Blindly Touring

These are blind contours. They're self portraits I drew whilst blind without lifting my pen. I waited until the end of the set to explain this because they're wonderfully devoid of any reasonable context.

Zoom in! Behance!

I've gone and set me up a Behance profile!

Basically I was looking for a fast and cheap way to put together a portfolio in a way that could be easily shared and I had heard some of my classmates and teachers recommend Behance. After I spent an hour setting up my profile and projects and several hours browsing the crazy selection of amazing design. It's pretty incredible. It's sort of like a Linkedin for artistic inspiration and a Pinterest for professionals.

There's going to be a lot of overlap between the content of Pixeldin and the content of my Behance account because both focus on my attempts at design. The main difference between the two is where I'll be using Pixeldin as sort of a clutter drawer for works in progress, school assignments, and news updates. I'm going to try and keep Behance looking more like a portfolio of selected works, so odds are if you're seeing it on my Behance, I've already uploaded six sketches of it to Pixeldin.

I typed out all this additional information just so I could get the text to wrap nicely around that big ol' linehead icon up there. And I added this final paragraph to balance things out a little bit. And then I broke the fourth wall to talk about text shapes. Just nine more words should finish things off nicely.

JA-Y

Woo! First assignment!

This is what a getting-to-know-you project looks for a graphic design class. We were instructed to do a self-portrait that relayed our name visually without spelling it out directly.

So this is the JA portrait, Yellow version.

JA-Y

This project was not meant for short names.

No I will not draw myself as a bird.

Starting Point Portraits

Let's get some content in here!

Back when I started using Facebook, I didn't want to put my face on the account. So I've got a bunch of profile pictures that I drew for Facebook. Lots of them are really old, and I'm not proud of how lazy some of them are. But yeah, here's that:

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Concept established: Gray background, orange bubbles, red jacket, black shirt. The lack of nose is due to my inability at the time to draw a nose.

Joined Minecraft, made a skin. And technically, still no nose.

 

Halloween time! Posting these, I'm realizing that the lack-of-nose thing went on for way longer than I remembered.

 

Took a trip to New York on a college visit. And hey, is that a nose I spy under the lack of eyes? 

 

Random art assets! These are from a mural I designed for high school. I'm still not sure why they let me paint it.

Got an internship at Disney, so I modeled this one after the style (and nose) of Aladdin.

Stylization time! This near illegible comic book print commemorates the time I received a pair of mail-order red/blue 3D glasses after a good two months of shipping delay. The excitement was overwhelming.

Got on a bit of a pixel kick. It's a pretty big departure from style, but the facial hair demanded proper representation.

And here we have the dawn of the cover picture. This was my first attempt at getting a profile picture to match up with the cover picture behind it. It was basically just a mess of wireframe heads.

 

At the time of writing, this is my profile picture. It's the only one based on an actual photograph, and was sort of an in-progress asset for a Halloween poster I put together. But that's another post entirely.