Halloween Pumpkin Kit

I did this project at work 2 months ago for a Pumpkin Decorating Kit. In this post, I'll show you the steps I took to create it!

Safari Adventure Kids Dishware

This project took me a while to do since I drew the animals realistically in Illustrator. It wasn't too difficult tho cuz I pretty much traced over photos of real animals. But for the Giraffe I used 2 or 3 different photos I traced and put together to get the pose of the Giraffe I wanted...same thing with the monkeys and lion. Then I placed them in a safari desert scene and put those on templates of kids plates, bowls and spoons and forks and other stuff. Phew! thats a lot of work! lol

Eco-Friendly Baby Toys

Designs I made for baby toys made out of wood. Different textures and sounds are supposed to inspire the baby to learn sounds and touch. The factory produced really cheap ugly samples of what I drew out here.. I never knew if they proceeded with selling them since they came out crappy.. Oh well! At least they look nice on paper!

Tea Boxes.. A Long Time Ago

This was some tea box artwork I did a veeery very long time ago..like years back. I uploaded it to the blog because it's still one of my favorite pieces I did. The concept here was, to sell a "Tea Set" of 6 boxes that had painted artwork on each box, but create a larger painting when all 6 were put together. I didn't actually paint those paintings(i wish)..they're just linked images we had on our server. You can see how the 6 boxes create the large one. The logo was created by a coworker.

Disney Spinner Chimes

I did these chimes last week. They're like wind chimes, except they don't chime..they just spin. Anyway, they're just a visual to try to entice the buyer into liking the idea so that they make an order for it. It's all Disney licensed artwork again, done in Illustrator with 3D effects to make some of the little hanging things look like they are.. hanging duh.

Tuscany Hills Painting/Packaging

I created this 6 years ago. Its one of the very few paintings I've done at work on Photoshop (Photoshop 6 I think! lol!) I then applied it to box packaging for the product, and I made a 3D view of it so you can see what the box is like.

Computer Packaging

I did these 4 options for a mini Laptop my job was trying to sell. The design was meant to be innovative and eye-catching, which I think I managed to do, what do you think? (the black design with the bright circles was not my idea entirely, I didn't create the circle pattern).

Brag Book Covers revised

So here are the same brag books from before but have been revised because the stupid buyer didn't like the first round. He didn't like the flower designs, which I thought were awesome, and he didn't like the colors on the stripes, which I don't care. Oh! and this was stupid, he said that the dots were too straight before... so I scattered them. And he wanted to see an extra option with green and white dots. Can we say OY VEI!

Brag Book Cover options

Brag books are basically small photo albums. Here I designed 4 options based on references that looked... pretty much similar. I like the colors. It has good color symphony lol.

Mickey Brag Book Covers

Brag books are like small travel size photo albums that you keep in your bag instead of having big photo albums. So here I used Disney licensed artwork to create 2 options of Mickey & Minnie, and 2 options of the Disney Princesses. The artwork was sent to Asia where they produced samples of the actual thing.

Bike Accessory templates

I previously posted options I made for bike accessories artwork. Since one option was chosen, I applied it to several templates that may be needed when products are bought.

mp3 Designs

I did these designs a while back already. Basically, my job wanted to create mp3 players that have no memory installed in it. It would be up to the consumer to provide his/her own USB stick with music in it, so that they can stick it in the player and thus completing the entire mp3 player. Wonderful isn't it! ...yeah I know, crap. Maybe that's why it was never picked up and failed to make an impression for a potential buyer. Either way, I made the designs and yeah... here they are.

Disney Pool Designs

I designed these pools using Disney licensed artwork. Let me tell you, working with Disney files sucks because it slows down the computer so much! Anyways, these were sold to Walgreens. Let me know if you ever see them in the store!

Halloween Sticker Designs

These were some Halloween wall/window stickers I made earlier this year. I can't wait to see them in stores (Walgreens) cuz I like them!

Ed Hardy Designs

These were some Ed Hardy-like designs I made for a chocolate box not too long ago. The box is supposed to look like it has a shirt wrapped around the cover of it. The final product might actually be printed on fabric, but it all depends on printing costs. All 3 designs were miraculously accepted as they were and sent for production. I took a picture of samples that were already made in China and sent over to a showroom at my job. Sorry the picture kinda sucks, but the designs are nice right?! =D

Disney dive sticks designs

I made these designs for kids dive sticks to play in the pool. It was all using Disney licensed artwork, but I had to really think about how to maintain the stick shape while still using the characters. It came out nice I think, and I don't even know if they were mass produced yet, or which ones Walgreens picked, or when they would sell. But if you see them in stores, let me know!

Pen Barrel Artwork

These are some options I did for the artwork that goes on the barrel of a pen. Only options A and B were chosen.

Bike Accessory options

Here is a perfect example of my work process. I was told to do some options for bike accessory packaging starting with what we call a blister card. I was given some photo options downloaded from photos.com and I chose which ones I thought would work best. So here, I created 6 options, one with an overall photo background and some with only graphics and the rest with a combination of both. I made sure to use sporty colors and also gave options that are crazy and not so crazy. After I submitted the options, they came back and told me they liked option 6 and to do another option in the same style but with a different picture and different colors. At this point, they are moving forward with the look of Option 6 and I have to apply the art on other packaging templates to show how everything will look together. I'll post those later.

WB flip flops

These are some flip flops i designed at work using WB licensed artwork. They call them Zories (apparently they have an actual name, i know). They are all potential options the buyer (Walgreens) may choose only some or all of them.

3D apple

Yesterday I found this 3D rendering of an apple I did while at was in college. I made it in 3dmax and I used it for my print portfolio for graduation. Hopefully soon i'll post all my other print portfolio stuff I made.

Self Portrait

As my first post on this fancy shmancy art blog I have created, I will show you my self portrait. Come back soon as I will post all of my artwork, as its been created and as it is being created.