Eyedapop!

One step closer

LorettamayDesign — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:16:36 +0000

Career development has really helped me get design self organized. I have an updated resume, I know how to make a cover letter, and my portfo a linked in account, a twitter, a blog, and soon to come, a fully done website. I plan on taking a business class online during the break

Keys

LorettamayDesign — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:33:55 +0000

This project was for Illustrative concept design. The goal was to explore different mediums and styles, but still illustrating the same thing.

LorettamayDesign — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:24:54 +0000

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.

The Small Stakes

LorettamayDesign — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:27:13 +0000

Sorry for the long absence. Finals, vacation, and the first three weeks of school have kept me busy. Now I’m back and prepared to keep posting work and featuring people along with things that inspire me like today.

I have a screen printing class this quarter so we have already completed our first assignment which was a “wood cut” illustration for a wine label. I did Black Swan, which I will post a little later after I revise it. Our next assignment is to Screen print a poster and shirt for a local SF event.

The Small Stakes is a website full of great screen print posters by a bay area artist named Jason Munn.

Go check it out for band poster inspiration!

http://www.thesmallstakes.com/

spirals

LorettamayDesign — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:30:41 +0000

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.

Update

LorettamayDesign — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:11:31 +0000

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!

Frog Prince

LorettamayDesign — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:11:01 +0000

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.

Lion

LorettamayDesign — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:51:31 +0000

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.

Pastiche

LorettamayDesign — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:47:53 +0000

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.

Marine Life Mandala

LorettamayDesign — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:35:54 +0000

For Digital Illustration

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.