Ocean Science final poster

I am so going to hate myself for choosing to do this -_-

the assignment is to make a poster for the Aquarium of the Pacific--my tagline is "don't let pollution consume you"--pun 100% intended in my drawing haha


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using a different approach to creating the shapes. i'm trying out Paul Roger's (my instructor) method of using the pen tool to make a line drawing...I usually just go straight to having the fill turned on with the color and everything...sooo let's see how this pans out--about 75% done with the line stuff

June 27, 2012 5:05 am

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got past the boring part and now just adding shadow and light to make it pop more

June 27, 2012 10:36 pm

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not much different than the last preview but here it is, completed

 tried to cram in my slogan thing there but there just isn't any room! :(
07/29/12

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.

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

treehouse designs & portraiture

sorry for the lack of updates :P but here's some new work from this summer term

big update

 these are two of the ideas I had for the book cover of memoirs of a geisha but they didn't follow the rules that my instructor put down
anyhow, i had fun drawing these two :)

 this is just a study done in drawing for illustration-hi tech Pilot pens are the best for this type of line work (because they skip)

 another illustration for the drawing for illustration class
i worked on this for a long time and was beginning to hate it
-_- ahh i dunno maybe its the terrible job i did on the fence that bothers me and the obvious mess up i made in the left corner- i black massed this small gate thing hoping to make it a nice silhouette but it was awful so i put gesso over is -_- ahh worst mistake ever...
i cropped it down to maybe 70% of the actual picture
i liked this idea but ugh i need to work on my execution...

haha my instructor actually liked this one
and my mom didn't like it much so i thought i would get a bad crit out of this @_@ i was completely wrong...

anyhow, this was inspired by a creepy moment during the time i was taking a short nap

so i was knocked out and was napping during the daytime-i was planning to sleep for maybe just 30 minutes--so i enter rem sleep where your body is completely relaxed and kind of...paralyzed? So i'm not sure that i woke up during this time or if it was a dream but i couldn't move my body. on the very top of my head, someone was making a circle with finger repeatedly. It was almost as if my head was shaved completely and i could hear the sound of the fingernail dragging on top of my head except it was amplified and was the only thing i could hear. at that moment i wasn't scared at all...in fact whenever i have nightmares, i'm sometimes very calm when something terrible is happening. it's only when i wake up that it creeps the hell out of me.