This project was done completely in Photoshop and was brought on by my urge for painting. I used to be a semi-talented painter when I was an early teen, then proceeded to drop it for more important things like High School, sports, and chasing girls.

Now the urge to paint again has bubbled to the surface, but I do not yet have paints, so I settled for the next best thing…Photoshop. I started with a pretty cool stock image of 2 mannequins and a very shallow depth of field. I started by using the art history brush to paint over the mannequins, and I made a few layers of the art history brush getting smaller and smaller. Then came the more fun part of using some custom Photoshop brushes to ‘paint’ over that and give it a more real painted look. After that was time for some grungy brushes to add some more texture. Then came the colorful background done in the same fashion to add some flair.

I’m very pleased with how this turned out, and hopefully someday soon I can actually create this using real paints…

As of the time posting this, I feel this is my best work as a web designer to date. It’s no coincidence that it’s my most recent (at the time of writing this). A lot of time and effort was put into this site. The site is built in .NET with valid and semantic XHTML and CSS and jQuery for some effects.

This site was designed at Quexion and is the flagship product of Quexion. EnterpriseMail is a business email hosting service with many great features. The theme behind this site was simplicity and personability. It is a small company so it has very great one-on-one customer service, which is what I tried to show with this site design. I also tried to have very clear call to actions and tried to encourage users to call.

This was a flier I designed for my good friend Don Santino at Starry Eyed Music. This flier is promoting an event at Confidential in downtown San Diego.

This was a flier design submitted to be used as a template for Industry Wednesdays at Voyuer featuring Starry Eyed Music.