Ethan’s portrait
Here’s the portrait that was a commissioned birthday present for my brother’s girlfriend’s brother. His sister wanted an distinguished portrait of him. I thought nothing was more pompus than one of those ruffled collars and a hamlet pose. The original artwork was Frans Hals – Portrait of a Man Holding a Skull.
It was featured on the front page of Reddit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ojmgb/my_sister_decided_that_no_one_should_reach_30/
I used a low res image of the original painting and repainted it in Photoshop with new brushstrokes so that it looked painted again and not pixelated. Ethan’s head was added with the same style brushstrokes as the original. I did all the painting with my Wacom tablet.
Let me know if you’re interested in commissioning me do one of you. Send me a message. It will be fun!
Detail of Ethan’s portrait.
Portrait was printed on canvas at 20×30 inches. Here it is on our mantelpiece before I delivered it to the client.
Gumballs
From the super cool GreyscaleGorilla tutorial How To Model, Texture, and Light A Gumball Machine
Go make one for yourself!
White gumballs are my favorite, well at least for 5 seconds until they lose all their flavor/sugar.
Shrinky Dinks
Here’s my fun project of the week. Shrinky Dinks! I bought a package of assorted Shrinky Dinks plastic and have been making little bones and a caffeine molecule for good measure. The almond colored plastic looks really nice for bones. The shrink to about 30% of the original size. Drawing on the plastic with permanent ink pens results in nice dark and solid lines. Perfect for little pen and ink illustrations. I’m going to have fun with these. I’ll have to think of a real project to use for them. Skull earrings anyone?
Here are the scapulae before they went in the oven.
Shrink action!
All done! Look how tiny they got.
Wedding posters
Here’s our wedding invitations that we had made as postcards. If you didn’t get one, sorry we didn’t order them in time to send out.
Data In Sight SF
I attended a weekend event that was held here in San Francisco this June. It was a data visualization challenge that had attendees form teams and compete to build something visual using data sets. They had great prizes and food.
I attended just to get an idea about what data visualization is about. I joined a team that made a prototype iPhone app for bicycle route planning. We used elevation and map data of SF give a visual representation for biking across the city. The elevation data would be calculated based on the direction of travel, so going uphill was shown in a color but downhill was neutral. The idea was to show multiple routes at the same time. That way you could see the where the hills are and plan to ride up them or around them. My role was “designer” and I created a icon and opening screen for the prototype app. Here’s the page for the project we made
It was fun and I would do something like that again. Some of the winners of the competition did really neat things. Check out this Marvel Universe Social Graph
ePMV workshop example 6
Here are some of my molecular examples from the ePMV workshop given by Graham Johnson, CMI & Fabian de Kok-Mercado, CMI at the 2011 AMI meeting in Baltimore.
ePMV workshop example 3
Here are some of my molecular examples from the ePMV workshop given by Graham Johnson, CMI & Fabian de Kok-Mercado, CMI at the 2011 AMI meeting in Baltimore.
I am a medical illustrator and knitter who lives in California. 