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Title: Angle and Country
Date: 2016-Feb-09
Medium: Photograph (untouched)
Camera: Motorola Google Nexus 6
Location: PCC Rock Creek Campus (View on Google Maps)
Taken from an upper-floor walkway at Portland Community College's Rock Creek campus, on a particularly clear early-spring afternoon. Most of my photography of scenes tends to be more to celebrate the scenes themselves; I'm not the sort of photographer who spends minutes agonizing over shutter speed and angle. This image is more or less a "point and shoot" photo, with no after-effects applied whatsoever.
Title: Guitar Cat On Stage
Date: 2013-Feb-06
Medium: Digital painting/sketch
Tools used: ArtRage Studio 3, Wacom Bamboo Pen
When I saw someone's photograph of their cat posing with a small toy guitar, I couldn't resist the urge to draw it. While I cannot locate the original photograph anymore (many apologies to the cat's owner), it was used as a reference for the image. Many hours were spent painstakingly sketching in the cat's fur texture with ArtRage's pencil tool, before coloration was added on a separate layer, followed by a simple hand-painted background to complete the piece.
Title: The Way of the Bird-Thing
Date: 2013-Mar-13
Medium: Digital painting
Tools used: ArtRage Studio 3, Wacom Bamboo Pen
Intended more as an exercise in an unusual color palette, the titular "bird-thing" almost didn't get drawn, but I realized that there wasn't a focal point to the piece otherwise. This entire painting was done entirely without references. As with the cat above, much time was spent on the grass and other texturing. A drop-shadow effect was added to the bird-thing using an ArtRage layer effect, to save time doing it by hand. Everything else was done "traditionally" despite being entirely digital.
Title: Cyberpunk Dentistry
Date: 2016-May-07
Medium: Photograph/Photo-manipulation
Tools used: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Camera: Motorola Google Nexus 6
Location: OHSU Collaborative Life Sciences Building (View on Google Maps)
Originally just a photo snapshot I took while riding Portland's MAX Orange Line. This building stood out to me because its architecture resembles that of a mega-corporation from 1980s "cyberpunk" literature, in the tradition of movies like Blade Runner or Johnny Mnemonic. The resulting photo, while illustrative enough, really didn't feel "cyberpunk" enough to me, so I set about to digitally adding a more appropriately menacing sky and adjusting the contrast to suit. The title of the piece came about when I learned that the building was not a corporate headquarters, but a school of dentistry.