new orleans bourbon street

sketch for the new orleans street scene (the last gdea assignment).
honestly, I was a little worried because I didn't feel like I could do enough research using books and the internet for Bourbon Street in the 1950s--material is sparse!! D:< it was pretty tough finding images to be inspired by...

so here's a little sneak peek at the colorized version--still need to put in the type and adjust some of the colors..I was working on it till six this morning and it just was not really working for me x_x--still trying to get the hang of using a limited color palettes...
I am trying my hardest not to render and put texture and shadows D:<
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ack i forgot to update with a full pic of it!! but here is the finished product! i really wanted to add more detail to it--shadows and textures but it would be a little too overwhelming...but i really want to redo this piece in the style i wanted to do it in!

for the final week, i made some beignets and made a little display in front of my boards---not really the way i wanted it to look like :< but ugh i was running low on sleep! i'll do it again just to put on my blog

08/20/12 12:46 am

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i watched paranorman a second time today! still love it just as much :) huhuhu i am planning to do some fanart and just print out zombie posters and put them in my room just for fun! :) let's make this break an awesome one! >:D

cafe du monde menu

wip wip wip still need to 'render' the coffee cup, bowl, and tea kettle
for now...can't decide if green just makes me feel like vomiting/not eating food or an interesting color choice...I was trying to emulate Donald Brun's style. He was a Swiss illustrator who did a lot of ads for Swiss consumer products. I think this is going somewhere else haha-not in a good way though D:..just not satisfied...

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Rendered everything out...and so this is my first pass on the menu! :) now to figure out how to make my printer print the color I want D:<

June 26, 2012 5:08 p.m.

Cat Woman starring Lilly Christine

Hi! Quick update--just finished putting in the font--all done by me. :)

I changed her name to Lilly Christy because it roles off the tongue better..at least I think.
anyhoo will update soon.

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7:49 p.m. 06/22/12

 first pass for color--which I know I will have to change because they had a completely different color scheme for that time period... bit I'm trying to do it in David Brum's/ Brun's style :) ughh not having a tablet is a little nerve racking but at least I'll get it back this tuesday so yay!

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rendering lilly now...have to re-do the font I think...this poster all over is too 'pleasant' for a new orleans strip joint ~_~ darnit!

June 26, 2012,  2:36 am

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last update---i made a big mistake and put cat woman instead of cat girl *facetopalm* but i wanna re-do it to be a little more raunchy-er blahh

August 1, 2012, 10:00pm

cabaret, coffee, and beignets

Cafe du Monde menu designs--still needs a few more ideas...

Lilly Christine as the "Cat Woman" of New Orleans

poster designs for Lilly Christy as the Cat Woman performing at the Funky Butt club

menu and cabaret/burlesque poster designs for Graphic Design for Entertainment Arts.
still figuring out the font. But man oh man I am so tempted to bake some real beignets for the final!

Phantom 309 wip

colorizing the Phantom 309 pic in my previous post ;_; omg i'm SOOOOO FREAKING SLOW--that corner took more time than I anticipated (*cough 3 or 4 hours cough*)

I feel a little foolish for putting a lot on my plate especially because I now have a big side project with a looming deadline =_= owalsjfl;asjflkj
but anyhoo--I hope I can use this in my portfolio (minus the angry octopus) once I finish-
See you in t-20 hours!
 (June 21, 2012 2:17 AM)

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 Hi guys! here's another update-- I'll just continue on the same post whenever I do wips so that it's more organized :D 

anyhow...around 5:30am, my tablet totally gave out-I tried to keep it plugged into the tablet with rubber bands-I was wiggling the cord too much in there and broke the port ;_; it's kind of unfortunate that this humongo tablet won't work just because of that really small port thingy. I'm hoping some of the people in the student store/ wacom customer service could provide me with some repair information.

but anyways...crappy wacom 1 tablet to the rescue! with absolutely no pressure sensitivity! That proved to be minimally detrimental though--still (sort of) finished it

so--down to business: here's the first pass. Honestly everything in the middle ground and background is too vibrant and the hierarchy between values isn't as obvious as my value break up. I'm getting too distracted by everything in the foreground. The food on the counter is beginning to look like it's a part of the floor too @_@. Dem lemons in the iced tea are so yellow, it's almost as if they were picked off a radioactive lemon tree. So those are some things on my list to fix.  

As for additions, I need to add the 'push' sticker on the door, the poster on the side of the entrance, texture to the floor, and then add the 'today's special' thing in the bottom right corner of the foreground.

But I really did want green in the foreground, yellow orange in the middle ground, and a blue violet for the background.

(June 21, 2012 5:16pm) 

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first real pass with all the whistles and bells--i'm so sick of looking at this =_=

June 25, 2011 2:15pm

Phantom 309

Hi guys! It's been a while!!

so I was a little reluctant to keep posting here because all of my wip stuff is on tumblr but I am going to push myself to update this blog now instead of tumblr!!

yeahhh
so this is for graphic design for entertainment class
we were supposed to design a layout illustrating one of the scenes from the song "Phantom 309" by Red Sovine.
This is just the value breakup for my layout. I know there's a few things that I have to changeo n the left side because the values are beginning to spill into one another with the food on the counter (haha...no pun intended)--but I just want to hear what my instructor has to say before doing anything

I was influenced by Lou Romano's style when working on this piece. He worked on the Powerpuff Girls, The Incredibles, Monster's Inc. and so much more!! I also found out he did a bit of voice acting in the films he designed for. That is just the icing on the cake for me!! I totally wanna do that too!!
Anyhow-- I am most definitely a fan or his work and I hope I can do him justice when I finish this.