Author: KC

  • It’s interesting for these effects that the clarinet image is on top of the stripes.

  • Here’s my Blob-Brush Dragon and his homeland, BlobBlending Volcano Island. (Done in Illustrator in class.)

  • I started working on the final for this class. I chose the Chicago Blues Festival option. I originally was intrigued by the Rodeo event and thought about how I could make that fun for me, and I realized that the audience and I have nothing in common. I am not sure about these assignments where…

  • I worked on some more of these Christmas things. I am having a lot of fun playing with ink, making this world where every picture frame is slightly crooked and everyone’s eyes are buggin’ out.

  • I went to hand-drawing the poster for Graphic Design History Assignment based on Robert Crumb. It definitely reflects the topic, but I wonder if too much. Would it have been more clever to adopt a contrasting style like art deco or Russian constructivism? Update 11-24: I wanted to jazz up the poster with a little…

  • Here’s a mood board. What is a “mood board?” Well, it’s a collected effort to establish the tone of whatever campaign you are trying to put together. The one I am working with includes pictures of kitchens, a muted picture of Portland and our color palate. I chose the color palate as well as the…

  • Today, the class learned how to do portraits. Claire had us make a face diagram for all the suggestions on how to make a face look more face-y, including the tips: shade the upper lip, suggest the lower lip with the chin shadow, the eye line has five eye-widths with the two real eyes separated…

  • Assignment: assigned topic– R. Crumb. Dimensions– 17×11 in. Other than taking a bad picture of the poster, I had trouble with this poster as it progressed. There might have been an optimal time to start, but after seeing all those movie posters in class, I felt that the collage-y chaos didn’t cut it, but I…