Personal Projects
Kade Piece
Description
Another piece from Illustrator and finished in Photoshop.
Posted on: October 30, 2011
Kade Piece
Description
Just a quick piece that I draw in pencil, draw up in Illustrator, and finished in Photoshop.
Posted on: October 5, 2011
Self Portrait: July 28, 2011
A quick digital self portrait done in Painter 12. I love the feel of the pencils and chalk.
Posted on: July 28, 2011
Koi Fish VS Ocotpus
Description
This was a watercolor and ink painting on 15x20 illustration board. I just wanted some struggle between the two creatures.
Posted on: May 15, 2011
Lowan
Description
As a gift for my nephew, Lowan, I drew his name in graffiti letters. He used to love to point at everything when he was little, so the arrows seemed fitting.
Posted on: December 4, 2010
My Kids' Names
Description
I did a few graffiti-style sketches of my kids' names a few months back. I wanted to try out the new features in Illustrator CS5 so here is the finished product.
Posted on: September 3, 2010
Koi Fish in Watercolor
Description
This started as a group project idea at work, but I know how hard it is to get motivated and to do some personal work. I ended up just finishing it myself.
This was the first time I hvae painted anything traditional in a long time and the first time I have used watercolors. They are NOT very forgiving, but very fun.
Posted on: August 1, 2010
Painting for My Father: Gregory Adomanis - 2010
Description
This a painting to symbolize and capture my dad's experience through life thus far. From his father in WWII Germany to having 2 kids as a teenager then going to Vietnam. Then marrying my mother and becoming a professional fire fighter to having 4 more kids and 8 grandkids (the birds), so far. I am proud of him as a person and proud to have him as my father.
This was all painted digitally in Photoshop. Even though I started this about a year and a half ago and finally as a 60th birthday present for my father. After life getting in the way, I finally finished it for him a few weeks ago.
Enjoy.
Posted on: July 30, 2010
Kade Piece at Reid Menzer Skatepark - 2009
Description
Through a friend of mine, I was lucky enough to be part of the mural at the Reid Menzer Memorial Skatepark in York, PA. The mural was updated for the one year anniversary.
This is my first graffiti piece in probably 12 years or so. I felt rustier than a screw, but got it done with a little help from my friends (since they had caps that fit these new male cans).
Posted on: September 30, 2009
Kids Love for Mom
Description
A 10'x20' painting for my wife, Meredith. It is a portrait of each of our kids 3 hands and showing their love for their mother. Done with oils in Painter X.
Posted on: December 31, 2008
Kids Portraits
Description
From a project I started in December 2006, I was going to have a portrait of each of my 3 kids arranged youngest to oldest in 3 frames. All of them were looking at each other with a very distinct, personal expression, had thier favorite colors, and had some personal traits within the background. Unfortunately I lost the time to finish any more of them than the one of Kade. Since it has been 2 years and they are still unfinished, I will attempt to do this again when the time allows.
These were all done in Painter IX with the sharp pencil, oil brush, and oil pastels.
Posted on: December 31, 2008
The Great Discovery
Description
From the worldwide, online contest Last Man Standing 2, this was my entry for Round 3. The topic was "The Great Discovery". After spilling out many ideas, I settled on how cave men discovered fire. But I wanted to add a twist into how they discovered it.
With this entry, I came in 3rd out of 5, so I did not move on to the next round. I was pretty happy with what I was judged because the competition was steep and I was in the same bracket with many amazing artists.
Illustrated in Photoshop CS2.
Posted on: November 12, 2006
The Escape
Description
From the worldwide, online contest Last Man Standing 2, this was my entry for Round 2. The topic was "The Escape". This was one of the first out of 12 concepts that I came up with. This was a very personal piece to me as well, since my father was a fire fighter in PG county MD.
With this entry, I won this round to move onto round 3.
Posted on: September 24, 2006
Puppet Master
Description
This was a month-long Character of the Week contest on Conceptart.org. The topic was puppet master.
Posted on: January 15, 2006
Professional Projects
Virtual Preceptorship
Responsiblities: Creative Art Direction / Interactive UI Design / Graphical Design / 3D Design : Rendering : Compositing
3D Environments
UI Design
Description
A long term interactive solution to meet the needs of pharmaceutical sales reps that wanted to know everything about a hospital and certain medical specialties. This way we could virtually have them shadow a doctor for the day without being in a real hospital setting, which involves a lot of complications.
From the start, we were pretty sure that we were going to use 3D, but we wanted the user to feel like they were in the environments, so they had to look and feel real. Using 3DS Max and VRay for the environments and Flash for the entire UI, it worked out to be a very successful application.
Posted on: March 15, 2007
Pain Management Machines
Responsiblities: Creative Art Direction / 3D Design : Rendering : Compositing
Description
A client wanted to show detailed models of their pain management machines for training purposes. They had very small and bad reference images to work from. I modeled and rendered these from scratch in 3DS Max and used VRay to render the final images.
Posted on: May 17, 2006
Medical Illustrations for a Training Module
Responsiblities: Creative Art Direction / Illustration
Description
A few medical illustrations created for a training module for pharmaceutical sales representatives. I created all of these from scratch in Photoshop.
Posted on: June 18, 2006
Nutropin Audio CDs
Responsiblities: Creative Art Direction / Design
Description
A created a set of 6 CD labels for an audio series on Growth Hormone deficiencies. I wanted all of the labels to look nice and similar, but each have its own flavor. So I chose major rainbow colors in the order of the light spectrum, ROYGBV. Unfortunately, this project never went beyond the design stage and was never put into production.
Posted on: June 18, 2006
Logofolio
Responsiblities: Creative Art Direction / Design
Description
These are the logos that I produced for clients and friends over the past years. Some of them were used publicly and some were not. All are designed from scratch using Adobe Illustrator.