Ummm... yes?

http://www.3x3mag.com/conference.asp

A blueprint for a successful illustration career July 9–10, 2010 | New York City | Sponsored by 3x3 Magazine

A conference for illustrators by illustrators

It's like 200 bucks but it's a tax write-off.
...provided I can make $6000 doing freelance this year.

Whaddup G?

It has been a ridiculously jam packed couple of weeks, and now that it's coming to an end, everyone keeps telling me to take a break and relax. They say I've earned it.

Buuuuut sitting is hard for me. This is how I take a break from "work."

And also by doing this:

Which, actually, is more like doing homework than one would immediately realize. I have been learning priceless things from Bugs Bunny cartoons, I'll tell you what.

Magazines magazines. Cortar cortar.

I did two magazine layouts for examples of how my spot illustrations would appear. I'm really just putting off redoing that building in the bear one.

I've been redoing my website again and again... as you may have noticed from the new page banner up there. I'll have a whole post dedicated to what a fiasco that has been. As it stands everything is figured out except the html. Big part to figure out eh? My goal is to have it edited and perfected by Memorial Day.

New Shoes

I got a good night's sleep and redid some things. One of which is that Runner's World Shoe Guide project.

And thank you House Industries for being AWESOME and giving me Signpainter Slant for free. I love you!

Fffffuh!

From scratch!

I've been using a lot of green lately. Maybe because I'm so excited that winter is over, the trees are back, and I can run in Fairmount again. (Something about this sentence is funny, sunnyfolk you get it.) Anyways, I want one of the next letters I do to be like this:

Not a sports page, or a magazine, but a book... read a book, read a book.

I'm a huge nerd and love libraries, so I wanted to do a promotional poster that could be hung in schools.

These were my primary sources of inspiration, in order of importance...

And I'll take this time to say that if you couldn't spot the tauntaun influence and assume I was watching TESB when I came up with that creature, I'm sorry but we will never be friends.

You like me, you really like me...

I know it's not massive, but it's so encouraging to just be given a little bit of recognition every once in a while. I'm like a tougher version of Tinkerbell, alls I need is a couple of little claps every now and then, and I'm set.

In other news, I found out I won the Marcel Vertes Award... given each year to "a senior whose drawing of the human figure has been outstanding." I was so happy.

There are some other truly amazing figure artists in our graduating class and I hope they get some form of recognition in the near future... like lotsa jobs and money.

google translate: ra ra, lutdut daha, ga ga, oohla laha

I revoke my statement in the last post. This is my new Best Piece Ever. I really nailed the boobs on this one. And on that note, I'm going to use this opportunity to practice my professional artist's statement writing, while utilizing some sweet html I just learned to make my longer blogs more reader-friendly.
Ahem...

Lady Gaga, Royal Flush mock cover
Kristin Leigh Koefoed, 2010

For this personal piece I decided to make the illustration of a mock cover for the magazine Royal Flush. Keeping the general voice of the magazine in mind, I recognized that were this a real-world assignment, avid RF readers might at first be horrified to see a pop icon on their favorite alternative magazine. Due to this, it was especially important to make the headlines as clear as possible verbally, and as present as possible graphically. It is indicated that the feature article tries to analyze the nonsensical phenomena of modern pop music from an outside perspective, rather than glorifying it.

For the secondary text, I referenced previous issues of Royal Flush and compiled a list of people featured in the magazine, their occupations, and markets. I used the whole to develop a better sense of what RF's readers care about and from there, I only had to make a list of people and things I would write about if this were my magazine.

For the Royal Flush logo and the Number Foundation insignia, magazine editor Josh Bernstein was nice enough to send me high resolution copies. For this I am so thankful, because trying to use the pen tool to trace over a crappy scan would have undoubtedly bore horrifying results.

However, as I was unable to acquire Neutraface 2, the House Industries font family used by the actual magazine, I laid in a substitute font** that I felt had the same overall feel. Overall, I would like to see the piece done in Neutraface, but I think for the lack of $300 this version satisfies the needs of the assignment and my personal standards.


**–The font used is Telegrafico, one of my Top Five Favorites Free Fonts for the month of April 2010. The huge problem with Telegrafico is that there is no lower-case set. Luckily that was not an issue for this assignment.

Ely shmely.

Well I figure since our opening reception was the 18th and then we took the show down on the 20th, now is as good as ever to make a post about my senior thesis.
I think they're the best pieces I've done so far.

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater.

It's meant to speak on the tradition of almost all women-geared magazines effectiely doing their part to keep women acting like a bunch of dimwitted twits.