme we had to use was related to dinosaurs, although Mario's greatest nemesis is a dinosaur, King Bowser. So I then decided to take the concept of that old Donkey Kong game, switch Donkey Kong with a T-rex, Mario an archeologist, and barrels with fire balls. The images I did not make myself was the floor, and the fireballs which I found on the internet and traced over.

Here are the screenshots

 Here is the final masked image. The final skate deck.

Bunny Sketch

In this assignment, I had to make a bunny sketch. Pretty straightforward assignment.

T-Rex Poster

For this assignment we had to create a poster and a poster style guide for a T-rex tooth. We had to base it off something similar to the ROM. I came up with the colours by random, selecting both warm and cool colours. I chose Gill Sans because it looks professional, while cartoony and eye appealing at the same time.

Here is both the style guide, and the T-Rex Poster.

Video Game Review

For this assignment, we had to review a video game. I chose Little Big Planet 2. Here is my in-depth analysis. Here are some screenshots:

Vector Illustration Project

For this assignment, we had to find a detailed character and colour him using Adobe Illustrator. It wasn't too hard, except it was very time consuming and at times, very stressful. A common problem was that it wouldn't bring the certain lines in front or behind, and making sure the detail is exact and preceise was a difficult task. Only until this project did I realise how much time and effort must be put in in order to make an illustration look good. After finishing this project, I feel more confident in my Illustrator abilities then ever before.

The Artists name is MatteoScalera from www.Deviantart.com 
Here is the link: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=character+sketch+49#/d1w2h8v


Here are 4 screenshots during the project. 


Tracing the outside was fairly easy, just time consuming. 

 The full tracing, before the colouring.

 The colouring part was fairly difficult. Mostly the difficulty came from trying to get each body part to be in place. The arms gave me some trouble, at different times, the "bring to back" or "bring to front" command would not work.

This is the final tracing. This took a span of three days to complete.

Redone Audi R8 Website Design

I decided to make a completely new design for my Audi R8 website assignment. The only hard part was coming up with a design that was simple and consistent, as I tend to do the complete opposite. On average it took three hours to complete.

Here are my screenshots: 

 

This is the completed version with all the layers shown.

 This it without the grids.