Digital Portfolio Reflection

I am currently only a week away from being completely finished with working on my BA in Communication and Digital, Art, & Technology at Bellarmine University. I have been in school continuously for 16 years at this point and while I knew this day would eventually come, especially under current circumstances, it feels rather surreal. […]

Typography

The following are a series of typography definitions, like all my other vocabulary posts, none of the definitions are in my own words nor are the photos used my own work. Everything used in this post was found on the internet and the definitions are referenced at the end of each term. Display Font: The […]

The Midnight Gospel

Just two days ago on April 20th, Netflix released an animated adult comedy called, The Midnight Gospel. The series follows spacecaster Clancy through his unreeling adventures interviewing beings from dying worlds. I was immediately captured by the show’s bright colors and psychedelic, vapor wave style. The messages implemented in the interviews Clancy conducts are centered […]

Eat Ugly Work In Progress

Throughout my blog posts I have briefly mentioned my capstone digital art project, I figured I would spend some time today to reflect on my progress so far as things are wrapping up. I’m not going to lie, like most art projects, this one was emotionally draining and my biggest struggles were the least anticipated […]

Composition / Art

The following are composition/art vocabulary definitions. These are not in my own words nor are the reference images mine. All images and definitions are found on the internet and I referenced what I could. 1-Dimenstional: One-dimensional pictures are those containing only one dimension. This is only possible when you’re dealing with a line, as the only dimension you have […]

Skate Decks

I have briefly mentioned my love for skateboarding in other posts, but I have not quite gone into detail of the variety of art implemented in the sport. The physical act of skateboarding, the setup of places and things you skate, the style of your tricks and more all fall into artistic elements of skateboarding, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]