Using Blender

    I recently took up Blender in my leisure time which is a free, open source, 3D rendering software. I tried this sort of software before using 3DS Max but I found it to be very overwhelming and clunky to work with (although I assume the UI is easy to work with once you know what you're doing). Anyways, this was the first render I made through messing around with Blender and working with material and textures. In the future, I hope to add a caustic for the diamond as to make it more "shadow" realistic.

Deadly Cute

    For this project, we were told to make a piece of a cute animal with lethal or scary qualities. For mine, I took a dove and strapped a bomb to its back with an olive branch in its mouth. What I try to convey through this piece is the hypocrisy and two-faced nature of our current government. We continue to wage a fruitless war which in turn, drains our resources, raises our taxes, and ends the lives of good American soldiers. Yet, we continue to proclaim how peaceful we are. In our current state, perhaps only war can bring peace, but I stand in opposition to that.   

Tides Button

Tides.shorecrest.org Button (Image coming soon)

So far this week, I've been working on a button for the Shorecrest for Tides. Mr. Seymour recruited me to work on it and after carefully  viewing and observing the Tides website, I came up with a color scheme, a rather stark one at that. The wave came from a suggestion of Mr. Runge's with turned out very well. I hope Mr. Seymour likes my work and I'm excited to see my work on the front page of shorecrest.org.
Thanks again Mr. Seymour!

Starting with HTML and CSS

 This year, I'll be focusing a lot on HTML and CSS in order to learn the basics of website construction and engineering. Luckily, CSS, in my opinion, is loosely based on C so the learning curve isn't too bad. HTML, on the other hand, seems to be its own markup language but rather easy to learn and much more intuitive than some other languages I know. Anyways, this is a screen shot of the website I've made so far using a tutorial. I'll link the tutorial below since it's very well put together and easy to follow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3KESBQTD8k

Radial Blur

I've recently been messing around with the Radial Blur filter and have come up with some interesting results. By placing lines along an X and Y axis set up (perpendicular to the axes) and then using a radial blur filter, I came to this result. Lastly, I duplicated the layer and added a motion blur to give the subtle diagonal lines drawing from the upper left, to the lower right. No outside images were used in the making. Image is 1600x900 at 300ppi.

Surrealism: Devil to Pay

   This past week, the project to make was on Surrealism. Upon going over idea after idea in my mind, finding something, starting it, then scratching it a few days later, I conjured this idea. To many, this piece would appear excessively sanguinary although I find all the gore to be necessary for the meaning it holds. The focus of this image, a serpent erupting from someone's arm symbolizes how, inside us all, holds a small amount of evil. The serpent representing Satan, hence the title, Devil to Pay. Furthermore, the size of the snake holds a deal of importance in how it tears a large, painful lesion. Sometimes we must expel evil and terror invasively, which, through this piece, I try to convey holds to be extremely painful and scarring; and yet,  the pain would be just as equal to withhold such hatred inside.