cap and gown please!

after 5 long years...I did it!  the 7 days a week, 12 months a year, with only a few small breaks...countless hours of homework, and giving up nights out with friends, weekends away and a general sense of overall freedom...through working multiple jobs, starting and running my own business, and attending more weddings then I ever thought possible...

I FINISHED SCHOOL!!  

I am the proud, and accomplished owner of a second bachelor's degree, in Graphic Design. 


whew...I need to lay down :)  no more HW!!  it's a weird, but very wonderful feeling!

elective class fun

so being an art major has it's advantages...fewer papers, hardly any math equations...not many dates or names to memorize...but even in my fourth year, I still have some '100-level' electives to take...so for the last four weeks, I've been a painting fool!

I briefly used acrylic paints for a class about 2 1/2 years ago...so it's been a while, and I was feeling a bit rusty...but I think I'm starting to get the hang of/starting to enjoy this medium. We are doing mostly still-life paintings, so I thought I'd share a few of the ones I have done so far...

more stuff from Design Marketing

final drafts of a magazine ad, and a web banner- each of the four images would flash in succession...yup, I made an animation :) not sure how to post it here...or I would :)










































I cant believe next Thursday two more classes start...feel like I just started these ones...

revised Design Marketing assignment

so I made a few changes to my S&S Smoothie advertisement...

Squeek-E-Clean

for our Design Marketing class, we're creating our own brand of soap...mine? Squeek-E-Clean soap for children :)

here's an idea for what the bottle might look like...


















and...a faux advertisement for S&S Smoothie Company...

Digital Illustration...Apple from week 2

Digital Illustration...Apple from week 1

so in one of my new classes (that's right, full time student here!!) we are to create a digital drawing of an apple every week...so week one...apple!

full time student?? me??

as of today, I am officially enrolled full time at the Art Institute...I'm a little overwhelmed...two classes at once...I don't know which one to 'go' to first :p












Design Principles or Digital Illustration...I'm so excited!!!!!!!!

recent assignments

my last post made me think of this...last week for my Digital Image Manipulation 2 class, we had to create a design using a photo and the name of the person in the photo...I chose, a certain Illustrator by the name of Schulz :)

Graphic Illustration Assignments

I feel like recently I've posted everything but classwork on my blog...so here's an assignment I turned in yesterday, using both Illustrator and Photoshop...the drawing was done in Illustrator, and the effects were added in Photoshop...it was fun, but as always, I wish I had more time to work on it...maybe soon...hopefully really soon...

workin in Illustrator

my new class, Graphic Illustration is already really cool...yes, 4 days in, and I love it! Our assignment this week was to create a black and white image from a photograph using Live Trace...so here is what I came up with using a picture from Mike & Bean's wedding last July...


then I kept going...this is a picture from Becka & Tripp's rehearsal dinner...



and another from the party bus, post ceremony...

more Electronic Design

I just realized I hadn't put up any of the other work from this course...here are some other assignments from Electronic Design...definitely one of my favorite classes so far!

this was a newsprint ad:this is a magazine ad:
and a package design for a piece of direct mail:

up next, Graphic Illustration...to say I'm excited for this course is an EXTREME understatement :) :)

Electronic Design- Final Project

for our last project for Electronic Design, we had to create a 4 page website for the company we chose- it didn't have to actually work, but it was just the design...here was my assignment...which I got 100% on :)

logo

so I have a few posts in the works right now...it's been a busy couple of days!

one of the reasons for the busyness is that classes have started up again...the one I'm currently in, is Electronic Design, and in that course, we choose a client to design for...so my teacher suggested, I be my own client! so far we've done a newsletter and a newsprint ad, and this week is logo design as well as a magazine ad...

I got a little ahead of the game, and already designed a logo...penguins, good...purple, good...

Mixed Media...DONE!

and now...3 weeks off from class...which I very much need!

and the image without text

mixed media, final work in progress

the last assignment of mixed media class...our task, is to take an article from a magazine, and give it our own illustrated design....my article, is about a restaurant that serves all natural, organic, vegetarian foods, that started out with smoothies and fruit based beverages...the title of the article is Natural Nectar, and when this is all done, the pear will have a straw coming out of the side, and the background will look like wood...hopefully :p the mediums I'm using for this mixed media masterpiece? Acrylic...Watercolor Pencil...Watercolors...


it's due tonight...wish me luck!

Acrylic - final version

All done!

acrylic work in progress

our medium of choice this week? Acrylic! I've actually worked with acrylics before, and at first I struggled a bit to get back in the groove, but I think I've found it! Our assignment is to create a poster for an event, and I am making one for the VT alumni -Baltimore Chapter's annual crab feast! I've never been, but hopefully this year I can go! Maybe I can send them my poster to use ;)

I'm not sure, but I want to add more fun details, maybe a few seashells, but nothing that makes it too busy...the final is due this weekend so I still have time :)

mixed media...watercolors!

our newest medium for mixed media...watercolor! this week we had to come up with an image, that could be used for a beach or bath related advertisement...

Mixed Media - Pastel drawing

I'm already into week 3 of my new class! How does it go so quickly? Anyway...our week 2 assignment, was to create a pastel drawing, inspired by a quotation, that could be used in a calendar. The quote I chose is:

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart" -Victor Hugo