The following is a testament of

the art I have made while in

college. I would like to thank
the professors who have pushed
me into becoming better at art,
and at the same time better at
life.

Table Of Contents
and Professors

Visual Communication
P. 2-7
Nathan Peck

Digital Imagery
P. 8-11
Nathan Peck

Drawing 1
P. 12-15
Dan Falco

Drawing II
P. 16-23
Brent Wall

3D Design
P. 24-25
Jayne Hileman

Computer Graphics
p. 26-35
Nathan Peck


Visual Communications Visual Communications

Tree of Life

standing on a
rock

One of the last projects we did in

this class was an alternate reality
image. I had made a tree with legs
and peace signs growing on it to
show that human and nature could
function together peacefully. This
was my final edition of the alternate
reality assignment. I decided to keep
the sun's reflection on the water on
the one, while adding a filter that still
let it shine through on the other. I
also decided that rather than have the
tree person standing on the leaf that I
would make it look like it was either
standing on a rock.


Visual Communications Visual Communications

What To Do?

add some light to

the background

These are the second versions of

the posters that I made. I decided to
add some light to the background
to make everything else stand out
a little bit more. I also added some
filters to the images in the middle
and to the shoes to make them stand
out more and make them look more
real. I also changed the shadow and
colors of the font to make them more
readable, but I still need to fix them
more. I kept the same basic varia-
tions and consistencies in each of the
posters.


Visual Communications Visual Communications

The Stool and The

Key
Drawn To The Keys

Craft: In order to make images, I

first made brushes to put into Photo-
shop. Then I selected an image and
created the background first. I only
used the brushes that I had uploaded,
which made it slightly more difficult
because none of them had smooth
edges. I then worked my way up
through the layers until I had most of
the details covered.

Concept: The basic concept of the

last image is to show a recreation
of the original image made entirely
from Photoshop brushes that I had
created.

Composition: The composition of

this images is basically the same as
the original image. The viewers eyes
are drawn to the keys because they
are in almost the exact middle, and
they are also inside the circle created
by the stool.
Digital Imagery Digital Imagery
Craft: To make this image, I
simply moved each of the indi-
vidual layers in the box to the
lower corner. Then I added a
new layer for the type. I added
the tag line first in a different
font. I turned it into the same
font that was on the box and
then made it into a color that
Concept: The concept of this
image is to attempt to sell
the product. I used the box
that I had created for the last
image and made it look more
realistic or advertising sake. I
put the box in the lower right
hand corner so I could put the
tag line in and persuade the

My First Arson Kit fit with the colors in the box.
Then I added a new type layer
for the price. I also made this
the same font is on the box,
and made it a lighter color than
the tag line. Finally, I added
another type layer for the type
in the lower left corner. I made
this type a lot smaller than the
others because it is the least
important information on the
box.
customers to buy my product.
Composition: The composi-
tion of this advertisement is
made to attract the viewers
attention to everything. I put
the box in the corner along
with the included products.
The wording is in the top and
the right because that's the
way people read. This will
make it easier for the cus-
tomers to find out what the
product is trying to do. I also
made the words circling the
box to make it seem like it
was more playful and suitable
for children.

Craft: This particular image

had many different steps in
Concept: This photo is trying

Bed Makers
stand out from the background
order to make it. First I resized
all of the pictures so they
were about the same. Then, I
desaturated all of the images
except for the one to make it
stand out. Then I made a group
to put all of those pictures in
and I hid the group. After that
made a new layer and filled
it in with color. I then made an-
other new layer and made the
black strip at the bottom. Then
another new layer containing
the type. Then I made the pic-
tures reappear so I could adjust
the color of the background to
make them stand out.
to show someone the tens
steps to making a bed.
Composition: I decided to use
the image with color because
I felt that it was the most ap-
pealing one to look at. I chose
the color in the background
by first picking a random
color, which happened to
be red. I then played around
with the hue and saturation
to make all of the images in
front of it stand out from the
background.

Digital Imagery Digital Imagery

What The
Morning Will
Bring

Craft: These photos were made in basically

the same way as the previous versions, but
with a few differences. Instead of using
filters to change the appearance, I went into
the image file and used hue/saturation and
value. The first picture plays with value to
make the butterflies seem brighter than the
previous images. The second image uses
saturation to manipulate the image. The
saturation of the sink is pushed back, while
the butterflies and the child were intensified.
In the last image, hue was used. The back-
ground was turned a blueish-purple color.
The same effect was added to the child, but
not as much. I also added an orange tint to
the butterflies and amped it up to a brighter
value.

Concept: The concept for these images has

not changed at all. It is still meant to sym-
bolize the wonder of what the day ahead
can bring.

Composition: I changed the concept

slightly to see if the same effect was still
had. I moved the girl into the corner so she
would not be one of the first things seen.
the butterflies and
I also deleted one of the butterflies so the
background was more apparent. I think the the child were
image with the slightly desaturated back-
ground is the most effective at making the
butterflies stick out.
intensified

Drawing I Drawing I

Welcome To
The Future

It’s A Brave New

World

This drawing was one of

the last drawings complet-
ed in this class. Our objec-
tive was to take Vincent
Van Gogh’s Man Reading
The Bible and place him in
a different setting. I decid-
ed to have him sitting on
a stool in his house trying
to figure out how to work
an iPod.

Drawing I Drawing I

Children In
Spring

Pint
Sized
Wonderland

This project was our final in

this class. The only guidelines
we had was that it had to be
a collage. I wanted to make it
seem childlike, because I was
making it for my niece. I used
colored pencils to draw the
animals and color in her eyes.
I used drawing pencil to draw
her out. The last things I added
were the flower cutouts from
the magazine I found and the
potpourri.

Drawing II Drawing II

You Have
My Attention

Blank Stare

This project is our metamorphic

drawing. The drawing itself is
simply charcoal on paper. The
focus of it was that it had to be of
two objects that were not some-
thing that immediately came to
mind when thinking of metamor-
phosis. I decided to take the idea
of the pupil of an eye becoming a
developing fetus. When creating
it, I decided I wanted theme to be
that once a woman becomes preg-
nant, all she can focus on is her
child. I entitled it Blank Stare.

Drawing II Drawing II

Love Takes
Flight

Birds of a

Feather

This drawing was meant to be a

drawing inspired by what I consid-
ered a significant piece of paper.
I have a habit of collecting movie
stubs and other tickets. The ticket I
chose for this project was the movie
stub from Black Swan when I went to
go see it with my current boyfriend;
it was our first actual date. I used oil
pastels on scrapbook paper that I had
bought a while back. I used this pa-
per because I thought the images on
it helped to more emphasize my idea.

Drawing II Drawing II

Through The Looking Glass

Break The Paper Into Pieces

For this project, we were asked to draw a

psychological self portrait using at least
one element of color. I first thought about
making a drawing that was made of a bunch
of puzzle pieces, but then decided that idea
was too cliche. Instead, I divided the paper
up into even sections and drew in random
parts of my face and hands and feet. The
only color I used was on the lips, eyes, and
behind the ears because lips are generally a
colorful part of the face and I have tattoos
behind each of my ears. When I decided to
break the paper into pieces, I was think-
ing something along the lines of not being
completely together all the time, although it
may appear that I am. I also wanted it to be
apparent that there were only a few differ-
ent parts of the body showing to symbolize
only showing part of myself to others at any
given time.

Drawing II Drawing II

What’s That
You Say?

...an old rag I

found on the floor

This was probably one of the most inter-

esting drawings I’ve done so far. For this
assignment, we were instructed to create a
drawing using non-art materials and meth-
ods. Instead of using a piece of paper,
pencil, and my hands, I used an old rag I
found on the floor, flower petals, rock salt,
tea leaves, pepto bismal, hydrogen per-
oxide, and a wooden spoon I controlled
using my mouth. After I had sprinkled ev-
erything on the rag, I crumbled it up and
put random items on it to weigh it down.
After it had dried some, I opened it up and
this is what it looked like. I didn’t move it
all night so that it could dry. When I lifted
it, almost all the petals and leaves stayed
attached to it. I also noticed the color
from the flower petals and tea leaves had
bled all over the fabric. I thought those
were pretty interesting because I didn’t
really know what to expect when I started
this project.

3D Design 3D Design

The
Jabberwock

The jaws that bite,

the claws that catch.

The theater design project was the

most intensive project of this class.
Total, I spent about 33 hours deciding,
drawing, and putting this set together.
I instantly knew when the project was
introduced that I wanted to do a Lewis
Carroll poem, and ultimatley decided
on The Jabberwock. I chose Lewis
Carroll because I knew that not many
people would chose something like him
to work with. This set it made mostly
out of foam board colored with mark-
ers. The trees against the backdrop are
made of plaster wrap and fabric. The
backdrop is also made out of fabric
that I hand dyed with the entire poem
written out. The substance on the floor
of the set is made of ground up floral
foam.


Computer
Computer Graphics
Graphics Computer
Computer Graphics
Graphics

Radios
of ...make it as big as
The Craft: All of these radios were made in Illustrator. For some
possible.
Concept: This project was practice for drawing the radios for the Composition: Since there is only one item in all of these im-
Random of them, simply the pen tool was used. For others, it was only
the shape tool. And for the others, it was the paint brush tool
next project that we had done, which relied heavily on radios. The
objective was to make as many different kinds of radios as possible
ages, it is in the middle of the page to make it as big as possi-
ble. Also, since this was just practice, there was no real reason

Sort only. There were also a few that were a combination of the
tools listed before.
using as many different techniques as possible. Overall, I did about
eighteen radios all using a different technique.
to put them in any other position.

Computer Graphics Computer Graphics

...radios in a THE ESCAPE FROM

cage...
ORDINARY
RADIO
Craft: For this image, I simply worked from the
first draft that I has completed. I used mostly the
pen tool and the paint brush tool to make the new
objects and revise the original images. The only
other tool I used was the pencil tool for the hill the
cage is on. The cage itself was made using the pen
tool. I also made the superman figure smaller and
added the rest of his body. I used to paint brush tool
to fix the lines in the shirt and arms.

Concept: The concept of this image is still to say

“the escape from ordinary radio.” The radios in the
cage that are all the same are supposed to symbolize
the ordinary radios that need to escape. The super-
man carrying the one radio to safety is meant to
symbolize escaping from the cage because it is the
same radio as those in the cage.

Composition: I put the radios in a cage so that

it would make more sense and not seem that they
were just floating in the air. I also made the back-
ground look like an actual sunset instead of just
random colors. I made the superman smaller so that
the viewer could see all of him and it would look
more like he was flying. I put the superman on the
left and the radios on the right because that is the
way people read. Superman is the first part of the
sentence and the ordinary radios are the second
part.

Computer Graphics Computer Graphics

Opening a Whole New

Can of Eyes
they have
sharp
blades

Craft: In order to take these photos, I picked

out a bunch of different kitchen utensils and
placed them by my eyes. All of the photos
were taken using a digital camera.

Concept: The concept I had in mind for

these photos was to simply combine kitchen
objects and eyes, because they don't seem
like they could go together. I also thought
for the larger photo that it would be kind of
intimidating to have a manual can opener
by the eye, because they have sharp blades
on them and it wouldn't be very much fun to
have your eye attacked by one.

Composition: I chose this composition

because it draws attention to a few differ-
ent things at once. The viewer's eyes will
be fighting to be looking at the eyeball and
the can opener, because they have similar
shapes in them. The viewer also has to look
through the can opener to get to the eyes,
with sort of makes the frame within a frame
concept.

Computer Graphics Computer Graphics

A Work In Progress
There are a few different things
that go along with the craft.
Because I hadn't been working
on it for very long, I only have
about half of the photo covered
with the illustration. In order
to do what I have, I the shaped
around the item I was coloring Almost
There
using the pen tool. Then I used
the color dropper tool to select
the color of the part I was mak-
ing at that time. I also made
sure to put them in the right
order using the layers window
to that everything could be
seen as it's supposed to. For
example, the eye has to be on
top of the face, or it wouldn't
be seen.

I had added more detail to the

illustration. After I finished
the can opener, I started work-
ing on the face again to make
it seem more realistic with
the different skin tones and
shadows. I added a gradient to
Detail the nose to make it look more
real. I also used the brush tool
to redo the hair, eyebrows,
and eyelashes. I also added
more color to the eyes and the
hair because of the shadows
and undertones.

Computer Graphics Computer Graphics

The Final
Product
shapes to
represent
the
colors

Craft: I changed a lot of things from the previous

version of this photo. Instead of using the pen tool
to make different shapes to represent the colors, I
used the gradient tool. I felt that this would help
make the illustration look more clean and realistic. I
also worked more with the paint brush tool to make
the hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes seem more real as
well.

Concept: The concept of this image is still the same

as the previous ones. It is simply to make the viewer
think about what it would be like for them to get
their eye caught in a can opener.

Composition: The composition of this piece was

thought out prior to the original picture having
been taken. I wanted to place the wedge of the can
opener directly in front of the eye so that the viewer
would be forced to look through it to see the eye.
I also made it close up so that it would seem more
intimate and intimidating.