Work-in-Progress: Landing Page

I've been meaning to create a portfolio-style Web site for some of my best pieces.  You know, as a way to show off appear more professional to rich benefactors potential clients/employers. So I ended up sketching a few ideas. This one is in the lead.

The Colors of Main Street, USA, Disneyland (east side)

Blast! I thought I'd complete the 'Street' by doing the other side, but I should have been paying more attention. There are WAY more facades on the east side than the west, and some don't even have names. So there's no symmetry with all four pieces. And it took much more time since there are five more facades than the other side. (If you're a die-hard fan, you'll notice I skipped one altogether. My apologies.)

Really Bad Kitty Plushie

The Colors of Main Street, USA, Disneyland (west side)

I was working on a project having to do with a simplified, illustrated version of Main Street, USA, at Disneyland. So as part of my marathon training, I ran to Disneyland (2.25 miles) with my iPhone, paused my Nike+ app and entered the park to take some pictures of Main Street. After jogging home, I pulled out the colors of each section for the project. Then I thought it would be pretty cool to have a swatch-based piece for fun. So I started a completely different project!

Keep in mind that it's an iPhone and a cloudy day. So in no way should this be considered a replication of the exact colors. Total approximation here, folks. The top image is the southwest portion, the bottom the northwest.

The amount of each swatch is based on the percentage of that color that my eye sees when I go a little cross-eyed and blurry. I probably should have had an adult beverage; it might have improved my accuracy.

Really Bad Kitty Series

Disneyland's Star Traders Neon Mural: ANIMATED!

A special thanks to Eclectic Esthetic for animating my Star Traders Neon mural art. Super neat-o!

Disneyland's Star Traders Neon Mural

Thought it would be a fun little project to recreate the neon mural on the side of Star Traders in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. (And by fun I mean, five hours of exacting vector work.) Might make a cool animated gif, too.

Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room Part 3

I was told that the original totem dudes needed some totem buddies.  So here's the latest pledges to the ongoing Tiki Room fraternity.

Disney California Adventure Entrance Concept

I love the idea of the Pan Pacific Auditorium as an entrance to a theme park. California Adventure is getting just that. But that idea is already in use at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida.

I think California Adventure deserves its own unique entrance. This is just a concept of my own invention by using bits of inspiration from all over California.

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Disneyland's Splash Mountain

This design is actually based on the original model of Splash Mountain entrance barn before it was built, so some of the coloring and design is a bit different than what was actually constructed. My main goal was really just to make some vector wood grain since I had never done it.

Disneyland's Submarine Voyage

Here's an old school submarine from Disneyland's Submarine Voyage with a little nod to the current attraction.

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I was hoping to incorporate some foreground or background detail and thought nautical flags would be cool if done right. I ended up passing on that idea, but I had already made the flags. Each flag stands for a letter. And, yes, you guessed it, the letters spell out SUBMARINE VOYAGE.

Disney has a history of referencing a piece of attraction history if something new replaces something old. In 'The Many Adventure of Winnie the Pooh" at Disneyland, the original Max, Melvin and Buff are hidden above and behind the riders. You can't see them unless you turn around. In the 'Indiana Jones Adventure,' there's an old Eeyore sign in the projector room as a wink to the fact that the show building for the attraction takes up the former Eeeyore parking lot. In this case, I wanted to play with the reverse and have an old attraction contain a nod to a future one. Darla from 'Finding Nemo' has a porthole all her own.

Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room Part 2

These crocodiles are actually on a singing totem pole.  I have them holding up a bowl here for a specific purpose on a side project.  I think they are adorable, but I'm not in love with my gradient work.

Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room

While working on a little side project, I needed an original graphic inspired by Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room.  It's one of my favorites and makes me miss Country Bear Jamboree and America Sings, the kinds of attractions I wanted my niece and nephew to experience.

New Project Updated Again

I keep re-doing this.  And I'm finally quite happy with the latest version.  I'm not 100% happy.  I'm 78% sure that I'm 100% done with messing around with this though. At least, that's what 23% of my brain says.

New Project Updated

Wanted to create a bigger visual impact, so I adjusted the layout.

New Project

Working on a little side project.  This is just an initial design.  A look-and-feel kind of thing with heavy influence from a certain Disneyland attraction.