Fluffy Floofy

I'm working on integrating my 3D work into a 2D format, cause drawing ain't my best thing. So here's my first/second stab at it: Some fluffy monsters wearing sunglasses, for an assignment in Lifestyles where we were working to incorporate photographed accessories with out illustration styles. I like where it's going but it's not quite there yet; in the future I think I'm going to try working with dioramas more than digital collage.

More Paper Dolls

For some reason I can now once again access my blog! Here are more weeks of paper dolls, courtesy of Lifestyle Illustration. You might notice that in the Halloween edition, my main-man-model is wearing ladyclothes. This is because Yandy.com is sorely lacking sexy fruit costumes for men! And they said it would be the new big thing. Clearly they didn't think it through!

Papier Dolles

For Lifestyle Illustration we had to draw three different models to dress every week- here are my models, and the first week's dressings. The clothes were from someplacesomewhere~

For a class I took of which I do not know the name, we got to pick our assignment- basically take something not made-up, and do 5 illustrations about it. Since I'm on the internet all the time I read a lot of articles and lists about interesting things, and one that I came across was online dating. No, not match.com, but something a tad more interesting. I can't really vouch for the legitimacy of any of these websites but I can for sure say it is funny as hell that they even exist. I give you: strange online dating. I picked some of the ones I found most amusing and made some stuffed thingies, which I then turned into sort of ads or posters.

Hand-Lettering Final

This is my final project for my Hand-lettering course- we could do basically whatever we wanted (preferably something involving a brand) as long as we did the text by hand. I had absolutely no idea what to do since the assignment was incredibly vague so I spent a good deal of the semester flailing around, mentally, until my time was dwindling to the last months and I settled on Forever 21, the store where I spend all of my money. I designed some tags for their different clothing lines and a new bag design. It doesn't seem like much work for one semester...we only had 3 minor assignments, but I guess in Germany that's how they roll.

"Er"

For my first German blog post: ER. Done for my Kalligrafie (aka hand lettering course), we were to come up with five potential new book covers for Franz Kafka's "Er." What is Er about? I'll never know, cause I looked and couldn't find anything, and I can't read German. But here are 4 of my covers.

Smocking

If there was one thing I learned during Explored Stitch with Mary, (actually I learned a lot) it was that I loooooove smocking; smocking is when fabric is pleated and then embroidered on top of to create elasticity without elastic. The modern, industrial equivalent is pleating the fabric then sewing elastic onto the pleats.
For my final assignment I decided to take smocking, which historically was used on clothing, and use it to sculpt a form, rather than letting the smocking conform to a body. I used linen (the fabric of choice for a serf's smock) and created a giraffe.