Corvette Photo Manipulation

The Corvette photo manipulation was done for photographer Kelly Mulner. It is one of the largest photo manipulations I have done. It took over 20 separate images to create the one final image.

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Salon Six Print Materials

Salon Six required updated business cards, menu cards and a new sandwich board. My design incorporated the colors used in the salon as well as a nod to their hardwood floors. I also did a small tweak to their logo to improve readability without drastically changing the look so they could keep older marketing materials and signage.

Off to San Diego CC

The bags are packed, portfolio is updated and I've got a stack of business cards burning a hole in my pocket. It's time to head to the San Diego Comic Con. I'm looking forward to meeting up with old friends and making new connections. I will be checking e-mail but expect delays in replies.

Welcome to my new site

It's been a long time coming but I'm finally finished enough of my new site to put it on-line. The blog will be a mix of "what am I working on" posts as well as new portfolio pieces sorted by date. While I'm still filling out the portfolio some of the older pieces I did will be back dated in the blog.

The portfolio is sorted by my own ranking system with my favorites coming first. I have also set up a tagging system so that a person can better sort through the various work that I have done. Using the tag cloud a person can select to only veiw my website work, comic coloring work, 3D work, etc. The Photoshop tag is the largest section since I use it in pretty much everything I do.

Even though the site isn't 100% complete I'm putting it up now since it's done enough to give a good idea of the various work that I do and by adding in the rest of the portfolio items later I'll look like I'm constantly updating the site ;)

Jaysin.ca

I finally updated my portfolio site in 2010. A client had made a joke about my portfolio site being like an electrician who never has the time to change the burnt out light bulb in his own home. Well, I have finally made the time to change that burnt out old web site.

My philosophy in regards to my portfolio site is that it should be a simple design that keeps the focus on the individual projects and not distract you with every gimmick from my bag of tricks.

Once again I am building on the ModX CMS to make updates to the site a little easier on myself. I also designed the site to take advantage of the latest css 3 features like rounded corners, text and box shadows to keep the site as lightweight and streamlined as possible. The downside to this approach is that the site will not look as pretty for the small amount of users with older browsers that don't support these features. To me it's an acceptable trade off since the site stays perfectly usable despite the missing flair.

DPI Studios

DPI Studios is the studio I formed along with my long time friend and artistic partner Aaron Norell (aka Embrio).

DPI Studios' focus has been to create the kind of artwork we grew up admiring. Working on projects for the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game and White-Wolf's Exalted RPG were totally rewarding experiences, but it is our personal creations and vision that have captured our fans attentions the most.

Guardian Gear

The Guardian Gear website was built in early 2010 and is still undergoing development. The client was eager to get a site up as soon as possible while they finish business preparations for the online store. I used my favorite CMS ModX as the back-end so the client is able to log into the site and make updates to the news and catalog items themselves.

I think it's also worth mentioning that this is the first site I have built that uses web fonts. This gives the navigation and headers a custom look regardless if the users' computer has the appropriate fonts installed. By using downloaded web fonts for navigation and headers instead of images this keeps the site flexible for updates by the client.

Click here to got to the Guardian Gear site.

World of Warcraft TCG

These are some of paintings I did for Upper Decks's World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. The line art was created by my partner Embrio at DPI Studios. They were done mostly in Painter when I was forcing myself to learn it better.

TikiTown Tattoo and Spa

TikiTown Tattoo and Spa was the first site I had built after being out of web design for a couple of years and I was eager to soak up all the changes. Finally png transparency was widely supported, cross browser css support has greatly improved, and javascript was cool again. Probably one of the biggest changes and learning curves was that content management systems have become common place. After researching the countless varieties of CMS' out there I came to love the flexibility of ModX.

Even in the short amount of time that has past since I finished the TikiTown site I have learned so much more and will surely be doing some updates soon.

Click here to got to the TikiTown Tattoo and Spa site.

Pure Heroine

Pure Heroine is a collection of amazing pin-up illustrations by Laurie B. These are a some of the ones I've been lucky enough to color.