FINAL PORTFOLIO - 88 hours of included projects.
1. Wick Fowler, 2-alarm chili.
Project consisted of three 2 color newspaper adverts, three posters, one gif banner, and label design.
I really just wanted to do something fun for this one. I took Rusty’s ‘illustration bait’ thinking I could do something pretty fast and nimble since it was the beginning of the semester. OH HOW FOOLISH I WAS. As fun as the pinups were to do, they took ages due to mostly lack of focus. I estimated that each figure took five hours, photography an hour. The label took about two. Setting up the two color scheme for the newspaper added another hour. Then just designing the adds and posters roughly 4 hours. The gif took about an hour. Making the project time . Likely just a little over 24 hours of work. Two over the 22 we were given. Did I get any faster?
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2. Book Cover Project
Why did I pick the great gatsby? I hate that book. Oh wait, it was because I did pride and prejudice in illustration. Oh.
At least Gatsby is an attractive man. I think this project was kept mostly under control. I was really surprised and flattered (and mildly horrified) when you suggested that I should try to imitate Leyendecker, Rusty. So much so that I even bothered to do several studies of his work to get the feel down before doing the real thing. Again, I took the ‘illustration bait’ and dug myself a hole. Thankfully, however, this project was during break meaning I finished the illustration in record time within the comfort of my own home back in St. Louis. The illustration took about five hours (not including the time spent doing studies). 8 hours was spent on the rest of the design for this project. Meaning that roughly 13 total hours was spent on the project, three hours less than the 16 hours budgeted for us. If you’d like to see more posts related to this project, click the ‘greatgatsbyproject’ tag beneath the post linked. Also, it’s worth mentioning that I’m still not happy with the illustration.
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3. Black History Month
I whipped this one out very fast. I did a sketch for the illustration within about twenty minutes with the help of a few photo references and did the vector in less than two hours. Rusty did aid me in solidifying the type. It took about six hours, three less than the 9 budgeted for us. Hey, I am getting faster!
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4. Society of illustrators
Nevermind. I lied. I slowed down again. The budget for this project was at least 24, far over the given budget of 16. This was due to me getting frustrated with the colors of my illustration. The pencil work didn’t take very long at all. I’m still unsatisfied with the tree. The lotus on the opposite side took 1/8 the time that the tree did. Agh. Laying out the text didn’t take very long at all. Also, a small explanation..there’s a fairy in the lotus on the informational side of the mailer, a suggestion that the glowing flowers on the opposite side are caused by the same being.
Yeah. I’m cheesy. I like fairies. I clapped during Peter Pan.
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5. Drink Project
A made up beverage called ‘Hades Tea’. Yeah I’m being corny with myth/fantasy what have you again. For those of you who don’t know, Hades (pluto/lord of the underworld in greek myth), tempted persephone, a goddess, with a pomegranate. By eating its seeds, she pretty much entered into a contract to become his wife and queen of the underworld. EDGY, HUH? Because edgy people love tea and that’s what I was going for. Wanted a traditional looking label (one that has a framing mechanism) that seemed a little bit different. A photography/illustration mix. I would say the project took 24 hours with assemblage/test printing included. Which is still considerably less than the 30+ given.
The magazine advertisement was the only thing not approved.
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6. How safe? Food spread
Pomegranates! What a surprise!
Honestly though, this spread was a mess until I just chose to revisit it at the very end of the semester (even though it was one of the first projects given). The trip to the supermarket to get the onions was likely the most time consuming thing for this project. Took about seven hours, 2 less than the 9 budgeted for us.
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PRE-MIDTERM PROJECTS
7. Teton & Yellowstone Summer Excursion Poster
This layout probably took less than 4 hours, and the text layout came very quickly and easily. I don’t have much to say, but I was very fortunate to find a high quality stock provider! It still kind of weirds me out to use graphics that weren’t taken or created by me. Maybe that’s why I do an absurd amount of illustrating.
8. Jazz Poster
I sketched a rough for the illustration in about three minutes immediately after reading the blog post for this assignment. Jazz has always been one of my favorite genres of music (I even posted a playlist). I wanted it to be high energy, but with an image that was bordering on a retro style. The image, removing the times where I got distracted by the internet, took about 5 hours. The text layout probably took another 5. The illustration was flexibile in it’s use due to how easily he could be rotated and still look natural, and this resulted in a lot of playing around. I still wonder if this poster would have looked better horizontal.
9. Detours Spread
I had an IMMENSE amount of trouble with this layout, and I can’t even offer an explanation as to why. Measured out time for this spread was at least ten hours of moving things around, getting frustrated, getting distracted, coming back, and moving things around again. Something clicked towards the end, again, I don’t know why.
10. Forest Fire Awareness
8 hours. The graphics took more than half the time, a surprising 5 hours of photoshop. Discovering a tag line actually took longer than deciding on text layout. Getting these signed for approval went rather fast, and I think I learned the least with these (Granted, they were also one of the last designs approved). I think what I desired most with these was a strong visual impact, which might have been why I spent most of the time for these with the images.
thank you for just hiding in one of my books. You scared me there for a minute.
gif banner for black history month. open in new tab if it doesn’t work.
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Gifbanner for wickfowler.
A whiny entry. Yet again.
Decided not to do a video this time because I look and feel absolutely terrible. Last night I began feeling physically unwell (Aerin, you know). I stayed in Ophelia working till about 9:30 (managed to print two projects). Having not eaten dinner, I hoped getting something into my stomach would help. It didn’t, and I spent the majority of the rest of the night curled up in my extremely uncomfortable centennial hall chair wanting to die. I went to bed after taking medicine in hopes that I could sleep through it after the medicine took effect. It didn’t, so I laid there for even longer.
Upon waking up this morning, the feeling has not subsided. I didn’t go to class and instead made an effort to just sit here and finish a paper (and that’s not really working either).
I’ve had this before and it usually doesn’t continue on this long with not stopping or lessening ldkjfsdlkj. I don’t know what I’m going to do. Perhaps it is best to invest in stronger painkillers.
