Author: KC

  • I just made this banana in Adobe Illustrator (CS5.1) using the gradient mesh tool. I love technology. Adobe-day I learned how to make pattern swatches (amazing!). This is intellectual-yoks wall paper.  

  •   I redesigned the front cover because I reread the assignment guidelines and and some requirements were absent. Which was good, because I didn’t really like the front cover design. It wasn’t as slick as the back cover (which I kept). As per the assignment, I put it in a jewel case and boy, does it…

  • During last week’s illustrator class, we played with type. Here’s my CD cover assignment: This is Laura Marling’s debut album, Alas, I Cannot Swim.  

  • More mid-term relating drawings. I am not sure yet whether these will be the pieces that I use, but I really like how they relate to the theme in their formal elements.        

  • Today was a work day for the mid-term in drawing class. The lovely Claire went around to everyone and pulled a gun, a Tim Gunn. She would try to understand your sketches then offer her takes on your direction and try to pull you to something that she thought youd be sucessful doing. When she gave…

  • There’s a quote that reads something like “I used to like current events, but now, there’s so many of them.” I think he was talking about modern art.

  • Assignment: “Pick one of the four companies [Pineapple Patrol(Game Company),Mouse’s Book Cafe, Black Sheep Tattoo, Rainy Day Daycare]  / sketch 10 different ideas for that one company / take one of your sketches (ideas) and continue to sketch it and push it as far as you can / have the sketch that you pushed as far as…

  • My poster as it hangs in the fifth floor hallway. I really liked how it turned out. I think the 3-d aspect gave me a challenge and I feel like I rose to the occasion. Especially if you know Behrens much, this feels like his style on speed, which what it needed to be because…