Happy Housewives.

I figure there's a chance I'll get a job as a junior designer at one of those periodicals geared towards moms and white suburban housewives, so I better get some practice and portfolio pieces ready. This is a color sketch with (hopefully) final type layout.

One day this will exist.

So after spending three hours putting things away and cleaning things up, I decided to make a comp of how I want my website to look. I'm not sure how to do it, but it's really simple so I should be able to. The bean will look better in the final.

I'm glad my mom convinced me not to use hot pink.

web. shite.

We're in the final session of our website development workshop. I have pages of sketches of how I want my site to look. And yet...

I maintain optimism though. "Why doesn't this look good" is nothing I haven't dealt with before.

Hey! New Friend! Color sketch.

Either in honor of the Winter Olympics, or because they're frocking everywhere that they've permeated the walls of my imagination, I came up with this image. I'm trying to practice limited color palate, and I think this is a good progress mark for me.

The Naked Swimmer. Color sketch.

Consideration is being given to potential three dimensional applications of this image... mmmm product design, my long lost love! I'm also thinking of titling the image "The Olympic Swimmer's New Robes."

No walkmen. Color sketch

So here's how that Ely Poster turned out....

First off, I'd like to thank God for the two snow days we got in which I got to dedicate some serious work to this project. Had I been required to turn it in on time, I would have been severely dissatisfied.

I started out with a really rendered colored pencil version, but found that after the digital application of color, it looked a little too messy for my liking. So I redid all the coloring and drew over the linework digitally. I was really pleased with the image (aside from the type... I'll fix that later on).

Out of all the seniors' posters, the image we picked to be mass produced was an awesome design by Jim Tierney. So congratulations to him, he totally deserves it!

Ely ely ely, I've had enough of this Ely guy!

We have been asked to design the poster for our senior thesis exhibition.
This is Round One of the sketch phase. I'm abandoning the third idea and amping up the first two compositions in another round of sketches. From there I will select one to take to final illustration, and then I will perfect the type design.
My favorite is the crabbies, but I'm nearly positive the client would rather go with the sidewalk chalk. We shall see which is the victor...

Twenty twenty twenty four hours to go...

HAYWARD, Wis. (Oct. 17) -- Shoppers in a Wisconsin grocery store got an unexpected surprise when a 125-pound black bear wandered inside and headed straight for the beer cooler.

Here is a piece that landed me a good crit. I wasn't the proudest I've ever been, but given the circumstances I was satisfied with the piece. The forties need some adjustment. JonReinfurt told me to go get reference, then quickly corrected himself by adding "on the internet!"


Story: Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.

Food, glorious food.

These are some spot illustrations I did the recipe book I'm making for my Bookbinding class final.