3D Renderings of a garage I designed for the Church of Rancho Bernardo in 3ds max.

An Illustration of what my friend, Steve Ottney, who’s one of the drummers in my church’s praise band, would have been like as a boy.  He loves to wear orange. He even has a drum-kit that is orange.

A logo design for a house cleaning service.

A realistic illustration of a microphone in a mic stand in the spotlight.

Well I going to be starting a new project for the church utilizing my AutoCAD skills…

The stage is constantly being rearranged. Sometimes it’s only once a sermon series, which could be a couple months long, and sometimes even from week to week. They change where each musician is located and props (if ever needed) to give the worship service a new flavor in a certain period of time.

So in a recent conversation with my friend who is the production director at the church, we came up with this idea that I could take the plans of the stage area and recreate them, since the architect will most likely have an strong grip on the CAD files. It’s really not that complicated and I could probably recreate it in about an hour anyway, which is probably quicker than tracking down the files in the first place.

So basically what I’ll be doing is using the floorplan as a template and creating some blocks of things like the piano and drum set and a few other relevant items that can be used. And then dimension the spacing so it will be a lot easier to set up things such as the lighting and where the people speaking are actually supposed to stand.

First I’ll just go the plan route to see if it’s all that’s needed, then maybe down the road I may try to implement some 3d so the design committee, or whatever it is that meets can actually visualize how the stage is going to look during the worship service. And maybe down the line I’ll get fancy and put some people in the renderings as well. Well there I am getting carried away again. I guess I should just start with step one first…

A logo I designed for a friend’s company in Indianapolis.

My good friend Nick Farr went into the hospital to have open heart surgery yesterday, and while I was praying for him I thought it would be cool to Illustrate him.

After working on my design business logo, this came out of my sometimes-demented mind…lol

Here is name I came up with for my design business. markballard.com was taken so since my name is interchangeable by switching the first letters, I thought it would be a cool to make the name barkmallard. So that’s where the duck logo came from.  Above are a couple variations I came up with and I think I’m ultimately going to settle on the logo with the duck above the name.