Scatter Piece

I scattered a bunch of wrapped candies and painted with various dilutions of india ink to create the greyscale tones. I probably could have done a cleaner job with a pen since I'm still so shaky with a paintbrush, but that wasn't the assignment.

Scatter - India ink on paper

Jenny Saville

For our final Figure Drawing assignment, we copied a work we admire. I selected Prop (1992) by Jenny Saville whose work I absolutely LOVE. This drawing was done in about 45 minutes because I procrastinated so it's rather off. I might go back and fix it when the weather gets nicer.

My version - Vine Charcoal on paper


Prop - Jenny Saville

More Self Portraits

The first is another self portrait project we did in General Drawing in which we drew ourselves in an experimental context to reveal our identity. I chose to draw myself as my favorite graphic novel character Death, from the works of Neil Gaiman. The second is a portrait I drew for Figure Drawing using only tones. So that brings the count to 5 self portraits for 2008.

Ink on paper


Vine Charcoal on paper

Magazine Concept and Design

For our last project in Computer Graphics, we had to come up with a concept for a magazine and create a cover, table of contents, and sample page for it. I created a magazine for type geeks (what I'm becoming) recycling my typography animals. This was a really fun assignment for me since I'm interested in publication design. Again, I used my favorite typefaces Franklin Gothic and the lovely Mrs. Eaves.

Bronx Zoo Brochure

I enjoyed the gridding assignment from ComD so much, I used it again to create my Bronx Zoo brochure for Typography. I created grids from tracing shapes within the animals and then I drew in the lettering. The informational section was hastily thrown together since I ran out of time, but I'm okay with how it looks since I got to use Franklin Gothic again.

Blaxploitation Film Festival Poster Series

So my obsession with blaxploitation films spurred by the LCD album cover assignment spilled over to my Computer Graphics class. The assignment was to create a poster series using imagery to link them. I chose to do mine on a blaxploitation film festival. I drew silhouettes of Shaft, Eddie from Superfly, and Coffy and placed a quote from their respective movies underneath.

Album Cover Assignment

In Light/Color/Design class, we each selected a piece of instrumental music and made a painting based on it. Afterwards, we cropped the painting to create the cover and 6 page inserts for the album art. My song was "Wildcat" by Ratatat. To me, it brings to mind the blaxploitation films of the early 70s so I tried to capture the feel of the movie posters of that genre.

Wildcat


Painting - Ink and Tempera paint on colored paper


Album Cover


Album Art

Alice In Wonderland Play Poster

We did this really interesting assignment in Communication Design in which we made grids based on collages. I traced my favorite shapes from a combination of three different collages. From there, I decided my grid might make a cool poster for an Alice In Wonderland play. This semester, I've really been inspired by the Polish Poster movement so I tried my hand again at hand drawn typography. It turned out really well and I discovered that I really like to draw type. I've also fallen in love with Franklin Gothic, which is the typeface I've used for the newspaper quote and theater information for this poster.

Collages


Grid


Final Poster