Here is a selection of 2D Designs that I have completed. These include sketches and completed Illustrations of characters, logos, license plate designs, and more!
Below are some characters I created for Fayetteville Technical Community College’s Design Club. The Design Clubs’ theme was based around ducks, so I wanted to create a “Ducktator” and some “Ducktroopers”. They were inspired by Daffy Duck, Chilean Soldiers, and soldier designs from one of my favorite games: Far Cry 6. I recently took these designs to Fayetteville Comic-Con and managed to sell a few of these illustrations! They were created via paper sketches and then brought to Illustrator for digitization. This is one of the first times I have digitized one of my sketches.
My most loved design
This was a personal commission from my dad. He wanted a logo made from the phrase “The One” that also included the number one. I initially started with a sketch, and then after my Dad’s approval, I brought the design into Adobe Illustrator and digitized it. This is one of my first experiences in logo design.
When I showed the fully colored design below to my dad, he loved it. So much so that he decided to save the design as a screensaver, have it printed on a shirt, and even printed on a coffee mug! Not only that, but his work colleagues think the logo is fantastic. Below are a few iterations of the finalized design.
2D Design
Satellite Infographic
This animation was created for a class on design for multimedia (which was a very fun class). I had to create an infographic animation on a satellite that UNCW was involved in making. This satellite would be launched to monitor harmful algae blooms. I was able to create a static infographic in Adobe Illustrator and bring it over to After Effects to animate it. Below is the finalized animation! This was my first experience with 2D animation in After Effects and making animation props from Illustrator.
Song of the United Republic
One of my favorite fantasy series is Avatar: Legend of Korra. I fell in love with it due to the 1920s technology and the addition of a new nation in the Avatar Series: The United Republic of Nations. I had seen music videos for the Fire Nation, Earth Kingdom, and Water Tribes on YouTube, but none for the United Republic. So for one of the small assignments for Multimedia Design, I decided to create one. I utilized Adobe After Effects to create an “animated sound visualization” that is often seen for music on YouTube. For the song, I used a Chinese-sounding song composed by Tiffany Roman Louk for the YouTube show Extra History and included the symbol for the United Republic of Nations. Below is the resulting video.
Veteran Momento
During the Cold War and Vietnam, my grandfather was a navigator for a B-52 Stratofortress, a bomber plane for the US Air Force that is still in service today. My grandfather wanted me to create a license plate/cup design for him. Through the design process of sketching thumbnails, developing a draft, and publishing the final graphic, I asked my grandfather what he wanted in the design and what to change, similar to how I completed the Logo Design for my Dad. This was another example of digitizing a sketch in Illustrator. Here is the final result. (Sidenote: This was imprinting on a mug for my grandfather for Christmas.)
Wings Over Wayne Montage
This video was a commission from my family that I created after attending the 2023 Wings Over Wayne Airshow at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. I had an amazing experience, and my family wanted me to create a video from the footage we captured. I then chose to edit it in Adobe Effects. This is the resulting video! This was one of the first times I gained experience with sifting through footage to create a video montage.
Apex Gun Book Cover
The photos below are from a book cover I was commissioned to create. The story that was chosen for my cover was called Apex Gun, a Sci-Fi/ Young Adult Fiction story about a man who wakes up after a nuclear holocaust and soon meets a female android army after surviving the landscape. I was tasked with creating a book cover based on it. I decided to go with a more Sci-Fi route when designing the book by using Post-Apocalyptic Art to emphasize the setting as well as futuristic guns to allude to the android army. Similar to the Logo and License Plate Design, I sketched some thumbnails of what I thought the book cover should be like. Then I chose the best one and brought it into Illustrator to copy the sketch. This is the first time I’ve had experience designing a book cover.
Wings Over Wayne Montage
Here you see some of my other creative works, including character sketches, book covers, logos, and illustrations!
