Hi there!
I have not updated in a million years because of reasons.
Namely, I have a new blog.
So there will be new art there.
Huzzah!
A crop of a 3 hour project for one of my classes. Design a mural for the computer room wall.
Want this adorable octopus design on a super-soft t-shirt? It’s absolutely available! Click here to buy my shirt design, for only $15! All the profits go to helping me get through school, and put food on my table, so not only do you get a shirt, but also my eternal gratitude! Unfortunately they’re only available in ladie’s sizes at this time, but if I hear enough from the guy crowd, it could be available in the future!
Even if you can’t buy, I’d appreciate it if you’d click reblog so this can see as many people as possible! I need to sell 24 by April 4th in order for the sale to go through (it’s a kickstarter-type site.)
Thanks, everyone! :) :)
My Croquet Ball Poster won third prize and will be auctioned for charity! (And I’ll get a small stipend from the art director+I believe tickets to the event!)
Poster for Milwaukee’s Irish Fest…
…not my favorite project, but you work with what you get.
This design was for my pattern design and licensing class. We were asked by Kohl’s to submit a design for a reusable shopping bag, and the winner gets $1500.
I got into the final six and will be going to the Kohl’s headquarters to present my design to the marketing team! :O
I call it “Peacock Floral.” Their logo will go in the top left corner.
And another octopus design, for another “contest” in my illustration department.
Because that last one didn’t win, and who’s counting?
This is for a charity ball benefiting Penfield Children’s Center. The top 5 posters will be auctioned off (for thousands of dollars) to benefit PCC, and the designers will get to attend the ball and win a nominal prize from the design company who is art directing us.
However, the real value of the assignment is that we actually get art direction from Cramer-Krasselt, a prestigious independent design company originally based in Milwaukee (which is where I go to school).
Keeping my fingers crossed that this is a winner. Especially after that First Stage tragedy.
Forgive the crappy resolution, the actual file is a beast. About 500 megs.
First Stage Cover Design.
And I do have a bitter rant about this one. Don’t read if you don’t want bitter ranting. So, me and all of my classmates did three illustrations for first stage in the hopes of publication and the chance at $300 for each illustration. I wasn’t counting on winning, but it’s always nice. I slaved my ass off on getting this cover right, and, theoretically, it was the hardest of the ten possible assignments to do, because it has to include references to all nine plays, target all possible audiences, and still look like a striking cover.
I knew I wasn’t going to win for Peter and the Wolf or To the Promised Land (the result of which was such crap I won’t even bother). And I felt pretty snubbed in the assignments, because the play I was born to illustrate I somehow didn’t get picked for. And I’m not just making stuff up, everyone was pretty surprised. But since I got the cover, which is kind of an honor, I didn’t bitch and moan about it.
The selection occurs. They decide to not do any of the covers and instead run the interior play illustrations as the covers, alternating seasonally.
So, okay, those things happen, right? And even though I tried really hard at this, and effectively lost a chance at winning some other prize because of it, I can deal with this just being the way things go.
My teacher puts up the top 4 selections in the hall for each category, with the winners always place in the upper right corner, second place upper left, and so on. Lo and behold, the “winning” cover selections are also put up, and mine was in the “first place” spot. I nearly flipped my shit. Maybe I should be happy that I did such a great design, but to know that I would have won, and then didn’t…really pisses me off. :|
Older stuff, but I finally figured out why I couldn’t get the colors right. (Embarrassingly, it was as simple as converting from CMYK/print to RGB/web. Heh.)
An illustration for First Stage Theater’s production of Peter and the Wolf. It wasn’t picked for publication. Probably because my feedback was something along the line of the wolf being too scary (it was for 2-5 year olds, so, intentional target audience fail on my part.)