Skin 'em alive!

So I got a new job! About time man and it's just not any job either, it's working at Whole Foods. I got hired on the spot too! My bright and winning personality must've won them over. I'm extremely excited about this job because if it's up to me, this will be my last retail/cashier job. I'll work at Whole Foods until I can work full time as an illustrator/graphic designer. Until then, WF should keep me more than afloat esp if I work full time. I take this as a sign of moving forward and getting things in gear. I needed this job and I am so greatful!

Also,unemployment and being broke isn't my kind of thing.

This also means I can move by the end of the fall yay!

I haven't done any drawings in awhile, mainly just working on projects for school and they are driving me crazy. I am glad this semester is over! Ugh. Here are some sketches from the sketchbook:

I need to start drawing alot more guns and combat scenes if I am trying to do an action comic. I use to draw them all the time. I wonder why I got lazy and stopped?  Oh yeah that lazy part. I am glad I grew out of that.

                                           

I did this for Rendering Techinques. I know,I didn't use alot of the photoshop tricks on it but really, all the other versions of this looked tacky and really over done. I don't know, I am taking baby steps with this whole color with photoshop thing. I know if I want to learn I need to get out of the comfort zone, but really I thought the others looked pretty crappy. Plus I like flat color I think I work well with it. 

Since I am done with school, I will start to work on "The Unadventures of Jay and Nikki". I haven't done anything with comics since I started school, so the first thing I need to do is work on this comic. I am not expecting it to be any good off the bat. The jokes will be corny and the drawings will be different alot of the time because this is what I'll be using to help develop my work and start learning my basis.

Today was the last day of class for the semester. I did pretty well even though I felt rushed and disorganized for much of the spring. 

I am really into Typography now. Which is strange because I never really care too much about it, but now after taking this class I think I will try to do more work with it. Funny though, I took typography at Columbia and hated it. Guess it was probably just the way it was taught.

Here are some of my final posters.

For my final project I had to make a brochure to go along with the first poster:

For my first time ever using Indesign I think I did pretty well. I'll try to keep it up with typo during the summer.

The National's new album is pretty sweet! I wish they'd tour and stop by cleveland. I'd love to see them in person! I love all the songs on the album but my two favs are currently, Anyone's ghost:

And Bloodbuzz Ohio: