Graphic Design
- Website Design
- Page Layout
- Logo Creation
The most challenging and rewarding part of my career. Since I first started coding websites a few years ago, I have been on a mission to learn whatever I can about design & typography.
Illustration
- Vector Illustration
- Traditional Art
- Life Drawing
My interest in illustration was the stepping stone for my work in computer graphics. Digital mediums have opened a lot of doors for me creatively, but I do maintain my skills in traditional art.
3D Modeling
- Organic Modeling
- Mechanical Modeling
- Rendering
I have been fascinated by 3D modeling since my first character modeling class. Working in 3D affords me the ability to create characters and environments with even more realism.
- Red Corner Publishing: Design for fictional publishing company. Site is intended to be eye catching and easy to use. 4 column grid was used to keep the layout nice and organized, and the intense color to invoke excitement. <a href='http://www.gabrielsoli.com/archives/redcorner/index-rc.html'>Launch Project.</a>
- The Flower Gazette: Design mock-up for a flower and plant care blog. Main focus was on maintaining a clean, grid-based design (954px wide, 12 columns) <a href='http://www.gabrielsoli.com/archives/flowergazette/index.html'>Launch Project.</a>
- My portfolio website. After many nights of testing my limits of sleep deprivation, I am finally finished.(well, for now anyway…). Site uses a bit of JavaScript for effects as well as database programming to serve dynamic content.
- Premier Properties: Website designed and developed for real estate advertising publication in Katy, Texas. Features Flash editions of magazines. <a href='http://www.premierpropertiesinfo.net'>Launch Project</a>
- Home Profiles: Website for real estate advertising magazine in North Houston. Implements Flash and PHP to generate online edition of magazine with searchable index. (project no longer exists).
- Sticky Fins: Poster design for Houston department store intended for internal use for anti-theft campaign. Utilized bold color palette and sharp, angular lines to command attention and evoke sense of excitement and energy.
- Little Dragons of the Rain Forests: Design for a fold out page for an article about the origins and life cycle of the green iguana. Typography selection based on contrast of texture and the analogous color palette reinforces the photograph subject and its connection to nature.
- Module Monkeys: Advertising piece for design consulting and services company that focuses on grid-based design for various marketing solutions. This minimalist design implements a powerful image and composition, subtle tinting of text, and touches of color to communicate message.
- Rising From the Ashes: Page layout for an article about the Giant Sequoias of the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park. Careful attention was paid to the arrangement of elements on the baseline grid. Typography combination coincides with the age of the trees as well as their American origins.
- Rec Corner: Logo for a fictional online publishing company. For a foward thinking company who is passionate about helping people publish print material as well as content for the digital age.
- Flower Gazette: For a blog concerning all things flower, plant, and garden related. A mix of complimentary and analogous colors and earth tones to reinforce the connection to the subject. Typography selection based on certain structures' resemblance to floral anatomy.
- Fine Roots: Design for a publishing and information services company whose entire foundation is built on the resolution to change our world by educating others about the environment, renewable energy and conservation. Font and colors state the company's modern objectives.
- Module Monkeys: Logo for a design consulting and services agency. Color combination and graphics imply a playful, childlike disposition for discovery while evoking a sense of security and devoted guidance.
- Devons Gourmet Candies: Logo design for candy company targeting modern, younger generation. Required a color palette that said "delicious" while remaining bold.
- Black Jill: An experiment whose tortured existence began in the wake of the second world war after the death of her children. Considered to be nothing more than a myth for over a century, the secrecy shrouding Black Jill and her soldiers was lifted during the first wave of invasions originating in the Kuiper Belt.
- The Kuiper Void: The first of many invaders that arrived through portals in the Kuiper Belt just outside of Neptune's orbit. Though damaged by a large nuclear blast while still in space, it is still able to manipulate the surrounding gravity due to the massive amount of energy stored within its body. It haunts the earth with a weapon that generates a powerful, magnetically induced clean fusion reaction that is capable of destroying entire cities.
- Stu & Ms. Sharky: Ms. Sharky is attempting to purchased a bag that she has loaded with extra merchandise. Stu is not amused. One of a series of illustrations done for anti-theft posters for a department store in Houston.
- Sneak Sharky: A mysterious burglar stuffing his coat with merchandise. One of a series of illustrations done for anti-theft posters for a department store in Houston.
- Norma: An exercise in understanding the diversity of facial features among individuals. Colored drawing pencil on paper.
- The Marshal's Plight: Large drawing composed of a grid of smaller drawings focused on the interaction of nature and man. Graphite on paper.
- Seeshell: Part of the composition has been sectioned off to give a zoomed in, detailed look at the object. Graphite on paper.
- Materialistic: Use of lighting and various materials to study the effects of reflection and refraction. Charcoal on paper.
- Porcelain: A drawing intended to emphasize the human tendency to deceive and covet. Graphite on paper. 18x24.
- Red Portrait: Drawing done during portrait lessons in life drawing class. Dual color charcoal on toned paper.
- Faces: Four quick sketches done for the purpose of studying facial anatomy. Colored drawing pencil on paper.
- Ana M. Soli: Portrait of a distant and somewhat mysterious relative interpreted from an old photograph. Graphite on paper.
- The Oppressor: 3D model of an assassin consisting of primarily a single subdivision surface. Contains a skeletal system complete with realistic joint and muscle movements.
- 350Z: Mechanical model of a car built from adjoining panels using spline techniques to create controlled, smooth surfaces.
- Treacherous Path: This scene was created by applying a displacement map of layered alpha images to a flat, high resolution plane of polygons. Fog and additional textures were added to give the illusion of atmospheric perspective and clouds.
