
PE Week 5: Project Refinement
Deliverables: Brand book including: campaign overview, logo, line of 10 tee shirt designs, colors, patters, typography, best practices, photography, illustrations, ads, product set up in store, etc. Timeline: Week 5: 2/24/17 Present project proposal Week 6: 3/3/17 Logo sketches Illustrations & type for tee shirts choose color palette Week 7: 3/10/17 Begin laying out brand book in InDesign Tighten logo Tighten illustrations & type for tee shirts choose typography for brand Wee

Making of Penny Olive doll
Making a doll from your illustration: Before you start..... 1. Measure your sewing abilities- be honest! Handmade dolls are more sewing work, but very lovely in the end. I have a lot of experience sewing, but none following a pattern! If you feel very unqualified, try felt and embroidery floss! Search "softies"! 2. Decide whether you want to go handmade dolls or pillow doll printed (this depends heavily on time, budget and sewing skills). Both are very nice, but handmade will

Professional Explorations - week 4
Project Proposals

Greeting Card Workshop- week 4
Updates: Trying different clothing options and typefaces and sentiment layouts..... I am having a hard time clothing her because clothing is not really something I ever drawn or render and it keeps looking dumb... I went back to my original concept of everyday mama as goddess (since we all are) and decided to maintain the original characters wardrobe of undies, hot pants (boy shorts) and bare chested or spaghetti strap tanks. The only problem I am having with adding clothes i

Greeting Card Workshop- week 3
Trying to get my palette just right. My inspiration: Yorkcraft stationary set (1960's) I want to have the same look as the original Yorkcraft so I am experimenting with faux offset options... with black.... with white.... I tried hand painting these, but hated it and decided to go into the computer and try. To achieve that vintage screened look, doing it in PhotoShop and Illustrator seemed to make more sense. I love this, but it's just not the look I want for the cards.... I

Professional Explorations - Week 1
During my professional assessment I realized that I really want to continue my exploration from last semester in Contemporary Topics about Illustration Advocacy and self promotion. This semester I'd like to continue developing a really great and organized website portfolio as well as a series of self promotional mailing materials. I have been researching what other illustrators do to promote their work successfully, and I have found that the successful illustrators (in the sa