More Packaging

I got to do another packaging project. Packaging is one of my favorite things. I decided to do some packaging for jam because I thought it would be a good fit for my style. I did two because I thought doing one would be too easy and wouldn't be enough for a 2 week project.

Here are the proposed jam labels for Smucker's. I did one for strawberry jam and concord grape jam. Overall I think they look pretty good. The strawberry jam label is my favorite because I love drawing strawberries and red is my favorite color. If I would do anything different I would do the type in the banner by hand. I couldn't make the text wrap along the banner for anything in the world. So next time I would do the type by hand. I need to practice hand type anyway.

Here's a picture of the final 3 dimensional product. In the future I would like to take better pictures of my products. Photography isn't my thing. But I enjoyed working on this project and I would like to do more packaging projects in the future.

Store Signage

This post is late. I wasn't going to post it but I decided to go ahead. This project was for store signage which is art that you see in stores. I was really interested in chalkboard signage. I was thinking of doing the signage for Whole Foods or Fresh Market since I know they use a lot of chalkboard signage in their stores, specifically something for the bakery section since I like baked goods.

I did two. I like the first one better since the image is bigger. I wish i would have made the image on the 2nd one bigger or used the space in the composition a lot better. I used chalkboard spray on matte board to create my own chalk board. Then I used chalk markers on the homemade chalkboard. They were erasable like regular chalk, except they came off with water. I had to start over a few times before I started making something that worked for me. 

My friend recently showed me this bakery (that makes the best oatmeal cookies ever!!!) and we both really want to do store signage for them. They don't really have a lot of art work in the store area and it would be nice if they did. I noticed that had little chalkboards and I would love to do work on them. So today when we visited the bakery we got their business card and I think I'll be contacting them in the future. 

Toro Y Moi gig poster

I've always wanted to do a gig poster and I finally got to do one. I did mines for Toro Y Moi. I had struggled with the piece mainly with the decision of what kind of palette to use. I went through many palettes and hated most of them. But finally I just followed my instinct and used complements red & green and went from there.

If I would change anything is add a bigger bleed space. I think at one time my bleed space was fine, but then I had to move the "Toro y Moi" text around and make it bigger so it wouldn't bump up next to the trees behind it. I would also do better hand type at the bottom. It's not terrible but it does bother me a bit. It just could have been done a bit better. Overall I'm happy with my gig poster, I think it came out great.

Shoe ad

Here is a proposed shoe ad. I chose to do mine on creepers. I thought I could come up with interesting imagery because of the name. Although this wasn't my first choice in terms of composition, I still liked how it came out.

I usually post my work after I've had a critique so I could have more to talk about, but I can't wait. And I already printed this out to be mounted. Basically the creepers are in a coffin shaped shoe box with roses and thorns, pretty simple. It took me a long time to ink all those roses though. But I'm really proud of this poster even though it doesn't feel like an ad to me. I don't even know why. I do think the illustration would catch the eye of someone when they're flipping through the pages of a magazine though.

Our next assignment is to do a performance poster. I plan on doing a gig poster for Toro Y Moi. I always wanted to do a gig poster so I'm excited. So far I'm really liking advertising, I just don't know if I'll get a lot of advertising work in the future. But it's definitely something I'm interested in.

Children's book pitch

For my first assignment in my portfolio class I decided to do a children's book pitch for blue apple books. after critique I felt like I have a while to go before I actually make really good children's book illustration. Nothing really bad was said about my work, but I just personally feel I need to work on it some more before actually pitching something. I still plan to put it in my portfolio though because I do like the illustrations.

 This was my cover and it still needs some work. I wanted the "ABC's" text to go into the magnifying glass (which is why I drew it so big) area but I couldn't get it to look right. I also rushed the whole thing. I mean i like the drawing, I just wish it would have worked out the way I wanted it to. The basic idea was that I wanted to have the "ABC's" text in the magnifying glass but also have the girl included in the cover illustration. Still have to work on it though.

I felt like the area on the lower left was too empty. And I was surprised that no one said anything about it. 

This was my favorite page. I just really like the trees. and over all composition. I had some little green leaves in the right tree but took them out to put the text in. 

Um not much to say about this one. I think it's ok. You may have noticed that it was kind of difficult to see the letters, like the "A", "F", and "M", in the illustration itself. My professor told me I should put the letters on something, like the A on a book, or F in a flower. I really like that idea and I will do it whenever I get to redo these pages. Because I really like this idea and I really want to pitch it. I just need to do better.  And another thing I need to work on is leaving a bleed space.

I feel like I need to do more research, like actually look at more children's books. I wish I had transportation to a bookstore or library. But I guess I should just look at the children's books that are available in the school's library, it's better than nothing. 

This was a maze I did at the beginning of my children's book class last quarter. I really liked it. I like doing maze illustrations (even if coming up with the maze is kind of difficult). I would love to do more children activities for children's magazines and activity books. I do want to pitch this to some children's magazines in future. 

Closure to 2012

I have been really inactive on this blog but I hope to change that. I wanted to post some of the projects I did in fall quarter 2012 that I should have posted in December. I just became a sloth in December. The first project I want to share with you all is my packaging assignment. We had to find something at Hmart to rebranding. I chose these peanut cookies, they were a Korean brand.

I decided to use the monkey from my "monkey shenanigans" book for the mascot of the rebranded peanut cookies. Here's the illustration on the very front of the box. I'm proud of the "peanut biscuits" type I did. 

Here is another side of the box. Overall I think I did a decent job. I still need to study more packaging so I can get better. I did this in photoshop. Had to do a lot of scanning because I drew most of the elements including the type in my sketchbook.

Another project we had to do was to design some nesting dolls. I called them "The Jolly Roger Nesting Doll Set". This was actually our first project of the quarter. I'm glad I was able to work in my style. I had to do my own munny dolls and I felt like I couldn't do them the way I wanted to because I wasn't able to work in my style, which is basically cute and simple. I used fluid acrylic and color pencil.