Podcast Cover Art Concept - The Pearl of Great Price

Concept I created for an Audio Podcast for The LDS book of scripture: The Pearl of Great Price.

Before/After Series - Iron Man Argonath

I always thought that the way Iron Man does his "Talk to the hand" stance looked hauntingly familiar 

For your consideration...

Mash-up of the Argonath from Lord of the Rings and Iron Man & War Machine.

Before (2 images)

After

(Its even big enough for wallpaper...You're welcome)

Methods:

Various blending modes

Pattern/texture overlays

Lighting/shadows

Cloning/rebuilding background

"Comic Book" Style Cityscape

I designed this stylized Cityscape for the Birthday invitation for my son.  His party was "Super Hero" themed.
The sky was accomplished used Photoshop's "Halftone" effect.
I think it turned out pretty well!

I'll post the completed invite once it is done.

My take on 'The Dark Knight Rises' movie poster

I gave my Photoshop class an assignment to recreate the Poster for The Dark Knight Rises.

Here is my take on it: 

 

Here is the original:

 

Custom Calendar - Jellyfish

Calendar design I did in a Photoshop class in College

Fantasy Image

While in college I had an assignment to create a fantasy world.  I started out combining elements from other pieces and, and slowly this image evolved:

Some of the part are more subtle than others.

The Avengers Wallpaper

The Avengers comes out out in 2 weeks.  I haven't been this excited for a movie in a really long time.  

And with all the advertising for it comes tons of wallpapers and poster art.  

I've seen several but none have wowed me.  So I took elements from these, and made my own...

For your downloading pleasure, I made 3 sizes:

1024x768

1280x1024

1920x1080

Podcast Cover Art

Cover Art Design I created for a Podcast for Children called, "I Can Play It!" It Featured Simplified version of Church Primary Songs.

Al Gore + Avatar = Alatar (Fake Movie Poster)

Mashup of James Cameron's Avatar and Environmental activist Al Gore.  
I made this one quite a while ago. But, the joke just wasn't quite as clear.  So I made a few revisions and Viola!  I think its much better. 

I came up with the concept because Avatar got so much crap for being "green" and the Inconvenient Truth about Al Gore is he's just annoying.  Maybe he'll have better luck on Pandora.

LOLCAT or POLECAT

Know the difference...

Look Sir, Droids...

Mashup of Droids from Star Wars and Motorola Droid.

I'm actually quite surprised no one has thought of this before.  And if they have I choose to be blissfully ignorant to it.

City Creek Ad (spoof)

Anyone who has been in Downtown SLC in the past month has seen the ridiculous ads everywhere for City Creek.  They feature a model who in no way looks like they would be shopping in a mall in Utah.

Here's one the billboards:

They are so over the top that there has been a hilaroius viral campaign going around spoofing these ads using images from Zoolander, to poke fun that only, "Really, really, ridicously good looking people" can shop there.

Here is one of those: 

(This is not mine, I just find it hilarious...and the Photoshop needs a little work)

 

So with all the hype.  I decided to take it to a whole new level and create my own spoof of City Creek; it features White Goodman from Dodgeball:

The refence is a bit more obscure; but, hey, that's me.  I'm all about the obscure humor.

Mac OS X Liger

Pretty much the best OS ever! Gosh!

Pretty soon, Apple is gonna run out of big cats to name their OS after.
So with the upcoming release of Mountain Lion this summer, My Brother gave me the idea to do a mashup...

The Imfamous Liger from Napoleon Dynomite and Apple OS X Mountain Lion.

Before/After Series - Nemo

Anyone who has an iPhone would recognize this image: 

But when combined with my all-time favorite Disney/Pixar movie...You get this!

Before/After Series - A Single Leaf

I designed the cover of the upcoming novel, A Single Leaf.


               Original Image:                                                                                      Modified Image:

Final Book Cover:

I also helped set up a blog to promote awareness of the book.  You can view it Here.

Editing Elements: 

• Cutting elements out 
• Replacing background
• Color adjustment

Before/After Series - Photo Editing

This is a picture of my wife's grandparent; they are on the ends.  Apparently pictures of the two of them together are fairly hard to come by... So I was tasked with making one...

 

Before

 After

Code Red Roses

My wife is a big fan of getting red roses (what woman isn't?)
She also really likes Mountain Dew Code Red.  So one Mother's Day, I decided to give her the best of both worlds, and give her both a dozen roses, and a 12pk of Code Red.

I then got an idea in my head to combine them...

2012 Hidden Garden Tour Business Card concepts

It's back...with a vengeance! JK.  I have been asked to participate in the Utah Valley Hidden garden tour again this year.  This will likely be the first of many posts showcasing this year's designs.

To see my work from last year, click here.

Patty the Pregzilla!!

This is the product of a comment a good friend of mine said about herself when she was 9 mos. pregnant and wanting that baby out!

She was a really good sport about my transforming her.

2012 Hidden Garden Tour "Save the Date" Card

"Save the Date" card created for the 2012 Hidden Garden Tour.