To Throw It Out There

I just wanted to let anyone know, if you'd like feel free to check out the new links I have at the side of my page now.  I've been working to better my portfolio and would really love critiques from everyone.  Also, I have a new Behance and LinkedIn account and am looking for people who do as well.  Thanks guys :]

{LinkedIn Profile}

{Behance Profile}

{Carbonmade Portfolio}

Graphic Design and Typography

So I guess today instead of going right into a showing more of my indesign drawings I'm gonna show some of my designs with type.  Remember, these are from my old classes, so really, not very good.  Still fun to look back to and see how far it has come.

My recreation of George Owell's 1984.  I made it the right
dimensions to fit over my copy of the book. :]

Design for a band called Underoath, for the song, "It's Dangerous
Business Walking Out of your Front Door."  Long title, I know,
but it's an AMAZING song.  This is also back in my Bleeding
Cowboys font days, before everyone and their parents started
using the type too hahah,

Second poster Design for the same song.  This one actually
won me an reward out of the department at school.  I got an
amazing typography book out of it called,
"Advertising Design and Typography" by Alex W. White.

In Flames song called "Cloud Connected."  Beautiful lyrics to an
awesome metal song.  Love, love, love!

 I'll be showing more of my art soon. :D  Just wanted to make a quick post since everything has been SOOO crazy lately and I haven't been table to.  Hope you enjoy!  Let me know what you think of it.

Progression of my Favorite Illustrator Drawing I've done

So I decided to keep showing my older work for now so that my blog doesn't jump back and fourth between what I've been doing recently and what I have done before.

So for anyone that doesn't know Illustrator, the program I used for this drawing is basically for graphic design purposes mostly.  It's a vector based program which means no matter how much you zoom in and down you're not going to lose quality of the images because everything is done with numbers.  So for instance if you zoom in on this photo in photoshop or a regular image viewing program, you're going to get pixelation to the image and especially if you save over an image and resize it it's never going to be in as good of quality as the first one no matter how high the resolution you save it in (always thought that was interesting.)

So anyways this program I used to draw is basically as if I were to cut out all different little sequencing colors of paper layer them and glue them down...for hours and hours and hours.  And, well, quicker than at least real life doing it.  Usually you can easily start with an under-layer of a photograph so it's easy to pick up the colors and the shapes.  

Here's how I did. :D

Initial image

Progression.  You can tell it's done with small shapes a lot here.
You can also see where the new things are going to be drawn
like the flowers on my wrist for instance. 

Example of the progression I made.  I had initially wanted to draw
the bg and my friend Erin in the black dress but I ran out of time for it.

Final product

The ugly side of the drawing.  Kinda weird to see ALLLL
of the lines that went in to do even just this little part of the picture.  Basically this is an
image of every stroke I made to make all of the little graphic shapes to
make the final product sans any color.

Ahh, so proud of this drawing.  I still have the original illustrator file and sometime when I get the free time I want to be able to draw the whole thing so I don't have the boring background and so I can get Erin in there as well.  Someday hopefully :D

Art

I've already been asked why I didn't post my artwork first off in this thing.  SO I guess here we go?  Let the critiquing begin :]

Only decently recent thing I'm gonna show now.
Was part of an campaign I did for Starbucks, this was
a web banner I decided to make for Intro to Ad.
Click to see the animation.

You'll see I LOVE photography :]

First try ever at a magazine layout, right side supposed
to be designed as if it was an article on us as designers

Right side
The small photos at the bottom is all my work as well

The first photo manipulation I ever made.  Did a decent job
for not being taught but just figuring it out by myself :]

Back from Community College as well.
We had to design a cd cover for a band as you can probably
guess my Associates Degree is pretty much Graphic Design.
Looking back there's SO much I should do to improve this.

Well that's all I'm going to post now, especially since I don't have much more work to show!  Here's an idea though on what I do for my art.  Hope you enjoy some :]

First Post

Well I am totally new to blogging and have never even thought about doing it before.  I think I am looking at it in a way of being able to take some of the stress out of all the things I need to do with school.  So here I am!

I think one of the things I want to be able to do with this blog is to show all of the things I really enjoy about advertising, and to show some of the ads that I think show what my style is and what I enjoy.  I'm going to want to show some of the progression of my own ads and see if I can get any feedback from anyone on them.  Any critique is totally necessary so please just let me know, it helps me to grow as an advertising designer which is my own dream. Keep me guessing, keep me working, and keep me dreaming.  :D

Example: The Economist Ad
Link : Photoshop exmples website