> Here is a collection of a few of my art projects that I did while attending Bergen Community College. Please note that a few of my projects are not featured here, either because they no longer live up to my current standards, or because I'm embarrassed with them in some way. Normally, all images on CW with dimensions bigger than 500 x 500 are down-sampled so that the larger dimension equals 500 pixels, but this page is the exception.

NAME: Ancient Rome
DATE COMPLETED: 06-26-2002
DIMENSIONS: 773 x 1000
COMMENTS: During this third and final assignment of my Computer Imaging class, my teacher Gregg Biermann left the rules of the project up to the students. For half the time given on this assignment, I was totally stumped on what to do for it. I eventually decided to do a montage of Ancient Rome since I was also taking Western Civ. at the time. I scanned all of the elements in this pic, except for the title, from my Western Civ. textbook, Western Civilization: Volume 1 Fourth Edition by Jackson J. Spielvogel. This assignment was done entirely in Adobe Photoshop, and was the first time I used the radial gradient tool to make masks. This is a technique I used on the heads of the statues. I was going to include the Roman Coliseum somewhere in the image, but I was already satisfied with the image by the time I had a chance to do it. I intentionally left the third arch on the top row of the Aqueducts blank to show the capitol or Rome on the background map clearly. Besides, I had run out of heads to scan. :)

NAME: Table Battle
DATE COMPLETED: 06-13-2002
DIMENSIONS: 750 x 1000
COMMENTS: This photomontage was the second of three assignments of my Computer Imaging class. But this one was particularly tricky, because this time, I had to take all of the photos myself. The assignment here was to take at least five separate objects, and arrange them so that they look like they all exist in one image, but obviously couldn't in the real world. I decided to do a pic of me riding my nephew Austin like a horse, and armed with a small object, I would fight off a giant insect, mouse, or some other tiny creature, and the action would take place on a coffee table. My plan was to have a side view of the action, but Austin refused to hold still, but my sister Jennifer managed to get a picture of him kneeling on a chair and facing the camera, so I then revolved the project around that. I couldn't find an insect to take a picture of, so I had to settle for a stuffed dragon I got at a Subaru annual picnic. After I used Photoshop to put everything together, I initially felt that the action was too high up on the page, and planned to redo the project. But during the class critique, my teacher Gregg Biermann pointed out that raising the camera would cut off the area below the table, and it would be hard to tell that the action was happening on a table.

NAME: The Small Apple
DATE COMPLETED: 06-08-2002
DIMENSIONS: 800 x 600
COMMENTS: The first of three assignments of my Computer Imaging class. This is a replica of the famous Manhattan skyline in New York City before the terrorists knocked the towers down. I downloaded a bunch of objects from the Web, primarily from the sites Ditto and Google. I then used Adobe Photoshop to assemble all the parts. Although I've used Photoshop lighly in past projects, this assignment is the first time I used it as my primary tool. I finished this project about a week late because of a failed attempt to try something far more complicated. I initially wanted to make the Manhattan skyline from a crowd of people, but its extreme complexity forced me to switch to something less time consuming. The hardest thing about this project was cropping the objects out of their complex backgrounds, but thankfully I'd learned about Photoshop's Quickmask feature just before starting the project. Like some of my other older works, I didn't give this one an official name until just now.

NAME: Bergen MM03
DATE COMPLETED: 05-06-2001
DIMENSIONS: 500 x 500
COMMENTS: This is one of five works I finished on the last day of my Letterform and Type class. Third of three concept logos for the multimedia department of Bergen Community College. I primarily used Paint Shop Pro putting this together, but needed Photoshop to skew the shadow.

NAME: Bergen MM02
DATE COMPLETED: 05-06-2001
DIMENSIONS: 500 x 500
COMMENTS: This is one of five works I finished on the last day of my Letterform and Type class. Second of three concept logos for the multimedia department of Bergen Community College.

NAME: Bergen MM01
DATE COMPLETED: 05-06-2001
DIMENSIONS: 500 x 500
COMMENTS: This is one of five works I finished on the last day of my Letterform and Type class. First of three concept logos for the multimedia department of Bergen Community College.

NAME: Sigma Description
DATE COMPLETED: 05-06-2001
DIMENSIONS: 500 x 500
COMMENTS: This is one of five works I finished on the last day of my Letterform and Type class. The assignment here was to choose any letter from the ancient Roman, Greek, or Phoenician alphabets. This letter would be part of an image, along with its name, and a short description, with the description standing out above the other two attributes of the image. I received a negative review from my teacher, Professor Paul Mindell, about the image, but I still think I deserved an A on this assignment rather than a B. I used both Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop on this one.

NAME: Ancient Letter Sigma
DATE COMPLETED: 05-06-2001
DIMENSIONS: 500 x 500
COMMENTS: This is one of five works I finished on the last day of my Letterform and Type class. The assignment here was to choose any letter from the ancient Roman, Greek, or Phoenician alphabets. This letter would be part of an image, along with its name, and a short description, with the symbol standing out above the other two attributes of the image. I received a negative review from my teacher, Professor Paul Mindell, about the image, but I still think I deserved an A on this assignment rather than a B. Paint Shop Pro was the tool of choice here.

NAME: B is for Bullets
DATE COMPLETED: 02-26-2001
DIMENSIONS: 500 x 500
COMMENTS: Here is one part of a three-part Letterform and Type assignment, in which I was to take a letter of the alphabet, and apply an image into it. The name of the image had to start with the letter I infused it with. The one assignment which is not pictured here is the obvious gear within a lowercase g.

NAME: Freestyle Quake
DATE COMPLETED: 02-26-2001
DIMENSIONS: 500 x 500
COMMENTS: The Quake 3 Arena symbol made from an arrangement of Ts, Is, Us, and Ls. This was for my Letterform and Type class.

NAME: L is for Ladder
DATE COMPLETED: 02-22-2001
DIMENSIONS: 500 x 500
COMMENTS: Here is one part of a three-part Letterform and Type assignment, in which I was to take a letter of the alphabet, and apply an image into it. The name of the image had to start with the letter I infused it with. The one assignment which is not pictured here is the obvious gear within a lowercase g.

NAME: Single Letter Symbols
DATE COMPLETED: 02-22-2001
DIMENSIONS: 500 x 500
COMMENTS: In this Letterform and Type assignment, my job was to take a single letter of the alphabet, then from a pattern by making copies of it. I was not allowed to use mirror images of the letters. I managed to make a star of Ys, a swastica of Rs, a razor blade of Ms, and a clover of Ps.

NAME: Chain Letter
DATE COMPLETED: 02-06-2001
DIMENSIONS: 500 x 600
COMMENTS: This is the one of many assignments I did for my Letterform and Type class in which I had to take a single letter of the alphabet, and make a pattern out of it. I can't remember what the exact details of the assignment were, though. I thought of the image's title just before typing this.

NAME: Torch Intensity
DATE COMPLETED: 12-16-1999
DIMENSIONS: 300 x 300
COMMENTS: Two torches, one of high intensity, the other of low intensity. These were originally two separate images, but I combined them into one image in order to make the comparison easier. I created this image from scratch using Paint Shop Pro, and used animated gifs from the Web as references. This assignment was for my Color Theory class.

NAME: Pool Carrier
DATE COMPLETED: 10-31-1999
DIMENSIONS: 1434 x 750
COMMENTS: A little something I made for my Intro to Computer Graphics class, again in 1999. I used Paint Shop Pro to put together Lei from Tekken 3, a naval warship, a swimming pool, and some vegetables, all images I downloaded for the Web.

NAME: Kaleidoscope Cartman
DATE COMPLETED: 03-28-1999
DIMENSIONS: 600 x 800
COMMENTS: Here's an oldie of mine I did for a 2D design class back in '99. As the name implies, it depicts Eric Cartman from the hit TV show Southpark in a kaleidoscope-like pattern. I cropped Cartman's head from an image I found on the Web, where he was wearing an nWo T-shirt. Then, using stone tools (MS Paint), I generated the color pattern.