Logo Remake

For my logo, I decided to do the logo for my favorite Portuguese soft drink, Sumol. Sumol is a pretty big company over in Portugal, so I thought it would be fun and unique to do their logo.

Here is the original:

And here is the remake. I tried to make the letters look like they were being pushed away by wind or something.

My Progress on Illustrator

So here is the original portrait that I am doing. I decided to choose the photo of my younger brother because this photo is very focused on one big thing, which is his face.

And here is my progress so far! I wanted to get most of the basic shapes done. So now all I need to worry about are the details.

Musical Drawing- "Frog.....Secret Agent"

My Signature

Now don't forge it for anything!

My Portraits

My senior year photo. Time flies.

Barack Obama. The one and only.

My younger brother Andre in Florence.

Andre again. I actually took this photo with film.

My friend Adriana at Chancellor's Point. Also took this with film.

Artist Post: Pascal Dombis

When reading the article for class, I came across Pascal Dombis's Antisana II and was immediately intrigued. Pascal Dombis is a digital artist from France. He was born in 1965. He studied at Insa University in Lyon, France where he got a degree in engineering. After this, he studied at Tuft's University, where he picked up his computer art skills, using computers and algorithms in his art. Here is some of his artwork:

Antisana II, 2008

Irrational Geometrics, 2008

RightRong, 2008-2010

Eurasia, 2012

I think what I find the most interesting about his work is all of his geometric patterns and use of lines. It's fun and vibrant and original. The twists that he's able to create with lines in Antisana II is honestly very unique and probably really hard to do. He really balances all of the colors well in Antisana II and in Irrational Geometrics. 

I added RightRong and Eurasia in this because they are a little bit different from his works. The similarities between these two is the use of words and lines all together. I think that the layering for each word and each line was very well spread out. He takes drawing straight lines into a whole other level with his works of art. 

Artist Post: Pedro Terrinha

I've been slightly obsessed with this artist for a while, so I thought it would be appropriate to use him for one of my posts. Pedro Terrinha is a photographer from Lisbon, Portugal. You can find some of his photographs here. He describes his photography/ artist style as "colorful, dreamy, and spiritual." The types of cameras that he uses are a Canon 550D, Yashica D, Zenit TTL, and a Pentax Spotmatic SPII. He uses Photoshop CS6, Apophysis, and Fractal Explorer for editing his photographs to make the viewer capture the dreaminess of his photos. Here are just a few of my favorite photos:

A l o n e . i n . b l u e 

W a r m e r . d a y s

S e a. b r e e z e 

I . c a n . s e e . c l e a r l y . n o w

B r i g h t . s t a r

What I like most about Terrinha's photographs is that he takes something real and turns it into something dreamy. He doesn't necessarily make it unreal, but he enhances a lot of things, such as the sparkles in the flower photo above and the vibrant colors in all of his sunset photos. He really takes nature into a whole other perspective when taking and editing these photographs. It makes the viewer feel like they are in real life, but in some sort of fantasy land at the same time as well. The majority of his photos are also based on nature, and I am personally a huge fan of nature photography.

I think this idea behind his work could also be taken negatively. Since it does seem so unrealistic, people can take this as fake photography. Although I don't like editing photos that I take so much, I think it's important that some people are into it. It makes photography a little it more interesting, and I think that this type of editing is what makes Terrinha an original artist.

Here is another website that shows some of his work as well: http://smashingpicture.com/photographer-pedro-terrinha/

Enjoy!