Soy Inks

You wanted to know things about inks made from soy? Here's a poster that explains that. You can click on it to enlarge the image and read it better, if that's your thing.

I'm not sure why I made this.

Lace Chromata

I've done it. I've colored the pattern. And it's pretty spectacular.

To make this image, I used color sequences from Munsell's color space. This system accounts for changes to three main variables: hue (the color), value (the brightness of the color), and saturation (the amount of gray in the color).

I really want you to get the full impact of how beautiful this thing is to me, so let me walk you through the five main components:

This is a circular progression through Munsell color space, beginning at the bottom left and extending up to the top right. Note how all the colors represented are the same value and saturation, but all the hues are changing in the order that they would in a typical color wheel.

This is a diagonal progression through a single hue of Munsell color space, beginning at the top and extending downwards. A diagonal progression keeps the same value and hue throughout, but gradually adds more and more gray to the base hue.

 

These two progressions actually use a horizontal motion, but with different hues in each. A horizontal progression means that the color keeps the same hue and saturation, but gradually changes value. In the top example, the base hue is red on the right. Each step moving to the left is another step down in value. In the bottom example, the base hue is on the left and moving right with subsequent steps up in value.

 

Finally, from top left to bottom right, we have the diagonal cross-section sequence. This one gets a little more complex, because we have two variables shifting: hue and value, with the base hue (orange) moving both across the color space to it's compliment (blue-purple) and down in value. The result is a calming transition that avoids creating any of the chromatic gray shades that usually pop up when going from a hue to its compliment.

So knowing all that, join me once more in gawking at how these simple lines drawn through the visual spectrum can be woven together into a magnificently complex tapestry of color.

Driving the Duotone Diner

Remember that Food Truck Festival poster I made a while back? One of the concepts is back as a sexy two-tone postcard for my Technical Processes class! The entire image is made from nothing more than Pantone Bright Red, Pantone 357 Green, and some various mixes of the two. These colors were picked because they're very common food colors that mix to a nice, healthy brown.

I've always really liked limited palettes, if for no other reason than because there are only so many ways you can solve it. With total creative freedom, there's always the chance that whatever you do, no matter how brilliant, isn't utilizing the full available potential. This is just simpler. And it's lovely.

Hey!

I enjoy doodling. It has a lot of practical applications, from organizing the thought process to developing an early concept to relieving boredom.

Someone - I have no idea who - drew all these lovely little pencil sketches on the table liner at a nearby desk.

So, being a connoisseur of fine doodles and the owner of several pens and markers, I took it upon myself to ink and color one of the more interesting ones.

Again, I didn't draw this, and I have no idea who did, but I certainly enjoyed coloring it in, and I think the finished sketch has a lovely, cartoonish quality to it, and it was fun to translate certain elements into a more color-friendly environment.

Painting Wonder Woman

Color Theory class at this school involves a lot of painting. Subsequently, if I want to demonstrate that I know what primary colors are and pass this class, I have to learn how to paint. It's like the worst sitcom ever.

Here's Wonder Woman.

Here's a chunk of Wonder Woman's face using only blue values.

Here's that same chunk of Wonder Woman's face using a chromatic triad.

Tendrils and Doodles

I doodled some non-euclidean monstrosities! Then I quickly live-traced them into vectors! Yay vectors!

Posts or Lack Thereof

So this is what I've been doing in school lately.

Arranging color wheels.

I haven't been posting much because there's not much to see here.

It's a color wheel.

I arranged it.

Go me.

Level Caps

All 40 color variations on a logo I've been making lately. Hand-lettered, designed from scratch. Learned about dithering as a shading method and ever since I've been much happier.

Also, here's a sprite sheet of my design process.

 

Pixel hats yaaaay.