Brian Andrew Smith

Becky

Using Adobe Illustrator I created this headshot of my friend Becky. Becky is a teacher who was looking for a way to make her résumé stand out and hired me to create a professional illustration based off her headshot.

Hippo Heroes

I like drawing hippos. In 2013, I began what I now call Hippos for Hire. Hippos for Hire is an online store I'm currently constructing of pop-culture heroes and villains drawn as hippos. I'm aiming for the drawings to be funny. Here's a small sample of the custom artwork I have created. Most of these were created using Strathmore Bristol paper using a combination of Prismacolor and Copic Markers.

However, I have also included a digital illustration of mine that I created and sold in the 2015 Chicago Comic Entertainment Expo (C2E2). It's an 8x10 of the cast of Avengers: Age of Ultron in a piece I call, 'A Whole World Screaming!'.

Comic Garbage

I co-created Brian & Gregg are Going Places in 2011. It began as a Wordpress blog of character designs and concept art. The comic follows the lives of two young Garbage Men, it's about everything from happiness to work. In addition to writing and illustrating Comic Garbage I co-created the web site, which is powered by Wordpress.

• Role: Co-Creator, Co-Author, Co-Web Designer, Co-Web Developer, Writer, Illustrator.
• Years: 2011-Present

Technical Illustrator

Technical Illustration Corporation supplied Ford Motor Company with technical illustrations for over 25. While there, I worked with a team of around a dozen digital illustrators and engineers in Dearborn, Michigan and India to create Part Installation Illustrations for Ford Motor Company's Vehicle Assembly Manuals.

• Client: Technical Illustration Corporation / Ford Motor Company
• Role: Technical Illustration
• Year: Feb 2010-Nov 2011

Flash RPG Characters

Hired by Thumbs Up Studios to design and animate characters to be used in their Flash based RPG Builder. Playable characters were required to have walk cycles and several different attack animations. I also created several monsters for our heroes to beat up on.

The Human Eye

A scientific visualization of the parts of the Human Eye created in Adobe Photoshop.

CD Industry Ad

This Illustration was created using Adobe Illustrator. It was created for a project where I was tasked to replicate an advertisement found in a magazine with a different tone. I chose to replicate an advertisement about how the CD Industry is broken with a more aggresive tone.

Comic Retrace

This Illustration is a retracing of a Spider-man Comic Book Cover. It was created as a project for my Vector Graphics Technology class at Purdue University. The project required us to recreate a 4" by 4" section of a Comic Book Cover. As a long time Spider-man fan I chose to focus on that character. This was created using Macromedia Freehand.

Venetian Statue

This Illustration is based on a photo I took of a statue in Vienna. Created using Macromedia Freehand I made this as a project for my Vector Graphics Technology class at Purdue University.

Mouse Workshop

For three years I served as the project leader for the Mouse Workshop project in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program at Purdue University.

Mouse Workshop is a collection of Flash based eLearning games, aimed at special needs pre-school students enrolled in the Greater Lafayette Area Special Services Pre-School (GLASS-PS) Program.

Creation of these games involved meeting with the GLASS-PS teacher every semester to discuss the levels of mental, and physical development of GLASS-PS students and how we could best provide her with games that would encourage cause and effect learning and improve fine motor skills. Games needed to motivate children to continue playing through use of positive reinforcement rather then competition or the of scoring performance.

In 2008 we entered our project in Purdue's Idea 2 Product Competition for Social Entrepreneurship, and were awarded first place. We were invited to present our product at the 2008 National Idea 2 Product Competition in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mouse Workshop includes:
The Bucket Game
The Color Game
The Balloon Game

• Client: Greater Lafayette Area Special Services Preschool
• Role: Project Leader | Lead Designer
• Years: 2006-2009