Portfolio

Graphic Design Work

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Business card logo I created for myself and my graphic design freelance company.

T-shirt design I created to be sold as part of an effort to raise money for the families of the victims of Juarez. The T-shirts were auctioned off at an art exhibit that was in connection with the Mexican indigenous holiday, Dia De Los Muertos. Each of the artists who created a T-shirt also had a piece of fine art on display in the gallery exhibit as well.

Flyer design I made in Adobe Illustrator on freelance assignment for a local gym.

Flyer I created shaping vectors to create original skater boy character design in my position as Graphic Designer for the City of Cerritos RecreationServices Division.

Flyer I designed in Illustrator while working as Graphic Designer for the City of Cerritos. Original drawings of aliens on video game screen created in Photoshop. Layout and typographic arrangement created in Illustrator. Original logo design in bottom left corner.

Poster I designed in Illustrator while working as Graphic Designer for the City of Cerritos. Original vector illustrations of sleep over scene.

Brochure cover with original vector based drawings of family and elements of music, science and magic I created in Illustrator as Graphic Designer for the City of Cerritos - Recreation Services Division.

Inside view of brochure with originally createdtexural background in Photoshop and vector based drawings in Illustrator.

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Digital Art

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Abstract landscape I created with the liquify tool on what used to be a calendar photo of a beach in Hawaii.

Poster Design I made using Adobe Photoshop and Illustratorwhich was chosen among submissionsto publicize art exhibition at UCI in which the gallery walls and art were installed so that viewers would feel that they were enterning into a giant Pac Man Arcade Game.

Package Design I created using vector graphic illustration in Adobe Illustrator.

Pattern made from a one inch by one inch design that repeats and varies to make a different overall design.

Detail of the pattern.

Album cover design I made for my musician friend's solo album entitled C Bass.

A friend I drew using paint tools in Photoshop and created typography arrangement in Illustrator that pokes fun at him for his excessively strict work out routines, chocolate protein shake diet and worship of super heroes. I printed this and the Popeye design on cloth that I made into covers for containers of brownies that I sent to him.

Traditional Paintings and Drawings

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United in the Eyes of God. January 2002. 3’x 2’. Oil on Canvas. Portrait of my Christian mother and Muslim father on their wedding day. Painted to commemorate the harmony of their marriage countering the view set by news media, which implies the two cultures clash and are unable to mix. Use of orange and blue is to represent the backgrounds that complement each other and create some of the most beautiful and natural hues.

Inner Ecstasy Awakening. December 1998. 30” x 22.” Charcoal, pastel, and gesso on paper. A depiction of infatuation for a personality through media. True love of images or parts of the whole.

Look Series. February 2001. 4’x 5.’ Pastels on paper mounted to foam core. Installation. Edges on foam core are painted with oil paint and gloss medium so that the parts have a look of pieces of a broken mirror. Intended to reflect both the partial selves of an individual person as well as the experience of schizophrenia in which an individual is confronted by the stares of strangers in all directions.

Detail of the Look Series 6” x 10”

Alex. December 1998. 38” x 25.” Charcoal, pastel, and gesso on paper.

Induction into Heaven Reality. March 2001. 38” x 50.” Pastel on paper. Simulation of a false sense of Heaven—one in which the media is god. Comment on the glamorization of celebrities. From the perspective of a mental patient as if paralleling schizophrenic delusions with the Westernized hype of pop culture.

Fitting Music. November 1998. 30” x 12.” Charcoal and pastel on denim. About the aspects of life that people attach to their souls more easily than others.

Girl Holding a Puppy. Acrylic on Canvas. 16 in x 20 in.

Chipmunk. Oil Pastel on Paper. 12 in x 17.5 in.

Kittens Among the Flowers. Pastel on Paper. 16.5 in x 19 in.

Horses in Meadow. Watercolor on Paper. 12 in x 17.5 in.

Cabage Patch Dolls. Acrylic on Canvas. 12 in x 16 in.

Self Portrait. Oil on Canvas. 12 in x 16 in.

Tropical Landscape. Oil on Canvas. 16 in x 20 in. Oct 1996.

Kitty Under the Table. Pen and Ink on Paper. 6 in x 9 in.

Kittens in a Basket. Oil Pastel on Paper. 12 in x 17.5 in.

"If You Glorify the Past the Future Dries Up". Oil on Canvas. 39 in x 30 in.. August 1997.

Breathing Underwater. Oil on Bristol Board. 17 in x 22 in. February 2001.

Little Girl with Hamster. Oil Pastel on Masonite Board. 16 in x 20 in.

Robert. Pencil on Paper. 9 in x 12 in.