CD Case

Here is the bra case that everyone has been wondering about. Sorry the photography is kinda crappy, but if you are really interested you can see them in person over the summer, WHICH STARTS IN 5 DAYS! Also, this was my first attempt at embroidery... by hand... on lace, so gimme a break :P

CD design

For this project, I had to redesign a CD entirely. I chose to redo the Dresden Dolls "A is for Accident" CD. While the music was good, the art design was god awful... So I redesigned the cover, booklet, and case itself. I decided to theme it around common household accidents that would seem stupid, but after googling for a list, they were on the top 100 (for infants and adults together). I then redesigned the case out of a bra and thong set that I found at Wal Mart for $10. It was my first ever attempt at embroidery so it isnt that great, but hey, I embroidered a bra, that was way more work than required for this project. Also, because the bra couldn't stand on end, I had to make a box for it too, so I essentially made a case for my case. Anyway, I am fairly happy with the results, I ended up working on this for 14 hours straight one day and was actually having fun with it.

The first photo is the original cover, the following are the booklet spreads and the last is the back of the case case. Pictures of the bra case will be posted when I get it back from the prof.

Thanks to (in order of pictures)
Samah
Jen
Hannah
Reina
Rachel
Katrina
Huyen

collage

For this project, we had to create two collages and include words in them that opposite each other. My words were decency and corruption. I think I have had more fun doing this project than any other since we had to shoot all our own photography. The skywriting text was a pain to make though... Now if I can just get these bad boys mounted before passing out I will be good. Oh and sorry Mark, once again the composition with you in it was not chosen by the prof to be a better one...

art dept poster

So, I had to design a poster for the art department at Truman. Vectoring was not mentioned once in the instructions, so I decided to do it anyway, because I hate myself or something. Anyway, the result was Unleash your Creativity with a stylized lion head holding a brush. Yeah... thats about it...

Photo Real Vector

IM DONE!

So, for this project we had to take a photo that we shot and vector half of it to look photo real, but leave the other half as the original photo. This took SOOOOOO LONG! About 35 hours over the course of one week. I am pretty happy with it since it impressed the prof, so hopefully that means I got an A.
First pic is the original

the second pic is the version that is half vectored (the final) and the third is just the vectored half without the original pic. Hopefully they show up in that order, but blogger kinda sucks about uploading photos with text so hopefully you can distinguish which is which

light bulb vector

So... vectoring shiny things suck. I did some swapping programs back and forth from Illustrator to photoshop to make this work like the prof wanted it to look (photo real) even though I personally like it before I used the smudge tool to bring the shades together, but here they are

first commissioned work

So, the delta chi fraternity called me up after hearing that I do vector work and wanted me to do their spring 10' rush shirts. Super excited just to have something artsy on my resume. I am not sure what the quote on the back means other than I think it is from the Wu Tang Clan, but hey, work is work.