The Scent of Astor Place

This below has been keeping me occupied for a good part of today.
My class has been working with Bond No. 9, New York based fragrance company, to create the design of their Astor Place perfume. One of us is supposidly going to be picked as the one that is manufactured (but I am not sure if that will happen). They finally gave us the official templates of the bottle shape to do a more finalized presentation. I am more excited about my design now because it looks more refined from my initial sketch. Plus I lightened up the green. I'll post both of them for you to see the difference.

first



final w/ their templates

animal skateboard

I am super pumped about this new skateboard project. I transferred the drawing tonight and will start the painting tomorrow. Gee, I haven't painted since Thesis, which feels like forever ago. But, I bought new paintbrushes because mine turned to crap from abusing them last semester.

For this project, I am using a simplified palette of blues and oranges. I have always loved a turquoise blue with a poppy orange. MMMM. I changed around my initial idea of doing muted tones due to the skateboard itself being this great blue-green color that I fell in love with.

Here is my sketch:




more to come soon!

Stay in the Shade

A poster for a campaign about skin cancer prevention.

Happy Easter!

This is a piece about Dual-Majors that will be featured in Current Magazine.

Two days until Cleveland

I am working on some really exciting projects right now that will have to wait until I come back from Cleveland to start working on them. But they are

1. campaign for skin safety to promote awareness about skin cancer
2. an awesome skateboard that will be a complex composition of animals that I have been dying to do
3. freelance CD Cover design
4. self-published book from lulu...topic is unknown right now
5. a poster design to create awareness about the events that are going on in Africa

...this is a sketch that I did last night ... reminds me of myself in my school uniform when i was younger

Ghost Encyclopedia

We had to depict different ghosts or spirits that will compose a ghost encyclopedia. The following pieces are my depictions of

the process of defrosting:



lactase:



stimulants:

American Way

This is the piece I did for American Way magazine for an article about the booming bamboo production in America. It is set their April 1st publication. If anyone is flying American Airlines around that time period, make sure to keep an eye out for the pandas!

Missing the Midwest

I felt the need to post something because I haven't posted any artwork in a while it seems. I had to create a sticker set in my Beyond Editorial class. I have been feeling for my hometown region a lot lately, maybe because I am homesick, so I used the Midwest states for it.

I think it would be great fun to make the entire United States in some sort of pick and stick game for kids.

A new week awaits me!

Things are going much better.
I was asked 2 weeks ago to do an illustration for American Way magazine, so I was busy working on that last week. It was one of those weeks when something was due in every class and then with the outside work, it was pretty tense. I'll post the American Way illustration soon, but just want to get the okay before I do. I can't wait to graduate!!

Also, I bought my ticket to go home for Cleveland for spring break. I wasn't planning on going home, but I was feeling really run-down last week. I think some good home relaxation will help me out. I'm looking forward to a good St. Patrick's Day celebration in good old C-town. I haven't seen the parade since highschool, so I am super pumped! Bring on the green beer.