photo-a-day 3/30

Today when going to Samurai bento I passed this window, and it reminded me that on a nice sunny afternoon I took a photo of its display:

I was really hoping the reflections of light and objects in the window would add complexity to something that seemed so simple as a row of sake bottles on a wooden shelf.  I'm big on texture and depth in photos, and I hope this captures both.

photo-a-day 2/30

I don't like photos of me, mostly because I don't feel I am very photogenic:

This is maybe 2 or 3 years old, soon after I received my digital camera.  Looking through some of the earlier photos with this camera I was still getting used to the new technology.  It handles way differently from the old point and click that I was using and I will post some of those photos within this series as well.

photo-a-day 1/30

So I've decided to post a photo a day for 30 days.  These will be culled from multiple sources, including old prints, my digital camera, and my iphone.  Here is 1/30:

This is a bench in Director's Park in downtown Portland.  The sun was hiding a lot the day I took this, but I found myself on a little walk during a break from the salt mines, when the sun was as good as it would get  (a lot of tall buildings surround this park and give limited time for the sun to actually be good to my liking) to take this with my iphone.

More Skool Werk

Here is the third project for my Intro to Computer Graphics class.  There was an issue of transferring it from InDesign 1 to InDesign 5.  Again I used the stripped down color scheme of the poster but added a bit of grey for contrast:

Business Card

Just dropped this off at the printer on Thursday:

 Front

Back

Skool work...

Here are the two projects for my intro to computer graphics that made it up onto the wall at school:

 There was a certain number of objectives that I had to achieve for each of these.  The above was done entirely in illustrator.  I concentrated on using only a triadic color scheme due to the simplicity of the bird's coloring.

This project was done in photoshop.  I had to have at least ten images for this project, which for me felt a little too much and I would have had it a little more stripped down at points.  For the poster I ignored the triadic color scheme dropping the yellow for something a little more bold.

Mermaid Meat

I had a show a little while back, I think right before I started classes.
Again there were pretty girls, as I tend the female form over the male, but the main focus was Japanese goblins, or Yokai.  A secondary focus was kimonos and textile and the patterns they can create.  I mixed in some pop references for a little spice.
These scans are taken from prints and an advertisement card (not of my design, but Ximena of Skeleton Key Tattoo):

( Flyer for show)

 Ohaguro-bettari

 for Kuniyoshi

 Umi-Bozu for Hokusai

 Rokuro-kubi

 Mermaid Meat

Kitsuni