Premiere Comics!

This was a project assigned in my Identity and Brand Design class. We were asked to design a letter form mark for a local business of our choice. I couldn't decide on a business for a looong time but as Marc and I were suit shopping for his big interview we drove past Premiere Comics and I decided that they were the ones for me! Sounds nerdy except when you realize that I've never read much less owned a real comic book. I guess I'm a poser. Anyways, without further ado (that's a silly word) here are my marks.

 

This is my first mark in b&w. I drew this by hand and then scanned it in a tweaked it on the computer.

Here is my first mark in color. I chose red, white, and blue because Premiere seems to specialize (or at least advertise like the specialize) in American comics. Notice the halftone pattern going on to reflect comic book printing. Eh? Eh?

Here is my second mark completely computer generated after failing and many more sketches. I'm really happy with the way it came out despite the lack of sketching! It proves to me that sometimes you just need a fresh start and perspective.

Here is my second mark in color. I chose the yellow because I really wanted a yellow star to reflect the *bang pow booms* of the old Batman cartoons and stuff and the blue just goes well with it.

Anyways, thanks for being faithful readers even though none of you can figure out the commenting section. I really couldn't either until I got an actual account. If I ever get pointers on that maybe I will teach you all how to do it one day. =]

Muddy

For my Digital Illustration class, we were asked to respond to whatever prompt a website called "Illustration Friday" sent us. We were free to do whatever we wanted as long as it responded to the prompt which was "muddy." Well, I struggled a lot at first to become really committed to any idea, nothing was really exciting me, until this one! Here it is a Photoshop illustration of something muddy! I guess I will call it "The Sty"

Let me know what you think!

Forgive the size, this is "large" and it's actually kind of small, and "Extra Large" is waaay to big. I need a happy medium here.

Happy Snow!

This week we had lots of snow, in Texas! Crazy! I enjoyed the snow in Abilene, but came to Keller to discover that I really didn't enjoy as much snow as Keller did. Anyways, I just wanted to leave you with a picture of my boyfriend and I with our masterfully crafted snowman "Mr. WhoDat."

 

Stay warm!

Alternate Headers

Another Digital Illustration assignment.

Dan asked us to make a blog (which I had done already) and make a custom header (which I also did). Soooo here are some alternates he asked us to do!

  

Unbordered Uncolored.

  

Unbordered but colored. 

  

Border, with no color.

  

Hmm now that I post this, I'm not wild for it, but oh well. Border with color, the choices are endless here though.

I probably won't use any of these for a while, but hey now I've got them for the future!

Modern Saint

This was an assignment in my Digital Illustration class. We were asked to pick a saint from the Roman Catholic church and create a modern portrait of our saint using monoprint techniques, which we then scanned and colored digitally.

I chose St. Anthony of Padua. He is the patron saint of lost articles. I chose him because my sweet grandmother always brags on this saint when she finds something she's lost. I'm not sure how she would feel about this portrayal though!

 

Good old St. Anthony. Just for kicks, here's the prayer you would pray to St. Anthony had you lost something you desperately need to find.

"Saint Anthony, perfect imitator of Jesus, who received from God the special power of restoring lost things, grant that I may find {mention your petition} which has been lost. As least restore to me peace and tranquility of mind, the loss of which has afflicted me even more than my material loss. To this favor I ask another of you: that I may always remain in possession of the true good that is God.Let me rather lose all things than lose God, my supreme good. Let me never suffer the loss of my greatest treasure, eternal life with God. Amen. "

Until next time!