Spring 2026 STA Roster Poster: Layout and Texturing

This past week has been all about layout and texturing. After making some graffiti assets which could be used as filler content and title work, I began to work on the formation of the STA frames.

What I quickly realized is how cluttered the image looked with the brick wall background, so instead, I switched back to the plain grey concrete wall in order to make names more readable and for texturing to be just a little bit more efficient.

After making more space for future STA’s, I will work on the department names and how to present them as part of the artwork as a whole.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2025/11/13/55292/

Spring 2026 Roster Poster: Sprites!

This week, I worked on adding non-tag graffiti elements. I did a few fuller, bubble style graffitis as well as some sprites and small characters. For many of these, I found inspiration in my hometown of Medellin, which is absolutely full of graffiti. I found some of these characters on the areas located on the map below!

All of these are in downtown Medellin: the bottom circle near the government, the middle one near the famous Plaza Botero, and the top one in the neighborhood surrounding the University of Antioquia.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2025/11/06/55258/

-Spring 2026 Roster Poster Changes-

This week, I went through and started making a new iteration of the Spring 2026 Roster Poster, with a different direction this time. This time around, I aimed at a more realistic, brick wall environment that seemed more textured and like a real wall with graffiti on it, instead of just textures.

This has allowed me to make the elements within the design much more grounded to the its environment, as seen especially on the title and the base for the STA portrait frames in black.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2025/10/30/55242/

-Continuing Spring 2026 STA Roster Poster-

This past week I was able to make significant progress on the style of the Roster Poster, and am now experimenting with how do include various graffiti assets alongside the STA frames.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2025/10/23/55235/

October Projects: COERLL and Spring 2026 Roster Poster

These past few weeks with the help of Shanda I worked on a book cover for COERLL, which involved making a text logo and map graphic. using mainly Illustrator for this project, I was able to figure out many more small and useful tips for my workflow, especially when it comes to working with vectors and customizing fonts.

-COERLL Book Cover-

-Spring 2026 Roster Poster-

At the same time, I have been working on the Spring 2026 Roster Poster, and have been experimenting with various styles for a main title graphic:

So far, I have chose to continue with concept #1, but I will also try and see how concept #2 could work out. This is also my first time using a Wacom tablet, so I am slowly learning many new things that you can do in photoshop which I hadn’t known previously. Furthermore, this project has also forced me to get back into my illustrative mindset, which I haven’t tapped into in years. (I stopped drawing in like middle school or earlier)

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2025/10/16/blog-review-oct-17/

This week I worked on some concepts for the title of the Spring 2026 STA Roster Poster. Im trying to go for a more “quick tag” look on the title, however I’m not so sure yet on the readability aspect of it. I will probably also try a few bubbly looking ones to see how they read: