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New Design Books

Meg — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:07:14 +0000

With Borders closing very soon I decided that I should get my butt down there and see what design books they had left. I was in denial for quite a while, I didn’t want the one and only book store in town to close down. I hate seeing business which bring culture to the community leave. Hopefully another book store company will pick them up.

Anyways back to my point, books! I wanted to share with you which books got at a good buy. I was surprised how many design books there were left. So far I’m really enjoying Breaking into Freelance Illustration it is easy relate to (even though its not a work of fiction) and has a lot of helpful information.

Octopus for hire

Meg — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:00:50 +0000

See Arm for Details

I’m in love with this simple little design/illustration that’s up to vote on Threadless. It doesn’t help that I feel this way about trying to find a graphic design job >.<

Vote for this design to become a shirt here!

Doodle Girl

Meg — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:10:52 +0000

I just made this little random doodle girl in 30 mins in illustrator. I got the inspiration from watching a cartoonist video online. I thought to myself, I can do that: draw a simple shape figure! I tryed it on paper real quick and then on the computer, the computer one came out better.

This isn’t particularly special, but at least its something creative for the day and I tried something new!

On a side note I’ve been thinking about something I could do for a project that would dead with art or just creativity. I’ve been playing with the idea of making zine, and making it available online for free. Or just now I thought about making a web comic (ie xkcd)out of these kind of figures. And I have even thought about the cliche project of taking a self portrait every day for a year. The first two I would have to seriously sit down and think through how I would execute my ideas and think about content/story ideas. While the 365 photos sounds easy to do, i just have to remember to do it.

I mostly want to do something because I’m afraid of losing my creative and artsy edge. I don’t want to lose who I am! I feel like loving art and making art is who I am. Without that then I would be just a girl floating by with no ambition, sure she went to college, sure she works in retail, but who is she really? I want to be a person who does things!

On a Thursday night

Meg — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:26:42 +0000

Tonight I was messing around with photoshop and illustrator and I thought I’d share what I was up to. Above is the final result of tonight and I’m quite pleased with it. I’ve never done any illustrations like this, I always try to make the images look too realistic when working from a photo. Maybe this was easier because I was working with a photo of my self. The closest I got to the flat illustration look it this.

Here’s the progression of experiments that I worked on tonight:

Original photo: heavily rotated and a bit cropped (mostly on the sides)

Version 1: messing around with cropping and filters in photoshop. The main things I wanted for this image was to get the color in the scarf to come out, get the green in my eyes to pop and the color of my glasses to be more prominent.

Version 2: About the same as above but in black with a background color, still experimenting. Tim called this on a Andy Warhol Megan. It’s interesting, but I wasn’t content with it.

New cropped photo: it’s still from the original photo, but it has been edited a bit more. I like the highly saturated and contrasting look to this photo. I changed to crop because I felt like the scarf was working in the illustrations and I liked emphasizing the curls on the left.

Version 3: The more I look at this version, the more I like it. Out of all the photoshop experiments I like this on the best. I made the previous photo black and white; messed with the dodging and burning to get the hair the way I want it; and messed with filters.

Now you know what I do with my “college Friday night” a but dorky, I know. But once I get a streak of inspiration to do something I need to use it as much as I can, you never know when another will come your way. I love the result I got tonight (first image)! I find it interesting that I worked with photos of myself and not someone else. I’m such a narcissist!

I hope you enjoyed the blog post, sorry its a bit long at least there are pretty pictures.

renewable energy poster 2

Meg — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:38:53 +0000

So here is my second option for the poster assignment on renewable energy. The teacher likes this concept better than the gas masked earth so I thought I would try it out. I like the color scheme, I might change the orange to red if it look to traffic cone like. The out going circles seem to be a bit awkward, maybe I can mess with those. It looks better when you blow up the image to full size (20×15). This isn’t due for another week, but still get to see what he says tomorrow.

Meg — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:43:02 +0000

Goldfish Turn On by onewayprophet

Just a cute concept for a vecor art, he/she used illustrator cs3!

Meg — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:07:34 +0000

First date

My Heart’s As Big

GINNIP is an artist I have just started following on Etsy and you can see why. Cute things in the shope from magnets to notebooks to typography. I just love the illustrations, they have such cute emotions.

Meg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:14:39 +0000

Feed Your Soul: the free art project has found a couple the the coolest of he cool art pieces fr you to have free! On the right we have Adrienne Vita and the left we have Tamara Richal. Both such beautiful art pieces.