Final Project: Old Maid Game

The name of my game is Yes??  It derives from my weakness to say yes to many more projects than I am capable of managing.

This is the back of my cards. The words and phrases emphasize how my common mistake before handling a project--accepting more than I can accomplish in a timely manner. 

 The next series of cards are color coordinated by background. Red represents the events that changed my art style, yellow is the activities that inspire me, green includes the inanimate objects that I keep close to me, and grey is for the people that inspired me, and orange is my old maid. 

Events: 

Snowball Fest 2011 was the first time I was introduced to EDM music.

SXSW 2009 was the most inspirational and craziest spring breaks of my life ... I lived like a king for a week. 

Living as a snowboarder in Avon, CO. 

The first drawing in which I became aware that I could draw. 

My everlasting trip to Cambodia 2011.

Activities:

Playing guitar helps to resonate extra creativity within me. 

I keep an abundance of art history books around me

I follow video blogs, Youtube, Vimeo, and Hulu.

Downtown Austin is sacred land to me. I'll got pub crawl or run the city.

My scooter helps inspire my journey

Inanimate Objects:

Pencils and supplies are always around for any free flowing inspiration

My nalgene will never go empty

My thinking caps keep me creative

Caffeine or any type of energy stimulant is necessary to keep a good pace

A mickey mouse figurine that was a top my 4th birthday cake

People:

Chanda is my girlfriend, she loves yellow, and I always get her to critique my art.

Skrillex is just one of my favorite DJ's at this time, he's become very successful and that inspires me.

My sister is a Yogi now, and a wonderful artist.

Jason Jenkins is a powerful spirit that has allowed me to advance my skills.

Activities:

Bass Cannon refers to the volume and style of music I currently listen to when creating.

I dance with my music or just to my own drum. 

The driving range can be medicinal for me.

I exercise to stay healthy as well as clear my head

Longboarding brings a bit of thill into my steady life.

Old Maid:

My old maid is a depiction of me carrying all of the projects I've accepted, while also trying to balance and manage them. It's no easy task. 

Project 7: The Bard

Using our Pseudonym that we create a project ago, we are now to illustrate a playbill for the Royal Shakespeare Company in the style of our Pseudonym. Unfortunately for me, I have nearly read none of these plays, with the exception of The Merchant of Venice. Even still it was many mornings ago, that it was difficult for me to recall. Lucky for me my girlfriend was an avid fan of shakespeare and she would be able to summarize each play. I eventually stuck with The Taming of the Shrew. It boasted a similar story as a recent movie, 10 Things I Hate About You, and symbolizing this plays theme was as easy as a pair of wedding rings and an inscribed quote.

As my Pseudonym would, he painted most of the playbill, including the rings, the inscription the background and boarder. My pseudonym also likes to treat the background and boarder with harsh brush strokes and paint splatter, to contrast the prettier and "tamed" features, if you will.

InClass 7: Editorial Illustration

Based on an article I was given, I was assigned to them create a splash page in regards to the article. Only allotted an hour to concept and then create. I'm pleased with the vision just wish I had more time for the details, such as, the Metlife Burglar  is actually suppose to have cookies in hand putting cookies into the jar.

Project 6: Simplification Through Symbolism

This weeks assignment was intended to inspire "quick-fire" ideas but through methodical development. We first chose 10 quotes that contained imagery, then narrowed those quotes to the best 3. Next the best 3 quotes were accompanied by at least 10 thumbnails. Only the best thumbnail for each quote was selected for final production. My final designs were finished in Vector. Here are my designs and quotes.

I considered depicting a runner with empty pockets or a heart protruding out of a chest, but this was the simplest imagery. 

Because the quote suggests that seeds planted are greater than harvest reap, I chose to depict the seeds over the plant like in a division equation. 

Not my favorite but the idea was the create a broken world inside an apple. This one definitely needs some refinement because the pieces of the world are much too small to work in logo form. 

This project allowed us to portray the ugliness in some attractive things. My attractive examples were Dogs, Bag of Money, Hill Country, and Planting a Tree. The ugliness was then created based on how each example was portrayed.

 

I love dogs, just not Pugs. To me their ugly, especially when they're nose deep in their crotch.

 

 A bag of money is a glorious thing to find, and wished by many college students, but not when it's for a ransom.

 

 The Hill Country is beautiful and we shouldn't mess with Texas, but then where does all the trash go?

 Planting a tree is probably the best service anyone can do, but not when someones trying to chop one down somewhere else.

InClass: Assignment 4 & Project 4

Today's assignment encouraged us to become someone dramatically different from ourselves. We were able to detach from our reality and live in a fantasy. Whether good or bad, the concept was to envision and embrace a Pseudonym. Mine is Harrison a Computer Networking Guru, that's wealthy and  engaged in all sorts of social media. He's made a lot of money creating Apps and Operating systems in which our smart phones and tablets use. He also became the world famous Alchemist, finally turning an organic item into Gold.

The Pseudonym led into Project 4 and building up our character to be featured on a CRYK Polish Style Poster. It was also required to add an emotional word that attaches to the characters personality. I chose arrogant for my character. He's actually a successful alchemist and a billion-dollar-geek, that's Lex Luther potential arrogance. My main medium was Adobe Illustrator, largely using the pen tool to create Harrison and type tool and direct selection tool for the rest. Used texture to subtract tiny areas away to create a vintage look. 

Project 3: Totally Looks Like ...

We dropped the pencils and picked up the camera for this project. We were to look around and find objects and stuff that looks like well recognized things. Most of my photos can from one day of shooting at Cedar Park Veterans Memorial Park. 

I saw a Piet Mondrian's painting in the playscape. I was lucky to get the little dabs of primary color seen through the tiles on the playscape.  

From Disney's Aladdin

Gumby was at the water fountain.

This is a useful tool, but maybe I'll keep it caged up just in case. 

This playscape even has the eyes

This one's more obvious

AHHH!!

I hope this brings me good luck

It's an Astrodome for ants

Generally Baseman's characters don't have an open jaw, this is the best example I could find. The candle holder definitely has a face but the artist it resembles is hard to find.