Getting Back into Digital Drawing

For Graphic Interface, we are creating a flash game. Quick timed 5 min sketch of something totally random. This kid isn't part of my game, but trying to get my brain flowing and more comfortable with digital drawing again. It's been awhile. Since I haven't posted for awhile, may as well post a doodle :)

Finest Little Cigar Made

My mom gave me this awesome, old cigar box from my Grandma. She doesn't know the history of it, but we think it was one of my Grandma's Father's cigar boxes. I'm dying to know the history of it, I'll have to find out.

I am SO excited to have this! Vintage graphic design, this box is one of those things that reassures me I'm in the right field if I'm drooling when I look at it :)

New painting: "Hope in Uncertainty"

This last weekend I heard of an art sale going on at USU. So I ran to the store, bought some canvases, and painted and painted and painted away! 3 days later, we set it up, and put it for sale the following day. End result: it didn't sale. But I did it, and I'm pretty happy about that.

Title: "Hope in Uncertainty"

History of ID and Architecture: Recap

This class caught me completely off guard. Turned out to be my favorite art history class, and a real inspiring one. Our professor was very animated and passionate about the class, which makes a WORLD of difference. We learned from the beginning of architecture, back to Egypt where pharoahs ruled, tombs filled with extravagant gold and precious stones and memorabilia and furniture. The first shelves discovered in Skara Bra, Scotland. On to Greece, and Rome and their sculpture, their philosophy, their politics and religious beliefs and how that effected the furniture they filled their rooms with. The Roman Triumphant Arch, symbolism. How this branched from Italy to France, then to England. The movement of Architecture and how much of what we see today stems back to ancient Greece. Queen anne funiture, Chippendale. It was so interesting to see how much Religion and Politics effected the movement of furniture, interior design, and architecture. Pushing extremes from everything for God, to everything for the law and rulers (eg. King Henry VIII) and how it's bounced back and forth depending on who was in charge. Who would have thought politics and religion were the major factors in the course of Interior Design and Architecture?

We sketched a total of 40 sketches, in pen, of furniture, art, or architecture we discussed. Here's a bunch thrown together to show a bit of what we did.



Class rating: *****

Happy Holidays!

Hope the Holidays found you all well! I know mine did. Lots of food, family, friends, singing, painting, sleeping, all that good stuff!

My sisters were creative this year and made a lot of their gifts for their kids. Tawnya crocheted toys, made pajamas, even crocheted me a cowl. Rachelle and Sean made a giant barbie doll house, sewed up some nightgowns for their girls. I'm constantly surrounded my creative people...and I love it. I had Lane for Christmas. He recently moved to Indiana for Dental School, and has been begging me to paint a picture for his house! And since I had him this year for Christmas, I figured I may as well paint his present!



God bless, and Happy Holidays!

End of Semester: Painting Recap

Turned into a hectic semester! Accomplished quite a bit. Picked up an internship that consumed MUCH more of my time than expected. Made a few posters, programs, and other things for music events. Really loved that opportunity. My Brand Identity class had a huge project to brand Downtown Logan City: our client was the head of the Downtown Alliance. Our group did an amazing job, I'm really proud of the outcome. Painting class was great, learned a lot and now really want to paint more! Here's some pics...

Painting 1:cluster of paintings



Favorite: Shoes




My other favorite was the 2nd palette knife painting. It was supposed to be a self portrait. Mine looked like a man, so I went with it. Then my professor said it looked like a dead corpse you might see at that "Body World" exhibit! Lol. It was fitting, being done around Halloween.



Turns out, I love to paint. I'll be doing more in the future :)

Brand Identity Final Project: the MFA

Brand Identity Final Project: The MFA

Recap: Rebrand Downtown Logan.

We gave a 10 minute presentation, including a preface to our project and proposal, a video illustrating our proposal, and question and answer time. I'm really proud of our group. We even pulled an all-nighter at the school, working on this til 6 in the morning. Hard work but it all paid off. During our presentation, we handed this 'swag' to the judges:








Here's a really horrible copy of the video. Figured it was better than nothing. (turn down your speakers...) I don't have the original file, so I recorded it from a burned DVD playing on my laptop LOL. It's a school project, not a professional video. Awfully time consuming but that's just how it is in the creative world! :) It really sweet at 1:53. SO happy with how that turned out.

Painting

A couple paintings from class. We've done about 6 paintings now, I'll post them later :)

The painting on the left was to be predominantly cool colors. The painting on the right was to show a passage from warm colors to cool colors. They need finished, but our professor wants us to bust out lots of paintings without worrying too much about the details. Just get used to mixing color and throw it together on a canvas, basically.

Brand ID: Abstract Mark

Design an abstract mark that visually portrays the core characteristics of a large conglomerate.

Client: "Provenance" a venture capital company.

I'll spare you the mission and positioning statement. If you would like me to post it, let me know and I will! But I will include how the company would like to be percieved==> powerful, supportive, innovative, precise, stealth, intelligent, measured risk-takers, and stable.

Process:



Final:



...critique: It matched the positioning statement. The logo needs smaller/ signature line bigger because the signature line disappears in reduction. Bob said to beware of black. "Black is the absence of color. It gives nothing back."

Final_2:

Brand ID: Word Mark

Group project time! We were to create our own unique software company, develop a mission and positioning statement, along with the name of the company. Then, individually, design it's logo.

My groupies: Tyler Godfrey, Greg Hunsaker, Kirt Larsen, Jeremy Wilkins, Laura Walker, Gabriel Anderson, Molly Critchfield. A total of eight. This made brainstorming and making a final decision a little chaotic, but we finally agreed.

Mission Statement
Gazelle is a comprehensive scheduler that efficiently plans the tasks and activities in your daily life at home or on the road. Gazelle incorporates work and pleasure through it's ability to adapt and personalize your schedule to accommodate your changing needs.

Positioning Statement
Gazelle is a unique software tool that accommodates your customized schedule minute by minute. We want to be perceived as a dynamic, quick, intimate, credible, fun, and trustworthy technology.

Process:



Final:



...critique: "God is in the details." My Professor, Bob (aka Robert Winward), is very critical in critiques. And the phrase "God is in the details" comes up often in our logo designs. Logos are made up of few lines, curves, planes, etc. So every line or curve we put down needs to serve a purpose, and every little detail counts. For my word mark, adding little tags on each of the letters, actually reconstructing some of the letterforms (due to a not-so-good free font I chose.) A huge help to the design was adding a curve on any pointed corner. Looking at it now, I feel there are still some slightly awkward moments in the design and it could use a bit more work..... Details!

PS. If you have any suggestions, on ANYthing, I'd love to hear them!!