I’m kind of obsessed w/ YouTube.

Even though I have recently been focusing on digital illustration I love a variety of media, including videography. I have been an avid social media user since I was 12 years old beginning with Myspace and Youtube. My YouTube addiction was not severe until my sophomore year of high school when I would watch makeup […]

Logotypes

The following are a series of logotype definitions, none of these are in my own words nor are the images used mine. Everything provided in this post was retrieved from the internet and all definitions are referenced at the end of each term. Abstract Mark: a specific type of pictorial logo. Instead of being a […]

Mark Gonzales

Mark Gonzales, otherwise known as the Gonz, is an American professional skateboarding and art legend. Skateboarding and contemporary art go hand in hand, from skate style, deck art, film, and more the entire skate community is enveloped in artistic expression. Gonz is known in the skateboarding world for being a pioneer in street skating, he […]

Parts of Type Vocabulary

Apex: The point at the top of a character such as the uppercase A where the left and right strokes meet is the apex. The apex may be a sharp point, blunt, or rounded and is an identifying feature for some typefaces. Arm: The arm of a letter is the horizontal stroke on some characters […]

Bjenny Montero

Ben Montero makes wholesome, melancholic, often colorful, comic strip style art. The Melbourne artist has 170K followers on Instagram and 41K on Twitter. Montero’s art style mixed with mental health themes reminds me of Paramore’s After Laughter album which Hayley Williams describes as sad songs that sound happy. I have been aware of Bjenny for […]

Digital Images Vocab

DPI: Stands for “Dots Per Inch.” DPI is used to measure the resolution of an image both on screen and in print. As the name suggests, the DPI measures how many dots fit into a linear inch. Therefore, the higher the DPI, the more detail can be shown in an image. Pixel: The term “pixel” is actually […]

Gerard Way

Gerard Arthur Way is an American singer, songwriter, artist, comic book writer, musician and more. He is most well known as being lead vocalist and co-founder of rock band My Chemical Romance. Gerard co-founded DC Comics Young Animal Imprint, wrote the comic mini-series The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, and he wrote the Eisner […]