UI
Learning UI Design
I wanted to get my feet wet in mobile UI design and came across a wonderful tool/service called Framer. It’s a website where you can sit down with a WYSIWYG editor to prototype out an app design. Animations, linking content,...
January 12, 2021
Graphic Design
Mosaics
Making a neat, simplified mosaic based on a real-life object.
January 5, 2021
Fan Art
Illustration and Coloring
I feel it’s always pretty important to be striving to improve yourself and learn new things. Thankfully, when you want to learn something new or get some tips the internet probably has exactly what you need. My main illustration software...
December 5, 2019
Graphic Design
Happy Holidays Poster Design
Part of my job is taking what a customer sees in their mind and designing it to meet their needs and, if I’m lucky, make them say “Wow! That’s even better than I had in my head!” Sometimes all I...
December 4, 2019
Graphic Design
Building a Brand – Saafi Behavior
While the brunt of the work I do at my current job is laying out and designing signs and displays, sometimes clients come to us to help build their brand and design logos and other assets they will use for...
November 14, 2019
Graphic Design
Concession Stand Menu Board
The State Fair in Minnesota is, to put it lightly, a pretty big deal. I was tasked with designing a menu board for a vendor at the State Fair. The vendor sent me a hand-sketched thumbnail layout and the information...
November 14, 2019
Illustration
Character Design/Color Scheme
It’s no secret that I’m a big nerd so of course it also shouldn’t be a surprise that I play D&D. It’s a ton of fun and it means I get to hang out with my closest friends at least...
March 31, 2019
Fan Art
‘Play the Dragon’ Cover Illustration
I was recently commissioned by my good friend Ryan Molina to do some illustration work for his upcoming book. This is actually the second book of his I’ve done art for and it’s always a blast to work with a...
March 25, 2019
Graphic Design
Skillshare – Patterns
Another night, another Skillshare class. This time I worked on creating patterns in Photoshop and saving them for future use and sharing. It was a neat, quick exercise exploring ideas that I’ve always wanted to play with, but never sunk...