spiral sun designs

Yet another blog on how to make your own goggles

2008-08-28T16:45:00.008-04:00

A while ago I decided that for Halloween I wanted to dress up as some sort of steampunk something. Which, of course, means really cool goggles. I am a bit short on funds, but I have a ton of crafty stuff, and I like to think that given enough time I can make just about anything. After looking at a bunch of examples online, I thought "I can do this" and today was my day off, so why not do it now?
I started with some PVC plumbing parts that I found at my local hardware store and superglued on some metal electrical thingies (I don't know the technical names for any of these). I thought the metal things looked kind of like gears.

Next, I spray painted it all with a brown metallic paint. (Note: I paid a little extra for spray paint that sticks to everything, including plastic. If you make your own, watch out for that because not all spray paint sticks to plastic.)

After the paint was dry, I didn't think it looked metallic enough, so I painted over it with gold paint to make it shinier.

Next, I found a scrap piece of leather, laid my pieces out on the back of it, and drew an outline of where to cut with a Sharpie.

Then I cut out the leather, and glued it on to the eye parts using more superglue. I also added on some more shiny parts for decoration.

And this is another view of it almost done. At this point, all I had to do was add on a strap and the glass part. For the strap I just used black elastic. The glass part though was a more difficult. I found some thin plexiglass and managed to cut pieces that were mostly round. It didn't matter too much if they weren't perfect because the PVC pieces would cover the edges. I just used more superglue and glued the plexiglass on the inside of the eye pieces.And it's all done! I think they turned out amazingly well. Now I just need to get the rest of my costume in order.

More photography

2008-06-27T16:22:00.007-04:00

I've been taking a bit of a break, but now it's time to jump back into things and be productive. To kick things off, I give you more photography. This time, of people. These are all people I know, most of them family. Photos are roughly in chronological order, the first one was taken almost 8 years ago...

Birds

2008-06-18T20:06:00.008-04:00

A few entries ago, I posted two things I had done for my illustration project. Today, I have the rest of them and better scans of the first two. If you don't remember, it is a bird calender.

fandomopoly

2008-06-15T11:42:00.002-04:00

My final for my digital layout class was to create a new version of monopoly. Me, being the nerd that I am, made Fireflyopoly. I just had to make the board, not the whole game, but at some point, I would like to make it all and make it playable. For that, I love some input. Like, ideas for cards and stuff. Anyways, here is the board. I want to know what people think of it and if I should change anything.
(click on the picture to see it bigger)

Just a teaser

2008-06-07T14:45:00.002-04:00

I fail at posting on a regular basis, and this isn't even a real entry.

I'm working on a project right now (it will be up here in a few days. Promise.) and my inner typography nerd is coming out. I hate my fandom right now because it's forcing me to use Papyrus. So much hate. But I can't see a way around it without being just as lame...

And I realize that no one really cares about this... but I felt like sharing.

I can draw

2008-05-23T11:18:00.002-04:00

Right now, I'm taking an illustration class. We basically have one big project due at the very end. We're working in pairs and making a calendar. My partner and I are doing our calender about birds. My scans are kinda weird looking, but you can still get an idea of what it looks like. It's done with watercolors and Micron pens (which are the best pens ever, btw). These are the first two I have completed. I have another two started, and then two more I have to do after that. Oh, and I only have three weeks left to finish it all.

Jacksonville can be pretty

2008-05-18T11:50:00.009-04:00

Yesterday, I mentioned posting some photos. So, in no particular order, I give you some photos of Jacksonville. (Because if I don't have some sort of theme, you'll get all kinds of random stuff)

Getting a feel for things...

2008-05-17T09:08:00.006-04:00

Welcome to my new and improved art blog. I promise to actually update this one. Really. Hopefully weekly, but maybe not. It depends on how crazy school gets. Speaking of which, expect to see a lot of school projects on here...

How about I just get right into it? Here's a few old projects.

This is a poster for a font I created. Well, sort of. I don't have a way of making it a font file that can actually be typed with.
This next one is part of another Typography project. I made my face out of letters.

Next time, I think I'll post some photography.