Guardian

Since about the beginning of break I've been working on a lot of personal work, trying to put together a series of 5 pieces. The theme through out the 5 pieces is the idea of the "Dark Passenger", the burden of ones desires vs. their own sense of self and about the exploration of the shadow self, as well my own personal archetypes. Its a concept that was semi inspired by the show Dexter (fantastic series by the way). This is the first piece that I've finished for the series, this piece was alot of fun to work on, i had to do a lot of back and forth with this one, but by no means was it.... unBEAR-able!...i know, im the worst. The title for this piece is "Guardian", hope everyone diggs it.

10" x 13", mixed media on paper

Sibling Rivalry

Sibling Rivalry
Adobe Illustrator, 300 dpi
17"x22"

I was also thinking of going with the title 'Casino Bro-yale', but Claire wasn't having any of that. This was the final project for my Information Illustration class, the project was a personal poll of some kind. For mine i decided to secretly document my brothers daily habits against those of my own. As you can probably guess this became a competition really quickly. Once all the data was collected Claire and i came to the conclusion of representing the information as a circular chart--that would also tie in with the whole spy vs. spy/ James bond feel i was going for with the Vector portraits. The panel from the National Post was back again for the critique, Richard Johnson, Kagan Mcleod and Andrew. Overall i was really satisfied with how this turned out and the presentation went really well, with a few minor adjustments that were made.

How to Handcuff a Criminal

Being a man entitles you to a number of generous 'perks' that just make life so much sweeter....an example of such would be moustaches, and what is known as a "Man Test". The "Man Test" is a right passed down from the greats: Jesus, Vishnu, Colombo, where in every man has the ability to challenge a fellow brethren to any act that could be deemed 'manly'. You may ask, what does the Man Test have to do with an Information illustration? Well to make a long story short, I challenged Gregory Dubeau to get pepper sprayed in the face, and he subsequently challenged me to be tazered. So Greg and I went to the police station one faithful morning, accompanied by the lovely Melodie Papp who came prepared to watch and laugh.

We were greeted by Constable Vegso, a member of the Halton Regional Police Department. He provided us with step by step demonstration on how to hand-cuff, tazer, and pepper spray someone, as well as baton and fire arm etiquette.

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) we werent able to finish our Man Test. However i was handcuffed and taken down by a police officer...im sure thats something to be proud of.

Master Bill

Master Bill Tour Poster

Photoshop, 10"x16"

Master Bill Digi-pack CD

PhotoShop, 17"x5"

Master Bill was the name of the band that i made for our graphic design project, if they were real i think they'd sound like Muse meets Stabbing Westward...and they would go on a tour where in fact Red heads would have more fun.