Visual Design Projects

Photo Retouching
Year: 2016
This project entailed the restoration of the above-shown picture. I had to use Adobe Photoshop to recreate an undamaged version using the spot healing brush, healing brush, paintbrush, and other tools provided by Adobe Photoshop. The project was a challenge at the time since I had only done small retouches to photos up to that point. However, it was a great learning experience as it gave me a greater understanding of how to fix/retouch old photos or other images that I may need in the future.

Identity Project
Year: 2017
This is an illustration made for my Visual Design class. The theme of the project was Identity. So I chose to draw a faceless human walking in an endless void of white and black. The person is wondering who he is. I feel like it makes sense for the theme of identity since, when not knowing who you are as a person does feel isolating from the others around you. In this project I used Adobe Photoshop for everything from making the human to the sign and backdrop, using basic brushes and gradients.

Yearbook Project
Year: 2017
This project had my class go into groups of 4 and create a yearbook that had all the members of the class in it. We had to create the assets ourselves. In this project, I was the lead designer as well as the director. It was my job to create the backgrounds and other assets for the book. The theme we chose was space so to match with that theme I painted all the students over to have a NASA-like uniform. I mainly spent my time in Adobe Photoshop making the planets, asteroids, and the space shuttle keeping a consistent theme throughout the entire book. I did this using the lasso tool and brush tool in Photoshop.

Brochure
Year: 2017
For this project, we were supposed to come up with an informational brochure. I decided to make a brochure about education in the world. I had to research different conditions and other educational institutions from other countries to understand the information and relay the information to the reader. There are images of school children from other countries to help show the kinds of people there are in the world and make it more relatable than just numbers.

Graphic Media Arts Competition 2017 Submission
Year: 2017
This illustration was made as a submission to the Graphic Media Arts Competition in 2017. The illustration was sketched on paper first and then completed on Adobe Illustrator. I heavily relied on the pen tool for creating the lines and shapes seen in the illustration. There was use of gradients for the moon as well. The stars were created by making a small circle into a symbol and spraying the background with the Symbol Sprayer Tool. I was inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas movie by Tim Burton. I wanted to incorporate a very over accentuated feature within the illustration so I went with a mountain that curves inward at the peak.