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Boy with beached dolphin

20070906 in Illustration | No comments

I used to work at Puerto Rico Sea Grant as a web and graphic designer and I really enjoyed what I was doing there. My job offered me an opportunity to illustrate stories about nature and science while trying to make those stories appealing to a wider audience. This illustration was going to be used for a poster announcing a conference about endangered whales, dolphins, and porpoises and what people could do to protect them. In the end, the illustration was never used in the poster because the conference organizers wanted to pack so much information into the publication that I could barely fit any images.

The entire image was drawn and painted in Photoshop. I started with drawing the general shapes of the figures and then added the speckled background to use as a base for the painting. Then I went on to paint in the figures using transparent washes so that the background would show through and affect the colors of the final image.

Lion fish

20070827 in Artwork | No comments

This image of a lion fish was created about a year and a half ago as a tryout for a graphic design position. I was trying to prove my artistic skills be completing a digital painting using only Photoshop and a Wacom tablet. I liked the result very much, so I’m including it here as my first art post.

I like lion fish because they are extravagant and beautiful and scary at the same time. I wanted to reflect that in the painting. Also, I tweaked the colors of the fish to be a bit more orange so that it would clash with the blue background. The shock of complementary colors makes the image pop.

The white lines were added as a unique touch to show that I wasn’t simply copying an image of a lion fish. I think the lines also help denote the features of the fish, which would be lost in the sea of camouflage markings that cover it.