Stop and start again

I've decided to close this blog and start a new one based on art and fashion.
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It's the end of the world...and I'm okay.

This semester I created alot of work that I am really  proud of! I wasn't much of a designer when I started this program and all I wanted to do is draw! But, I'm slowly getting into design and learning more about the art of graphic design. Here's some of my projects for Designing for Advertising:

Simple B&W Recycle ad.

Simple B&W Tutor newspaper ad

Yellow Pages Competition: Full Page ad.

 I hated this project because I couldn't think of anything for it! It had to be really simple and full of information. I looked at past winners and really, they all are pretty slapped together. I mean some stuff were obviously crooked! And then there was a ton of other errors I that I always fret over. This year some classmates won 2nd place. It was a decent design but no-where as good as this guy I know in my program. He is amazing and actually sent in 2 ads. But like I said they wanted really simple and easy. But look at got honorable mention! T__T I mean really? The first person didn't even care to crop the leaf correctly! 

Bleh, don't mind me, I just hated the project from the beginning. Moving on,

National Ad

I had a sweet idea for this ad, which was to sell something to a different target market. I choose to sell a sewing machine to men. I know a few dudes who sew but obviously it's more of a "woman's product". The best thing about this sewing machine is that it does all the work! They just have to hold things in place!

My School is doing a school wide project for the first ever epic story, "Gilgamesh".  Since we aren't really doing thing yet we had to make some teaser posters for the upcoming semester. We had all this information that wasn't really necessary and because it is a TEASER poster, I just put in things that could grab attention and make you curious about it.  I have been looking at alot of tutorials and been learning alot of new tricks to put in my work.

The final revisions for the Swan Lake project.

For my Illustration class:

I took my teacher's advice and changed the colors on both "Hardcore" and "Space Girl". It makes the figures stand out alot more.  I also filled in the letters for the logo. These are the final revisions.

For Media Design:

I had to make a flash website! What a pain! I got everything to work but the INTRO page! And it's all because I missed a stop! Booo! Now if I can get this to work online I'll be able to fix this poor blog up!

I am also proud of my glowing letters.

This summer I have alot of projects to work on, including re-creating some book covers and doing more Pulp Girls. Also, my first project  I will be doing some illustrations for one of my favorite songs by the National!

The National have some very visual lyrics, if that make sense!

I will leave you with this sweet magnet my brother picked up for me,

The summer brings amazing possibilities! 

Unless the end of the world happens.

Quick update!

Last week of school! I am super busy and have no time, but I wanted to share my illustrations for my Pulp girl series. I am planning on doing more, but these three are the first I've ever done in this style and I am quite pleased on how they came out!

I redid, "This is hardcore" and look how well it came out!

I am confident that the rest of my projects will turn out just as nice, so I am not worried! (Just as long as everything is done ontime!)

Next week, I'll do a round-up of my favorite designs of the semester!

Germ Free.

Just a quick preview of the work I am currently doing. Should be done by the end of the week!

A Cropped Version of my 50ft woman! It's looking pretty good!

Logos I'm making for my pin-up site.

School ends next week and I am doing way too much at once! So many projects to do!

Other news,Last week, one my Idols Poly Styrene of the X-Ray Spex died,from her battle with cancer. The X-ray spex was one of the reasons why I got into punk rock and started to listen to alot of female fronted bands and learnt about the Riot girrl movement.  

The X-Ray Spex only really released one album and it was "Germfree Adolescents".  A witty snarky send off to commercialism, Identity issues and social standards.

"Oh Bondage! Up Yours!" became an athem for the future riot grrl movement and locked Poly's legacy in place. 

We will miss you Poly!

The Fury in your head.

One of my favorite bands Foals, are coming to the Beachland Ballroom on the 29th!

Because I love them so much I made two posters for the upcoming show.

You know I do love the grid and the Swiss Design. I could make a billions of things! It's amazing. I still need to tighten some stuff though.

I have been doing a lot of research and tutorials and this is a product of some skills I've learned. Check out http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/ for great tutorials!

I just wanted to share some of the work I've been doing. School is ending! So happy!

Took a break.

So after abit of a break from the internet, I am back. Hopefully to start posting more and getting my freelancing work on the road. I got a lot of ideas and projects I need to work on. My goal for this year is to have a solid portfolio, around 20 pieces. I've been doing alot of talking to people and I need to start doing a lot than what I am.  Been letting way too many other things get in the way of what's important. Anyho, here is some of the work that I've been doing for class!

I did some Swan Lake posters for my Ad class. This is the Poster and the bottom ones are the front and back of the program.

And B&W

This is my best work yet! I have a bunch of other things I am coming up with and as long as I can sketch it out, I can come up with something.

Speaking of sketches, I have a bunch I need to scan and share. I'll be doing that tomorrow!

I'll end this with the "Comic of the week!"

            

Y, the last man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra.  The story about the only man (and his monkey) to survive a "plague" that killed off everything with a "Y" Chromosome.

I read "Y" a few years back, but never really got through the last book of the series, "Why and Wherefores". And that's because something happened in it that pissed me off and made me stop reading. So now that I'm not being a baby, I'm re-reading it all the way through. 

I'm going to be doing "Comic of the week" for awhile. I am behind on my reading!

This blog will also look kinda plain for a bit. I'm going to use my own layout and I hope I don't bonk it up. :|

Welcome to 2011! The sky is falling!

With a new year comes some changes.

As far as this blog goes,I am going to be updating weekly, in hopes of helping my writing. I'm starting on scripts and re-writing alot of  old stories I didn't finish.I have alot I need to do when it comes to my career and I need to start ASAP. This is my last year at school (maybe) and I need to step up my game! I'm also going to not take on too much at once. I did that last semester and got my bum handed to me.

Here's some of my best work I did for last semester:

This was done for an assigment in Graphic Drawing. Had to combine a bunch of pictures. I used my favorite band Joy Division.

For Imaging and Design, We made ads for Pierre's Ice cream. This is how mines came out. 

This is going to be the new layout for this blog, once I fix it up. 

Another one for Imaging and Design. We made a CD cover for our annual folktales CD.

Illustration Design done for GD.

For I&D, we had to combine two movie posters. I choose to do "Control" and "Ghost World". It came out pretty well, minus the font.  

One of the things I learned about Photoshop and Illustrator is to keep doing things over and over. They are both crazy software and will piss you off numerous of times, but the more you use it,the more you'll get use to it's evil trickery and can stop it from really messing up your work. 

Also save! I think I have 47 copies of all these projects. I learned the hard way about the this.

This year is going to bring big changes in my life. I am more focused and determined to do alot of new work this year and to give myself a chance to really do what I love. I am also going to move in the summer, which means my own space and a place to able to concentrate on my work and other things. I currently live in such disarray I can't think straight! And I want a place I can decorate and make my own! :3

Plans I have for the upcoming year:

-Start the Un-Adventures of Jay and Nikki as a weekly comic.

-Move.

-Work on other stories.

-Do more design work.

-Spend more time reading.

-Bike more

-Take more chances.

-Do everything thing I can to more in the right direction.

Besides this blog I am also going to be doing the daily sketch project, and I may start a 365 project again but doing something different with it. I'm also starting a "What I wore today blog" on tumblr. Which is a place to show my daily outfits.  http://fashionformutants.tumblr.com/  Nothing on there yet because I haven't gotten any good outfits together. Next week hopefully.

I am going to make this an productive year.

This year will bring exciting events!