Birthday Wishes

I made this card for my friend for his birthday. I used India ink on Bristol board to create the designs and then cut them out and glued them together for a nice handmade birthday wish. And yes Photography is half of the fun.

The one thing I really regret as far as the card goes is that I wish I had made other people wonderful cards for their birthdays as well. I know a handful of people would definitely appreciate them more than others would.

Also, Knowing now what I didn't know then, I would have definitely used gloves and been more careful because of the ink's nature and when working with glue it leaves traces of ink wherever you touch.

People

So I attempted to make the darling Ren into a beautiful vector creation. her hair and face are lovely but the pompoms are not what I want and I definitely think I need to practice a lot more. It was a good piece to practice on, I just need to figure out how to properly coordinate everything in my head onto the computer.

Experimenting

I think the one thing I have yet to work on successfully is the use of the human figure in vector design. I really want to work on that and It's gotten to the point where I most definitely need to teach myself since gaia online is of no help finding artists to help and probably most successful artists when it comes to the human figure don't want to share their secrets! So that's my goal. I know it is constant, however it is definitely necessary.

Sharing Time!

Some cute little Duckies I took a photo of.

Indeed

So I hope to kick my graphic design career into full gear shortly. I came up with business cards that are being distributed whenever someone says "Oh hey I like your poster" Yay~ Not that I have an actual website or will have one any time soon.... Drat.

I am also heavily researching t-shirt printers so I can hopefully print some of my own designs and go "Yeah I made it -Smile hands business card-" Of course my mother bought me card stock with designs already on them but oh well. It was nice of her regardless. Now Just to print the shirts...

Perspective

For some strange odd and stupid reason I can't seem to remember how to properly draw with the use of perspective. This is completely stupid because for a whole two semesters I didn't study anything but perspective. This is so stupid. How could I have ever forgotten how to draw stupid perfectly in perspective cubes? Anyway, I included a page of my sketchpad and attempted to properly put into perspective a wand with a star on top. That did not work out very successfully now did it?
For some reason all of my creative antics went out the window as I stopped drinking coffee. How depressing. I am going to continue to sketch from life because that will probably help spark my creativity. After all it is from discipline that creativity proves itself. And I am trying to surge the creativity within.

I am reading this book that I won at an AIGA guest speaker talk through my school. The book is called "Do Good Design" and it is all about the power of labels and branding and how powerful it really is. There are a lot of random and interesting facts that I learned from the book such as, coke is the second most understood word worldwide. The first is OK! And small towns have Coke brand their towns for 200 dollars just so they can get on a map! How utterly ridiculous is that~

I'm not using this blog as a sketch dump so much anymore because it became so easy to use my phone to upload pictures and post them on the go with Tumblr. This however is my formal blog. (Even Livejournal isn't cool enough anymore!) My Tumblr. In all honesty I really need to keep my pencil moving so I can improve my drawing skills instead of just trying to draw something one day and nothing coming but squiggles! How depressing.

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