John Alves
Designer &
Multimedia Developer
Graphic Design
Illustration
Other Projects
Graphic Design, Instructional Design, Web Work, & Print
The pieces above are primarily those I have completed on contract, while engaged in a freelance gig, or are other types of design commission/challenges.
Portfolio site developed for voice actress: Dolores Rogers, the project was great fun and I appreciate the minimal style we went with. Take a look for yourself by heading over to www.doloresrogers.com
Three of my recently designed labels for SilverCupCoffee. I love these projects, the clients are always interesting and present fun new challenges.
This was designed for a seasonal blend of coffee, first for their fall blend and then for the companies holiday blend.
A design made from a pre-existing coffee logo to both adapt and provide a marketing label for the brand.
Poster design for a local "superhero" from Seattle during his unmasking a few years back.
Contract logo design
A business card and complete logo redesign per client request.
A logo designed for Holy Parish of Gloucester MA.
Logo designed for a nonprofit "Care to Compete" for both print and web uses.
My personal favorite layout for web based training courses i designed while on contract.
The second layout and UI of several web training courses I designed while on contract.
Another UI and template format for web based training modules created on contract.
Positive and negative question response icons.
Info design graphs based on data provided by a client for implementation into a web based training course.
Animation assets I created for use in an interactive learning timeline map. It was great to have the freedom to implement this while on my Instructional Design contract.
A few assets for use in training courses, delivered with several color choices based on legal guidelines per the company I was working with.
A few more of the vector assets created for use in simulation learning modules.
Icon designs for a AR unit.
A few icons redesigned for internal training programs and updated to fit modern systems.
A game design UI and character proof of concept.
A futuristic medical logo designed on request.
A design test meant to subvert the "fire skull" motif I've seen so often in motorcycle designs.
Cover design for the short story "The Birds" as a test.
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Illustration, Concept Art, Life Drawing, and Traditional Mediums (analog art)
These illustrations have all been a part of one project or another I've worked on. There is a mix of characters designed for various games, projects, and concept pieces developed as tests or for clients.
A re-painting of an old piece to update it . Created for a card game on request. The goal was to create a Lovecraftian Deep One and use an ancient fish rather than the more typical modern deep sea fish.
Digital painting of a "Deep One Female" for the same card game created on request.
The third in a "Deep One" sequence of digital paintings for a card game created on request.
Cthulhu design created for a project titled "H.P. Lovable". This is meant for a suite of tshirts and designs soon to be on Redbubble.
Migo design created for "H.P. Lovable".
Deep One design created for "H.P. Lovable".
Ghoul design created for "H.P. Lovable".
"Dot Bots", created to assist in online training courses and delivered in separate pieces which can be articulated for animation.
Fireboy character design for a mobile game, more to come on this soon!
Digital painting created on request. "Fire In The Sky".
Frozen Throne (02- based on the Lich King 's Throne) World of Warcraft figureprint base test designs developed on request.
Frozen Throne (03 based ion the in game troll temples) World of Warcraft figureprint base test designs developed on request.
Life Drawing, medium : Pencil.
Life Drawing, medium : Charcoal.
Pillar Concept developed as a basis for a 3-D Prop.
Digital painting created on request. "Lady In Red".
Skull Icon created in watercolor for implementation into a game, developed on request.
Digital painting created on request. "Eastern Hills" meant to style match a combined oil and sumie painting effect.
Swamp Folk designs for a short story.
Treekin test designs developed for a company called "Production Road".
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Current Side Project : The Cats of Ulthar
This is a personal project I started as a gift for my wife, an illustrated picture book on the H.P. Lovecraft short story "The Cats of Ulthar". I've always loved this story and thought it would be interesting to revisit it. It's coming along fairly well and I'm on schedule to finish it in a month or so. It's been an adventure revisiting charcoal and full sequential story adaptation, I haven't had the time to work on something like this in a while.
Once completed I plan on self publishing it and maybe working on another charcoal rendered version of a Lovecraft tale, "Nyarlathotep". What I would really like to do eventually is an anthology of some of my favorite Lovecraft stories, if there is enough interest in the end product I'll have a chance work on more!
Page 1, this is actually the first time I've ever attempted a fully rendered environment with charcoal. Page Quote: "It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat".
Page 2, this one seems a bit unfinished, I may go back, add some more black in the trees as well as some highlights. Quote: "there dwelt an old cotter and his wife who delighted to trap and slay the cats of their neighbors."
Page 10, this page actually went through a few different versions, overall I'm fairly happy with the results, the wood texture seems to read pretty well. Quote: "That night the wanderers left Ulthar, and were never seen again."
Page 4, I might come back and edit this a little if I have time but as is it's not that rough. Quote: " So the boy whom the dark people called Menes smiled more often than he wept as he sate playing with his graceful kitten on the steps of an oddly painted wagon."
Page 5, Menes searching for his "lost" kitten, the levels in this were a bit off but I feel like the result was still good. Quote: "On the third morning of the wanderers’ stay in Ulthar, Menes could not find his kitten".
Page 6, this might be one of my favorite pages, the old man's beard came out just how I wanted : ). Quote: "as he sobbed aloud in the market-place certain villagers told him of the old man and his wife, and of sounds heard in the night."
Page 7, at this point I think I really started feeling more comfortable with the medium. Quote: "And when he heard these things his sobbing gave place to meditation, and finally to prayer. ".
Page 8, this page actually went through a few attempts, this layout ended up being the most interesting to me.. Quote: "He stretched out his arms toward the sun and prayed in a tongue no villager could understand".
Page 9, this was probably the most fun page to draw. Quote: "the little boy uttered his petition there seemed to form overhead the shadowy, nebulous figures of exotic things; of hybrid creatures crowned with horn-flanked discs.
Page 10, this page actually went through a few different versions, overall I'm fairly happy with the results, the wood texture seems to read pretty well. Quote: "That night the wanderers left Ulthar, and were never seen again."
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John Alves
Designer &
Multimedia Developer