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Well well well.....before the Final Review post that I would like to write, I need to make sure to post what I was able to do in Illustration since the Society of Illustrators poster.

We finished the Native American Heritage Month posters and I was able to turn the following in.  It was a big challenge to try and make sure it was only 2 pantone colors, but I managed after wrestling with it for a while.  I really liked the finished piece because I haven't had time to do some nice graphite drawing in a while.  I love watercolor, but I just can't wait until Drawing 3.  The typography was done hastily though since I had trouble with coloring and Rusty made sure to point it out in class.  Sorry....I will never make that mistake again!  xD

Next was the lovely classical album artwork.  I had trouble thinking of an idea for this one but found a funny punny thing about Beethoven, Brahms, and Bach being known as "the 3 Bs".....so naturally I envisioned them as bees....that was my first idea.  I looked forward to it, but Rusty suggested I pick something else.  I ended up picking Ballerinas......with some encouragement from classmates.  This was an extremely busy time of the year for me so it took a long time for me before I was able to finish it.  However, I really like the end result.  I painted the ballerinas and background, and just pasted on the heads and did the typography in PS.  We had to have 3 sizes printed....so much foam core.....all gone!

After that, we had the World Record illust.  I originally conceived drawing a guy furiously head-chopping watermelons, but that was deemed too literall.  After weeks of thinking, I found one that would be fun to illustrate.  I chose the World's Highest Bunny Hop...which only ends up being like 4 ft, or something.....but I'd rather exaggerate.  I chose to vector it so that I could do it quickly....of course....I spent more time than I meant and was glad to finally realize I DID have more time!   I am proud of the detail it has.  I even spent 4-5 hours on the face, but ended up thinking it looked wierd and covered it with sunglasses.....The early printouts in AI and ID, however, had a lot of problems, so I had to drop it into Photoshop and flatten it to finally get it to print out right.

IDK maybe I should have kept the face.....it's good....but he seems.....too happy & not "cool" enough.....not sure.
Without sunglasses:

Finally, we had to do classic Book Covers!  Hooray, I had a really great idea for this and felt like I executed it really well.  I chose the Great Gatsby, and after the success with my world record vector, I chose to vector the cover as well.  It ended up with just enough detail and was able to finally utilize transparency and the Color Editor in AI to edit large groups of colors.  Here, we have Gatsby and Daisy holding hands behind Tom's (Daisy's husband's) back.  Once again, we needed 3 sizes.