Jean not being all that common of a name, people always seem hard of hearing when I introduce myself. I like to clarify by saying, "Yes. Jean. Like the pants", which always clears things right up. As more and more introductions were made, "Pants" began to stick.
ABOUT JEAN
A Quick Blerp
I hail from a small town 20min east of Cleveland, OH and have been formally studying graphics since 2002. I started out at my high school's Tech Prep program earning a list of honors and awards from BPA. After a brief stint at a community college in OH, I enrolled at Valencia Community College in the spring of 2007. It is here I am currently a student and set to graduate come winter 2009.
About the only thing more valuable than an education, is experience. While still a student, I was a live caricature artist at Universal Studios, Orlando for four years. I've since moved on into more freelance work. While freelancing, I worked at SignDepot as a large-scale print specialist before taking an internship with G&G Advertising(now Echo Graphics). After completing the internship, I worked with a start-up graphics company called Sunny Design as their Interactive Specialist.
More recently, I've took on my own business endeavors. I was blessed enough to be surrounded by incredibly talented and inspiring digital media enthusists of which I worked with to start our own digital media company. Although I rarely get the chance to work with them now, the company is now known as Taste Media, LLC with offices in downtown Orlando. They still contribute to the graphics industry regularly.
As of now, I have the honor and pleasure of working on contract with a fantastic digital-media company called Digitec Interactive as a HTML, CSS programmer. We just wrapped up a project with Florida Virtual Schools.
An Interactive Artist
To be honest, I never saw myself as a "programmer". It seemed so dry and uneventful. And though I'm no expert, I have come to the very important discory that programming, can not only enhance your creative outlets, but breathe life into ideas that otherwise would've just stayed static. And what good is a ball that doesn't bounce?
With this new found appreciation of all things programmed, I anxiously dive into the vast realm of possibilities behind all those braces and brackets. One can expect, however, my right-brain will be an emence part of the way I work. After all, you can't kill the artist. Only enhance him.
I Drum
It's been twelve years now and I still love playing the drums. If you follow music, my background is more rudimental than anything. In fact, I participated in DCI and toured for a few summers up and down the east coast. I can be found playing a few late night gigs at bars around Orlando when I can swing them, but mostly I get my kicks teaching private lessons.
In 2008, a friend and I ran a small custom drum business that never really got all that far, but did allow me to do some design work, gain experience, and most importantly, build custom drums. This drum is the only one I really got to build, but she's a beauty and was a blast painting!