Video Game

Here is my video game assignment, not so happy with the background and the scoring showing up as a white bar but everything else Im ok with.  This was done with construct 2 following the tutorial. The base designs were done in Photoshop and saved as png's.

Thematic Fire text

Here I have the Before and After images of my thematic text assignment.  I went with fire using a font called Dark Crystal.  This was all done in Photoshop and Edge Animate.  Besides using a mask for the fire beneath the words and around the words i also used a separate layer above each mask with two colors of fire to add to the effect.  For the buttons i used to transition i wanted to be a little creative.  All in all i was happy with the outcome and it gave me some more time to practice with edge animate.

Endora Web Page

Here is a screen shot of my Web page from the last assignment.  I used a theme that is geared towards writers.  since I am a writer i used a novel i'm working on called Realms Of Endora: Demons Fall.
  I used two of the main character images for the header and background and posted the prologue up to chapter 3 on the site.
I am happy with the outcome and plan to continue using this.  Word press, Microsoft word, Photoshop were all used for this project.

Realms Of Endora Site

Card Dance

Here i have my card dance video assignment using my Lockheart legends themed pictures i used in a previous gallery.  I wasnt going  for anything in particular on this assignment but just making sure that everything worked properly, i did get frustrated with getting specific angels with the camera but i still enjoyed this project.  i essentially used Photoshop CS6, Pen and paper for the base pictures, After effect, Premiere Pro, and some online music.

Newsletter Email

 Here i have the logo i designed for the Galloping Gertie newsletter and the newsletter itself.  I wasnt going for any specific theme but chose to use a brick red color with some brown.  The color wording i used seemed to work on my computer not sure how it will appear on others but i felt it added to the old school cars.  I found actual websites for the group and used that for the newsletter.  I'm happy with its outcome though im sure i could of done more.

Lockheart professional web site

Here i have a picture of the original template i started with for my web page and below is the final product thus far.  I plan to add more and actually use this with my web site replacing the current format. I used various pieces of my artwork old and new some from the current web site i have.  All in all I am happy with the outcome and look forward to adding on to it.  i was sticking to the theme with the yellow orange since it fit my overall theme i used on my original web site.

Lockheart Legends Gallery

  For this gallery i was aiming to add some of my new artwork showing how much its advanced over the year.  Each Character is a signature character from short stories, comic strips, or my novel that I've been working on for years.  All are very important creations with meaning and bits of my personality in them.
 The core tools used were Dreamweaver and Photoshop CS6 with some hand drawn pictures before being scanned onto the computer.  I am very happy with the end results and will problably use this tool more with my website.

Lockheart Legends Gallery

Slam Cover Submissions

My final Slam cover designs, The second one i was going for a set of Polaroids similar to what i did in an earlier project.  The First cover design was with a style i use often taking a photo and drawing the line work, coloring the flat colors and adding some shadows and lights.  All the tools used for both designs involved my camera all the same photo of one of the buildings, and photoshop CS6 using the brush tools and a few actions.  Over all Im satisfied more with the first Slam cover design i did the second Im happy with but not as much as the first.

Shape Animation

Here we Have My shape Animation assignment.  The purpose here was to create some vector shapes and make them change in some form or way.  I believe i have about 8 vector shapes some distorting or copied and all changing and twisting.  I wasn't fully aiming for anything in particular but just chaos.  all in all I'm somewhat satisfied with the end result.

Lockheart © Gallery

Here is My Pop up Gallery
The pictures themselves were designed in Adobe Photoshop pertaining to my Novel and other various stories I write.  The tools used for this video were, Photoshop CS6, After Affects, And Premiere Pro.
I wasn't going for anything particular than just a working moving video gallery that would satisfy me.  In the end i was happy with the end result.

Wall The Card Game

Above are my four card designs for a possible game called Wall.  The First card Reinforce pictures a simple design of a hammer hitting a nail symbolizing something getting fixed.  The second picture is of an ancient Japanese wall, that card i named the sacred wall, which is used in many feudal Japanese castles and shrines. The third picture is a logo design for the back of the card, the fourth card is of a medevil battering ram device charging towards a wall in hopes of breaking it down, this will be the damage card.

I used a combination of Photoshop tactics with Illustrator, the images themselves were done in photoshop since i'm more comfortable with it, The pen tool, polygon lasso tool, paint brush and layers for base colors, shadows, and lighting were my steps before transferring each image over to illustrator.
This project I'm actually very happy with, the new techniques I added in to my artwork made the end result much better.

Battle Of The Beast

North West Battle of the Beast
A logo design for a cross-fit competition i designed in Illustrator.  The Logo is attached to an in design ad i put together, the logo pictures Mt Rainier in the background and a Sasquatch lifting a weight in the foreground.  I feel i could of done better with this design in Adobe Photoshop but I'm still happy with the outcome.

The Ad will hopefully be used for a cross fit competition, Cross fit is a combination of extreme sports and training used for special forces, police academies, Martial arts, and the Military.

Noble Lion

My Tablet sketch design with various brushes on three different layers.  one layer is  used with a wet paint brush type style to give the lighter shade beneath the darker frame of the lion head.  I also tweaked with spacing a faded brush and dual brush strokes.  Lions are my Fav Animal and thought it be different than sketching a superhero.

Car Decal Lockheart Inc. Logo

My vinyl Car decal is my trademark design logo i use on all my artwork.  Lockheart inc. the symbol that defines my Novel and graphic novel as my trademark along with my signed name.

Draconian Lowercase

            This is my lower case font sheet of my Draconian font.  This set also includes a few symbols on the bottom and numbers zero to nine.

Draconian Caps

Above is my draconian font sheet in caps for my DDSGN 220 assignment.  This font was designed to work with the draconian race i created and used in my fantasy novel :Blood Type: Dragon The Tales of Donovan Culver.

Animated Brush Assignment

So the Video above shows my picture i posted from my first blog post.  in the video i have added some brushes and animated them into a video i named The Autumn Storm Archer.

My first blog

Hello everyone and welcome to the first blog by D.N.Coleman Jr.  for those who don't know me yet, my name is Douglas Coleman.  i am a current graphic design student, an artist, and a writer aka published author.  Last year i published my first novel :Blood Type: Dragon the Tales of Donovan Culver Book 1 Foresight and hopefully in a few months book 2 Awakening will be completed.  I am also working on a graphic novel for the series and hope to design an animated sequence.  I enjoy drawing and writing but that's not all there is to me.  i workout practice martial arts and play a few online games.  now this blogging is new to me but I'm sure i'll get the hang of it eventually.

Starting off this first blog is for a current graphic design class, the first assignment requires an animated brush on a photograph i took.  a new skill i acquired was turning photographs into interesting pictures like i did of myself on this blog.  below is the picture i will be using for the first assignment in my DDSGN 220 class.

Stay tuned for more....