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this is the white comic pane art with a black border used behind images to help highlight them and bring out contrast. It was used because the red page background has dots resembling news paper print and detracts from contrast when reading. The white pane allows a comic book feel and adds sections.
A fake flyer created in Photoshop to advertise a chili market. It feature red peppers and text with fire inside.

Graphic Art (Demos)

This image in Adobe Illustrator features a photoshop gorill with skull imagery on the face and an army helmet with cigar and custom text edited with liquify tools.

Adobe Illustrator artwork featuring a military gorilla found on Pixabay blended with a skull in Photoshop and custom manipulated font.

Photoshop flyer

A penguin sitting by water with bubbles in it created while watching a tutorial on Adobe Illustrator.

A practice penguin in Illustrator.

Adobe Illustrator art that features a fake advertisement for wild gorilla photo. The image shows a samurai gorilla with a super imposed Japenese red sun, a cherry blossom tree, background garden imagery and asian styled text that reads Wild Gorilla Photo.

"Picture make you go ooh. Ahh!"
Illustrator Art

An elderly person in a fake PSA image about dementia that reads The Face of Dementia in the title.

Mock PSA or magazine article cover. Landscape. Possibly 2 page layout.

A custom pink diamond pattern created in Adobe Illustrator.

I'm in a new "pattern" of making Illustrator designs and patterns. Patterns are used for backgrounds, clothing, gift wrap, textiles and upholstery and more. 

Adobe Illustrator art showing a water blob with hand drawn refelctive highlights and the text that reads The Blobs

Shape art in Illustrator.

A mock up graphic for a fake pizzeria called the moody mushroom featuring colorful text, a pizza and a mushroom drawn in adobe Illustrator.

A mock up pizzeria logo image in Illustrator using my original artwork concept. It's moody but bright and hot and ready to serve up. Ummmm.

color blindness color tone chart

Section 508
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Section 508 disability standards require background to stay within text color ratios. Fortunately we don't have to memorize these standards. Using Adobe.color.com we can use their contrast and color blindness tools which operate within those compliance boundaries. We also need to take care in choosing fonts that are easily read. In this case I chose a blue title font that is different from the body text and ensured contrast was approved for each color choice. I also used Illustrator's spellcheck to catch any misspellings. A gray scale version was created and if a row has similar tones I may reconsider my color values for contrast.

Gray scale color blindness chart.

Horizontal row 2 has 2 similar gray scale tones. I would reconsider editing the color tones to produce higher contrast. Similar tones per horizontal row are in red brackets.

Adobe Illustrator cteated art. An illustrated sun beams with rays and sunglasses in front of a rainbow with transparent hippie like swirls. The puffy bottom title text reads "groovy".

A groovy Adobe Illustrator created sun.

Roadway of Life image. An illustrated highway vanishes in the distance over hills with a partly cloudy fair sky that uses a gradient to fade to stormy skies with a lightining bolt reading life is a highway. Rain or shine where are you going today?
Illustrations
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This Adobe Illustrator project took about 2.5 hours to complete. It used a lot of replication and lines and paint brush dabs to find the correct mix. I layered it and felt the philosophical question was a nice touch. It's a relevant question at any given time. 

If you ask me the answer to the question I'd say. I'm going to the future and that is a factor of my choices, the choies of others and that I cannot control in life. In all cases I make turns along the way and am always along for the ride in whatever vehicle I drive.  To say I'm in full control is arrogance. I work with the current route and stick to it or re-route as necessary.  Sometimes the route requires patience or a rush.
The image shows a mock user interface for an iphone 16 pro screen of a video game called Road Hog. A car sit across both lanes of a 2 lane highway with dark clouds and lightnin in the distance. The illusration has a red bar with 3 mock icons at bottom and a black bar across the top with the title Road Hog The Driving Game.

Figma UI Design

This simple mock video game UI features a game I called Road Hog. The format of the frame is for an iPhone 16 Pro. The icons were practice Illustrator icons I worked on from a tutorial. The car is a Pixabay illustration colorized by me in Photoshop. The background is my original illustration shown on the left. The fonts are a Figma design with a shadow effect.

So are you ready to be the Road Hog? Make sure you brake for swine.

 
Play for Swine Sound
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A Christmas (Photo) Story.
It's not a leg lamp for sure...

This is a christmas photo with a tree and a family member with improper white balance.
This is a christmas photo with a tree and a family member with adjusted white balance color correction.

  Before Color Corrections                        After Corrections

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Title: Close Encounters of the Audio-Visual Kind

Cast: Stevie Gomez, Charles Mester, Michael Davila
Creative Direction: Stevie Gomez and Michael Davila
Videography: Stevie Gomez, Michael Davila
Video Motion Graphics and Editing: Stevie Gomez
Post Sound: Michael Davila and Stevie Gomez
Music: Stevie-Horror, "Planetary Dawn"
A video produced for StageTech Inc.,

Austin, TX
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A comic book graphic from the wix image library of a comic book character with head goggles and a police officer and other character seemingly pointing an an unseen point of interest.
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Video, Photos and Editing by Stevie Gomez.
Lower 3rd's by Michael Davilla.
Music "Hustle" by Peyruis.
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A video created to promote a new DJ booth and LED lighting system used by StageTech Inc. at live event productions on social media. 
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Shot with a motorized Gimbal camera.
Featured often at the Blanton Museum of Art shows.

Featured Videos

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 These are recent examples of simpler demos done using Adobe After Effects (AE). The video above on the left features a 3D environment displaying image maps and AE's CC Sphere effect. Lighitng was implemented with a mask to simulate the movement of the sunlight and shadws over the surface of the Earth. 
 
The video on the right is shorter but deomonstates 2D animation in AE.  We've heard too many tales of the demise of a Gold Fish down a drain. The fish and pipe were simply drawn by me quickly in Krita. A free video of water bubbles from Pixabay.com was used. Using the Transform and Rotation settings I maniuplated the bubbles to turn the direction of the water flow in a manner I might expect to see on Cartoon Network or some other independent animation show.
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