Struan Shields

For an IB Art assignment, we had to do a piece in the style of another artist. I choose the famous American quasi-pop artist Alex Katz. While Katz is a painter his simple style is pretty similar to my vector style so it was a natural choice. For the portrait I took at snapshot of a friend and then worked on it in Adobe Illustrator CS3 for a couple hours. I kept it pretty simple because I have to do three more people for the assignment. You can expect those soon.

Nicholson Two Lower Football Club

This is a design concept for the crest of my brother's college intramural soccer team. This design is based mostly off of the crests of English soccer clubs. This took me like two seconds in Inkscape.

When Boarding, Please Move to the Center of the Car

This is the latest idea I've had for the t-shirts i'm thinking about selling, although this would be a pretty complex silk screen job... It's the DC Metro subway system map without all of the stop labeled and everything. I really like the concept of the shirt and hopefully someday it will find its way onto something. It was done in about two hours in Inkscape.

Gem Practice

I drew this gem/ jewel icon for practice for doing reflective surfaces as well as for having it for my huge upcoming project that I can't talk about until May or so :). Anyway, I found a great online tutorial, available at the DesignCast Blog. It walks you through the process in about half an hour. Overall I'm pretty pleased with the way it came out.

Warning, Emotional Children Near

I got the idea to do a comical warning after browsing through deviantART one day. My inspiration comes from =SRotherham's piece, Ennui. It was just a fun little doodle that only took me about half an hour.

New Sig

After drawing this in my school notebooks for months, I finally decided to turn this design into a vector. It's actually if you look closely my name, let's see if you can figure it out.

Lauren

This is a simple vector "cut out" of a friend. It doesn't have as much detail as the other ones but i still like the way it came out. It took about two hours working on and off in Inkscape. It was challenging though because the source image was not that large to begin with so that made the hair especially difficult so I cut down on details there.

Wage Peace

This piece was done on the same wave of thinking as the last post, protests and all that. I imagined this being worn on shirts and buttons at anti-war rallies and the like. It took me about an hour and a half in Inkscape. I'll add the link to the deviantART deviant when i get the chance. Comments are appreciated.

Clone Trooper Doodle: If George Lucas was into weebles...

Soon after completing my previous vector I wanted to do almost a caricature of a Clone Trooper. After a quick sketch, scan, and inking in Inkscape, this is what I had. A cutesy little trooper on the outskirts of a plain and simple Geonosis. Hit up the link for the deviant and comments with thoughts.

Link to deviantART