This project was for Illustrative concept design. The goal was to explore different mediums and styles, but still illustrating the same thing.
The assignment was to come up with a poster that works “off the grid” telling people to visit San francisco. I decided to come up with a fictitious google maps site, where you could take pictures of different parts of the city and upload them and pin them to the map. This isn’t a new concept, there are iphone apps that do this, but I liked the idea of customizing the map as well, hence all the crazy colors. This poster would be an example of somebody’s map. It was a treat to make, but the file is so large. I traced over the original pdf file from muni.com. This is why the text is so small. This poster is meant to be 30 X 30 on your wall.
So this is just a little promotional piece I did for my design blog. I’m playing more with illustrator and learning new ways to do things. This week and next week is going to be utterly crazy.
I have to:
do a photoshoot
make a first amendment poster
make two earthquake preparedness posters
rework all projects done in typography class and turn in friday
design 3 face cards in a playing card deck.
pant pant pant.. hopefully i can incorporate this into something somewhere.
Sorry I haven’t been updating everyday like I should. I’ve been working on this clock vector piece for my digital illustration class and I literally have to give it my all. It’s going to be my dad’s birthday present as well so I have to finish it this weekend.
I’ll have a new feature soon!
Other than her wrist looking broken because I wasn’t paying attention to anatomy, I think it turned out ok. I need to learn to do backgrounds first! I’m not a painter, I’m a designer.. the idea of having to do layers in order is new to me. haha.
I do some funny stuff at 2 in the morning… I guess this could be a semi expressionist piece. It started out looking more like a some beast that could belong to the chinese zodiac. He had blue horns as well and curly wiskers and yellow eyebrows. I just decided to do the blue legs and keep it simple.
This is my Pastiche I made after Artist and Designer (and probably my favorite artist right now) Christopher Cox. The assignment was to choose an artist and emulate their style. Chris doesn’t have just one style. He does everything! He does illustrations, political posters, apparel design, typography… you name it, he’s probably dabbled in it. I first came across Chris in a magazine called Computer Arts. He had been featured for some of his more colorful painted looking work. I was so inspired by the paint splattered face that I made my own piece called Inspire. I made my own splatters from watercolor and scanned them in and fiddled with them, then added in my own eye and the twin peaks tower from San Francisco that I took as well. I have used that image in several pieces including my mac catalog cover.
My pastiche however is based off some of his other print work. He does a series of halftone women, or parts of women (usually eyes and lips are dominant) combined with a bunch of geometric shapes, lines, dots and colors. I like how it turned out for the most part. As my teacher said, “lose the key”. Haha.
Original image: 
Definitely go check out his stuff at Changethethought.com.
This is my Mandala Inspired after Catalina Estrada’s mandala. I saw it in one of my favorite books called Illustration Now! vol. 2. I may come back to this later and add more. It doesn’t quite feel crazy enough to me.
This was the first piece in my Advanced image manipulation class. We had to illustrate a word and do a composite. My word was “Decay”. I originally had a dying tree where the girl was and the girl was coming out of it, but it seemed too busy. The concept might be lost but I was going for “the essence” of the building is leaving because it’s dead. I used atleast 7 images in this.
Stock resources are named here
This was a project for my concept design class. The goal was to illustrate one object out of a list (I chose fish) in five different connotations in five different mediums. My first fish was a “child like fish”. My original idea was using crafts to make my fish. I thought putting together a seaquin fish would be fun. It was something I would have done when I was younger. It turned out so well that it wasn’t believable that a child did it because it was so neat.. go figure.
Next was my Harsh connotation. I thought of this really ugly brown color for a fish and decided that I should do it in watercolor and play with smudging it up. Again, it turned out so nicely, and so “cute” that it didn’t look harsh enough. According to my teacher, “In the land of cute fish, this is the harsh one, but it is still cute”
This is my whimsical fish. I tried to create motion witht eh blurry tail and fin, but it was not as successful as I would have liked. I still like the overall image except for the blue. I think it isn’t working the way it is right now. If anything this connotation is probably “quirky” because I intentionally left the other fin out because it was looking funny but now he looks like a one finned fish with big googly eyes.
And Lastly here is my corporate fish. The feed back on this one was that everyone in the class could see it, but my teacher couldn’t. He said it wasn’t visible enough. I still think I got a few good little illustrations out of it, even if it wasn’t exactly what he was looking for.
