Final Font

So this project started to get very frustrating. I could get everything except for the quote to work. The font shows that it is in there, but it won't show up when typed. Anyways, I have used Illustrator and Font Creator 4 to make this font. The theme is Hack and Slash. I will be providing a download later, but for now enjoy viewing my effort. This assignment definitely provided some useful experience.

Font Set Stage 1

Ok, so this assignment called for making the capital letters of a font set. I enjoyed making these, but they are not my first choice for a custom font. My first choice however could not be made into a vector based font. I decided to make a slice themed/Zorro font. I like the way it is turning out so far, but I am noticing when the font is small a lot of the detail is lost, so that is a problem I am facing right now. Overall I like the assignment so far. Next is lower case, numbers and some special characters.

Painting with a graphic tablet

     This assignment was pretty difficult for me. The requirement was to use the pen and tablet to create a piece of art in Photoshop or Illustrator. The difficulty I had is that I wanted to make something that looked good, but I am not very good at drawing. In the end I decided to do the one thing I am ok at and that is dragons. I like how the piece turned out, but there are some things I would like to change like cleaning up the lines a little bit and working on the eye. I love the way the pink of the eye turned out I think the shading and highlighting worked better than I thought it would. 

The Eye of the Beast

The Wall Card Designs

These are 4 cards for a card game called The Wall. The top left card is the back design I made for the game. The top right is my wall segment. The bottom left and right cards are my attack and reinforcement cards respectively. 

I enjoyed this assignment because I thought it was challenging. I had many great ideas most of which I was not able to capitalize on. Overall I am happy with the outcome and the way my graphics turned out. 


I used Adobe Illustrator for most of it. I did however use photoshop for my wall card to isolate it from one of my pictures and posterize it. I then brought it into Illustrator and made it a vector and added a background.

Vinyl Xbox Bling

Oh man I LOVED this assignment. I made a vinyl from scratch, design is my own and I cut the vinyl, then put everything together. It was fun! I love how it turned out.

The design is of the character I made for a side scrolling flash game and I designed this just to put on my xbox.

The design was made in Illustrator and then I used the CutStudio program to send the design to the vinyl cutter. I made 2, one of which I lined up without any help, the second I used a lightbox for.

I think I did a good job on this assignment and I also love the way it turned out. I can see myself doing more vinyl stickers in the future.

This was an assignment where I made layers in Photoshop, then animated the brushes in flash. I was trying to show the "model" getting covered in ice then his inner power destroys the ice. In Flash I did frame by frame animation and tried to mimic the motion of frost/ice and flames with the masks. I like how the assignment turned out, however I did not like the brushes for masking in Flash. If I do this in the future I think I will bring in a separate shape/brush from Photoshop to make a nicer/sharper mask.

Brushes courtesy of Obsidian Dawn

Hello People of the Internet!

3D Interior - Steampunk Spaceship Cockpit

   My name is Mark Armstrong and I am a Digital Design Student at Pierce College. I am starting up this blog to share some of my work with everyone out there surfin' the web.

   I am currently in my last quarter of my Digital Design degree and will soon be starting the long process of setting up my own company. When I finish at Pierce I would like to own my own Board and Card Game Design Studio and also offer Private Digital Design Basics classes. For now I will be letting you all take in some of my work!