Mydwynter Studios

Painting: Henna Pottery

bran — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 03:51:22 +0000

I have the great fortune to be working jointly with Dancing Pig Pottery on a line of pottery. They throw the pots, and I slip-trail and paint them with henna designs. It’s immensely fun to get into the pottery studio on a regular basis and be inspired by a kind of art I don’t get to be a part of every day.

Protected: Dancing Pig

bran — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:57:12 +0000

Decapitated Birthday Card

bran — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:53:07 +0000

Decapitated Head Birthday Card
February, 2012
Photoshop
©2012 Bran Cedio

Advertisement Design: Dancing Pig Pottery

bran — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:00:14 +0000

Quirky, creative Dancing Pig Pottery asked me to create for them a 1/4 page, greyscale advert for this year’s Pennsic War Merchant Guide. I had a lot of fun, using the black-and-white restriction to inform a manga-esque advertisement design.

Prophecy of Ydrys Vega: The Origin Tree

bran — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:25:16 +0000

I have an ongoing project up at ydrysvega.com—it’s a lot of peripheral artwork, stories, poetry, and songs related to my upcoming illustrated novel entitled, “The Prophecy of Ydrys Vega”. One of the largest pieces so far accompanies an origin story for the kingdom of Cymria. I’m integrating modern art style with a lot of Celtic design, which matches the mix of modern and historic I’m combining in the text.

So below, we have the Goddess and God combining to create the first tree. “The Origin Tree.”

Logo Design: Knit One Spin Too

bran — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:54:38 +0000

This summer, I created a logo for the new company Knit One Spin Too, which offers tips and classes and conventions for spinning, knitting, and other fibre-arts. They wanted a logo design which was fluid, calligraphic, and professional-but-warm. It also needed to accept various colour schemes depending on the situation in which it was used.

I also created a seal-style logo for their first major event, a teaching convention called Spin U.

The sheep and colour scheme are derived from the Knit One Spin Too website, which has a clean, comfortable, design aesthetic. The development of a “yarn sheep” was, truth be told, one of the most enjoyable parts of the entire project.

Project: Sand and Steam logo design

bran — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:41:49 +0000

This fun project came to me from Sand and Steam Productions. They wanted a logo to use as a header for their website and on new business cards which conveyed the conflicting nature of sand and steam—opposed, antithetical, paired but different.

First we worked up a plain black and white logo design, suitable for high-contrast areas.

Then we dove straight into the full-colour header design. We ended up with a dirty, grungy header with the logo seeming to glow out from the grime, like a beacon in the darkness.

We also created a short-form icon to be used for things like the site’s favicon and twitter avatar.

And then it was time for business cards.

We created full-bleed, double-sided cards with a variation of the logo specifically customised for the cards.

Overall, this was a terrifically fun project. I particularly enjoyed being able to turn the grunge level up to eleven; it was a freeing contrast to the clean and crisp web designs I so often work on. My thanks to Tracy at Sand and Steam Productions for the opportunity.

Gabriel and Rhys (Victorian Character Portrait)

bran — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:09:58 +0000

This is a piece done as a period photograph of two fictional characters in an upcoming novel. The final submission was in the same sepia tone as extant Victorian photos.

If you would like to commission a portrait of characters to which you own the rights—whether from your book, your story, or your role-playing game—please contact me here. I’d love to work with you.

Valentine Heart Card (sketch)

bran — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:39:05 +0000

Done for a Valentine’s Day card, February 2012.

Sherlock Holmes with Pipe Smoke

bran — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:14:38 +0000

Sherlock Holmes with Pipe Smoke

This is a piece I did both to try out Manga Studio for the first time and to make a piece which could be incorporated into a background for a twitter page. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I love Photoshop, but the experience of inking a comic or drawing in Manga Studio is so much more pleasant that I can’t imagine I’ll want to go back to inking in Photoshop.