Art Portfolio
Kade Baldwin is a digital artist and an up and coming animator.
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Kade practices in both traditional and digital art, focusing on digital. Kade works with character design, background design, graphic design, animation. In terms of traditional mediums, Kade works with: graphite, acrylic, copic marker, and watercolour.
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The following are my digital art portfolio projects from semester one
The Future is Both
Kade Baldwin
Digital Art
2023
The world is an underground society/ in a cavern. The city functions based on bioluminescent light and the creatures that live there have wings. The only way out is to fly and when the creatures die they turn into spirit butterflies that still live within the ecosystem. The cavern's ceiling is held up by 15 large stone pillars that are relics of the human world that is long gone. The earth has long since taken over the old world and begun again.
Kade Baldwin
Digital Art
2023
The world is an underground society/ in a cavern. The city functions based on bioluminescent light and the creatures that live there have wings. The only way out is to fly and when the creatures die they turn into spirit butterflies that still live within the ecosystem. The cavern's ceiling is held up by 15 large stone pillars that are relics of the human world that is long gone. The earth has long since taken over the old world and begun again.
American Gothic Redesign
Kade Baldwin
Digital Art
2023
The original piece is a father and a daughter mourning a mother supposedly and the father has a pitchfork, “that sounds like the little mermaid to me”. I decided to incorporate the father as King Triton with a trident instead of a pitchfork, then the daughter is Ariel and both of them are blank faced in mourning. I kept the gothic window but changed the house to the under the sea castle from the movie. I restarted with the original version as my base for the new one. I started by sketching and outlining the design in procreate which is my home medium. Then I transitioned it into Illustrator and image traced it. I went through and cleaned up some disconnected lines and then got to colouring. I used the live paint bucket and played around with colours before colouring everything in. I used the shape tool to fix sections that couldn't be filled in with the paint bucket and because the brush tool doesn't translate to image trace well.
Kade Baldwin
Digital Art
2023
The original piece is a father and a daughter mourning a mother supposedly and the father has a pitchfork, “that sounds like the little mermaid to me”. I decided to incorporate the father as King Triton with a trident instead of a pitchfork, then the daughter is Ariel and both of them are blank faced in mourning. I kept the gothic window but changed the house to the under the sea castle from the movie. I restarted with the original version as my base for the new one. I started by sketching and outlining the design in procreate which is my home medium. Then I transitioned it into Illustrator and image traced it. I went through and cleaned up some disconnected lines and then got to colouring. I used the live paint bucket and played around with colours before colouring everything in. I used the shape tool to fix sections that couldn't be filled in with the paint bucket and because the brush tool doesn't translate to image trace well.
The Cities Secret Garden
Kade Baldwin
Digital Art
2023
So in the past year I have not been able to travel much, which is where I find the most inspiring places, so I decided to do my soundwalk through a garden my family found overseas a while ago. I don't have pictures but I do have sketches and a decent mental map. The garden was hidden within the city. The only sign that it was actually something was the large wooden door tucked in a sort of ally way. It was a complete change from the street, green and completely overgrown. It was rather peaceful and the water was what stood out to me the most. In light of this I added many water, wind and music sounds to the track. I emphasised the separation by isolating the traffic noise and the garden noise from each other through the door. I wanted to do audio that kind of explained the noises and items as the viewer walks so I recorded my friend, voice actor Jackson Zappa, reading a script I wrote over top of the music and nature elements.
Kade Baldwin
Digital Art
2023
So in the past year I have not been able to travel much, which is where I find the most inspiring places, so I decided to do my soundwalk through a garden my family found overseas a while ago. I don't have pictures but I do have sketches and a decent mental map. The garden was hidden within the city. The only sign that it was actually something was the large wooden door tucked in a sort of ally way. It was a complete change from the street, green and completely overgrown. It was rather peaceful and the water was what stood out to me the most. In light of this I added many water, wind and music sounds to the track. I emphasised the separation by isolating the traffic noise and the garden noise from each other through the door. I wanted to do audio that kind of explained the noises and items as the viewer walks so I recorded my friend, voice actor Jackson Zappa, reading a script I wrote over top of the music and nature elements.
Sonik the Porcupine
Kade Baldwin
Digital Art
2023
So I chose Sonic the Hedgehog 2 because it was fast paced and I thought it would be the easiest to get the whole friend group in on. Each main character is identified by the shirt colour and when one of them appears without the shirt colour it means they are another character. I figured that it would be low cost and easy for the audience to keep up with in a blink. I ended up not doing the voice overs in favour of music and video editing ease and quality. I had to compromise a whole lot on the shots because well… I don't have a rocket ship, tornado or an up high cityscape since there are very few buildings on campus that have balconies. Working with a team was a lot of fun and it made filming and editing enjoyable to do. I think if I could do it again I would just give myself more time so that I could organise better lighting situations (and it actually working with peoples schedules. I know that a few videos just were not the right environment that I wanted but it was too late to re-shoot. Overall I am pretty happy with the result though.
Kade Baldwin
Digital Art
2023
So I chose Sonic the Hedgehog 2 because it was fast paced and I thought it would be the easiest to get the whole friend group in on. Each main character is identified by the shirt colour and when one of them appears without the shirt colour it means they are another character. I figured that it would be low cost and easy for the audience to keep up with in a blink. I ended up not doing the voice overs in favour of music and video editing ease and quality. I had to compromise a whole lot on the shots because well… I don't have a rocket ship, tornado or an up high cityscape since there are very few buildings on campus that have balconies. Working with a team was a lot of fun and it made filming and editing enjoyable to do. I think if I could do it again I would just give myself more time so that I could organise better lighting situations (and it actually working with peoples schedules. I know that a few videos just were not the right environment that I wanted but it was too late to re-shoot. Overall I am pretty happy with the result though.
The Clowns
Kade Baldwin
Digital Art
2023
So, it all started with two clown designs..
This project was already in the brainworks and I decided to use the project my partner, my roommate, and I had in the worldbuilding sense, to found this animation. It's a whole world based off of this group/ different races of clowns and then the one “main character” Candy(the one that started it all). The animation is done frame by frame in procreate and is just over 450 frames. It serves as a little intro to the story with the beginning of it being candy trying to sneak out, the middle being the “The Clowns” dropping down and then the end and wrap up being the exits and interview. It was a very fun project simply because the world is something I am so invested in and one I am doing with others. I included my partner and roommates' original designs at the end in a line up as well as my own. The music was just from pixabay and the whole thing was exported through premiere pro.
Kade Baldwin
Digital Art
2023
So, it all started with two clown designs..
This project was already in the brainworks and I decided to use the project my partner, my roommate, and I had in the worldbuilding sense, to found this animation. It's a whole world based off of this group/ different races of clowns and then the one “main character” Candy(the one that started it all). The animation is done frame by frame in procreate and is just over 450 frames. It serves as a little intro to the story with the beginning of it being candy trying to sneak out, the middle being the “The Clowns” dropping down and then the end and wrap up being the exits and interview. It was a very fun project simply because the world is something I am so invested in and one I am doing with others. I included my partner and roommates' original designs at the end in a line up as well as my own. The music was just from pixabay and the whole thing was exported through premiere pro.