My first celebrity portrait using a PC
(Created from a pencil drawing I did years before, scanning it into a PC, changing the look from pencil to ink, adding a layered background and color with Photoshop, all for Photoshop class)

Another celebrity portrait
(Created for typography class, using a single letter, in this case "T", which I thought I could use effectively as cross-hatching without actually using an "X")

My first ever portrait of a friend, Dora
Without the background layer
(Because she asked, and because I wanted to try out Xara, an inexpensive yet powerful vector art program. It gave me the ability to do feathering in vector graphics, which none of my other programs have, used effectively on the shadows)

My second ever portrait of a friend, Angie
Just the face

A friend's son with a Buddhist monk
(I'm getting my own distinct style now, a mix of realism and abstraction)

"A Burst of Happiness"
(Made for art class entirely out of torn paper, except for the flower, which had to be a cut shape)

A phoney dollar bill I made for work
(This is entirely virtual. No such bill physically exists, and I made ALL of it by hand by mixing the Mr. Pig logo, typing in various fonts, utilizing text manipulation techniques, drop shadows, textures, and color, which is how I created what looks like the wrinkled paper it's printed on)

My first attempt at a 3-D figure
A close-up of Mr. Pig's face
A side view of his face
(Created using 3D Studio Max for that class. It was tough trying to make my own version of the logo in 3D, and not just copy the heads on the mascots created for store openings and special occasions, which I think look kind of silly)