Hooray for Revision

Decided to go in a totally new direction with my stress spread.  Very happy with it.

What I had before.....annoying....orange....before was very gray.  Gray was too mellow for the subject and the orange seems too childish.   So....before.

Sooooooo.....I wanted something a bit more contemplative, mature, yet edgy and modern....so this kind of just happened once I found this photo and got some serious sudden inspiration.  Yay!  We'll see how it is received soon.  Coolio.

Getting There......

Okay, I have a lot more progress now on my work!  Very excited.  But I still will be working day and night from here on out  (at least I got some focus on my other classes this semester?).  Here are the most recent updates of what I have started.  Nearly finished!

How about we go in order.
Here is my typeface poster!

Finished and Okayed - but with alterations concerning kerning basically.  Hoorah!  Looks so pretty, but I want to print something a little smaller and with color.

Second, here's JAZZ in all it's approved glory....save some color alts.

I really like the illustration and text alignment but still feel that it is really simple.  In a good way though, but I don't want to print this one.

Third wassssss....Newsletter.

My insides and back are basically approved but I've got to readjust the front.  Love this!

Fourth I had my happiness newspaper.  Used to be a big fan.  I mean look at the one I've got below!  This one is a pain to rebuild in AI because of my lost IN file.  Makes reusing the space a pain in the ass.  I am at least still happy with it but got to do some major moving before it is okayed again.  Meh.  Maybe I'll leave this one out of my portfolio.

Fifth is Yellowstone.  HEY, this one is approved!   :D  I really really love how it looks with the colors and triangles.  Only problem for printing is that the picture, although enlarged with perfect resize is still a bit pixelly.  Awww.  I may try adjusting it and printing it anyway though to compare to another piece.  I at least want this hanging in my room on luster!

Sixth is Red Barn.....oops.  I actually have the illustration done but I haven't used it and put it all in a poster yet!  I need to ASAP considering I need things approved!

Seventh is Detours.  Yay.

Whoohoo Detours!  I think this may be one of the ones I print thanks to some helpful recommendations.  Not finished yet but nearly there!

BTW, I am SO getting so much more done in a bright, active, sunny room like the SUB HUB than in my dorm room....yet not falling asleep like in the comfort silence of the library.  Fav new work place for crunch times?  Hell yes!

Eighth is Herpetology.  This is another backup for printing.  This is basically approved with cleaning but it is super cute and I love how my illustration turned out.

Ninth, I have the Native American Posters.  I really like these and its cool to see a different idea realized in addition to the one poster I made for illustration.  I've got 2 of these approved and I've got to find a new pic for the other so they are basically approved.

I guess I've gotta choose another for the celebrate one....but Meh.  It kind of works.  Celebrating victory?  Pride?  Meh.  We shall see if there are any similar photos to choose from.  Colors are fixed now though!

Tenth is well......heh.  I've got to finish the other ones now and show them to Rusty.  THEN I'll get them on here.  Priorities.  Gotta get to work!  Yay.

I'm Getting Stuff Done, I Promise!

Things have been....good.  Getting better.

My computer is near the state it was in before I had my accident and I am treating it extra carefully.  There are still things I am missing though, so I am considering emailing Matt or Rusty about PDFs that I have turned into them in the past....hope they keep things for a while!  I still don't know if I should go to the guy in OP about my old harddrive, but I'll figure out what to do soon.

Oh, gotta figure out next semester as well.  I'm planning to study abroad but the hard part is figuring out what to do and where to live when I get back in the spring.  Geez Vis Comm it would be much easier to have VC3 in the fall and have our break in the spring.  It would make everything so much easier and give us more time to prep for study abroad.

I've got ideas for my bookcovers....doing 451 F since I did Gatsby last semester in illustration.  I think it is hilarious we are doing assignments again, but I guess it is good.  I don't have anything else to post on this computer ATM though so that will have to wait.

Rusty likes the burning letters one, so I've got another illustration to work on.  Like my concepts this time though.  However, doing minimalistic, clean design feels like cheating to me because of the amount of work involved.....even though I like it SO MUCH.



Aside from VC, I'm really interested in customizing my desktop on my Mac further.  I've always admired Rainmeter for PCs but it turns out there IS an app called GeekTool that allows you to write scripts that can do just about the same things as Rainmeter can.  Exciting!  I shall research this tonight and put my CS skills to work.

Example of GeekTool desktops...  NOT MINE, but good inspiration.
In the future, I also can't wait to have my own dual-screen desktop battlestation to implement this stuff on.  I feel like desktops can definitely stay on longer and thus are almost like an existing piece of art in the room.

Mobile Test Whooo

Okay, so my parents surprised me on friday with a cheer-up visit and also showed up with my old pc and external HD.  It's hard readjusting to Windows (I keep trying finger gestures and using the opt. Key)  but I'm so glad to have it.  My phone was due for an upgrade so we got that done as well.  Now my phone doesn't need its umbilical cord yayyy!  I can use apps and blog from my phone now so maybe I'll post more.    Parents took my poor baby to the Apple store and got it repaired.  I'll pay them back after the summer.  HD is toast but I hope to one day see if some important files can be recovered by the pros.  It's scaring me.  I need portfolios for interviews.  I need to invest in a Time Machine from apple one day.  Auto wireless backup!  Until then, learned a lesson.

Getting stuff done, but a roadblock ensues...

Well, I'm still really enjoying Viz Comm.  Everything was going well and I was getting stuff done on time, however,  a couple nights ago, once I finished my hw in the morning before class, my computer has an accident.  I don't know if it is yet fixable, but we shall wait and see.

Anyway, I at least have PDFs of some of my latest work, but none of my revisions now.
I also just spent the last few minutes this class period rebuilding the homework I had done that night from memory.

So, first up was the poster for Yellowstone.  Looks all pretty, yay!  We can use more colors now and have bleeds so that is really exciting.  I want to properly resize the image to fit the 13x19 (or 11 x 17??) requirements though.  For revisions, Rusty basically would like me to move the text and triangles up and around.

Red Barn, yay!  This was a rough / beginning draft of my idea.   Silhouette of a barn, being painted and all.  Everybody said it looks like a tshirt though....  Rusty gave me a great idea of doing a proper illustration for the poster, so I'm looking forward to finishing that.

This is the redo of my spread for Detours.  I swear it looks exactly the same as the one I finished before my mac broke.  Yay good memory!  

Idea / rough for Herpetology.  I had an image of two cute frogs facing each other between the text that I wanted to use as an illustration inspiration.  IDK, we shall see.  :P