thank you cards

I finally have my computer back!! ;_; I swear I'll take better care of it!! I refuse to give it up until after 6-7 years of use D:<

anyways....here's a thank you card I'm working on to give to my relatives
the concept is kind of....hmmm I don't even think I get it haha but I'll do my best to explain

so I've always thought that every amazing artist has 'magic hands'. I think drawing and painting amazing things with simply paint, brushes, and paper...basically making something out of nothing and imagining things that aren't there is just simply magic. So that's where the magic hands come from!

On the cover, I have a plant on which these magic hands are growing and is being watered by some....magical water (aka my family supporting me in pursuing my dreams) haha (this is beginning to sound ridiculous haha).

Inside, I've cut off two of the magic hands and stuck them on my own and it inspires me to paint and be creative.
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finally!! I can post pictures!! Firefox kept on giving me error messages on blogger whenever I tried to put up a picture. But here it is! OMG...I tried to give it a little brush texture by scanning hi-res images of sponge blots and dry brush things I made with ink on water color paper. It took FOREVER to scan it at 2400 dpi as a .TIF file. I gave up and tried to just scan it at 1600 dpi as a .JPEG--didn't take as long as the tif did but good god..it took forever to just open the file on photoshop, took forever to just save it as a png, and took forever just to place it on adobe illustrator. I am never doing that again! There is too much waiting involved with this process I have no idea how my instructor goes about doing his illustrations that way @_@. My computer kept on freezing in the middle of saving/loading/moving--ick just terrible!!

anyways--the card turned out great!! :) i printed out both sides on ultra premium presentation matte paper and stuck them together--super thick card but it looks legit!! I just wish I put more space in there to write

September 4, 2012 4:11AM

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

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.

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!

vegetarian cooking class

I took a vegetarian cooking class by Zel and Reuben Allen from Vegetarians in Paradise a few days ago. One of the items that I really liked on the menu was the peachy coconut soup! It's a cold soup that is a bit sweet but not the kind of sweet that wears your taste buds out and makes you not want to eat it again! :) so here it is!!

I really wanna get more into cooking, particularly in the vegan and vegetarian area. I really hope that in doing that, my stomach will allow me to have more guilty pleasures like this wonderful cold soup!!

Look forward to more cooking pics and such!! I also took a bookmaking class so--going to post that up here soon too!