Portfolio for class

Today I last-minute printed my portfolio stuff for Jaime's class. I took longer than anticipated to leave the house thanks to being distracted by Mad Men.

There was a tiny complication at the print shop due to language barriers but things worked out. I accidentally printed the postcard mailer too big because I forgot to double check the template I made, but it looks alright anyways. The prints aren't the best quality and my colors shifted some but altogether, the work looks pretty good.

I feel a bit narcissistic with having my face all over my stuff and it's strange to present my work under such a coherent brand. The complete package consists of the printed portfolio in this black velcro box, an oversized postcard mailer, an envelope containing mini prints, stickers and a business card, and a leave behind novelty package containing 3 buttons and some more stickers. Despite the print quality, I'm happy overall.

BASIL

Last semester in Game Illustration, I created a character, Basil the red panda. Basil ended up as the star of the final project, a side scrolling flash game built in an incredibly frustrating and broken engine. Despite the struggles, I had alot of fun with it, and the end result wasn't too bad, all things considered. 

mockup screenshot with partial UI and character sketch in environment

full color character concept 

finished sprite sheet of Basil

 

attempt at a finished illustration, in progress

input and editing from +Seth Rutledge. Thanks, Seth!

decided on a landscape composition in the end

Been a while

I haven't done an update in a while. Been pretty busy with school and life things- so much going on. This semester, classes are focused on self marketing and working with art directors on specific projects, so useful assignments for once. In the self marketing class, we have to put together a professional portfolio as well as make business cards. As I already had cards made last summer, I was given an alternative assignment- a novelty leave behind. This is the mockup for my novelty item, a pouch of buttons to go with the business cards.

In the other class with art directors, the first project was a decorative postage stamp led by illustrator Nancy Stahl. They were meant to be with a cause or charity in mind and I went with food/seed diversity to promote eating a variety of fruits and vegetables rather than relying on Monsanto sanctioned single species produce.
I'm not sure how well that comes across in the finished piece, but I'm happy with the art part of the project. (Attached is a crappy lo-res version until I find my flash drive, it has since been improved)

 
In other news, ECCC 2013 is rapidly approaching. I am scrambling to make a few new pieces for prints. I do have buttons and cards this time around, as well as quite a few artist trading cards to sell. My tablemate +Karla Monterrosa just booked us a room at the Green Tortoise Hostel, and if all goes in our favor, we'll have a private room without the hassle of disturbing others or being disturbed- sleep is important! We'll be there under the guise of Lionfish Republic once again and you can find us at booth K-23/24.

new hovernote banner

I made a new banner for the hovernote Facebook page. Speaking of, it's on version 1.3 now and includes exciting features like an improved settings panel, autosaving and recent notes list, and automatic bullets for making lists. Notes can also be collapsed to an icon for quickly hiding and bringing back notes without having to use the notification panel.

And in context:

On the note of Android, I also recently got a Nexus 7 tablet and it's really exciting and will save me from lugging my laptop around on days I don't really need to. Convenient too, since my phone's earpiece decided to stop working about a week ago, defeating just about all of the purpose of having a phone- at least the screen didn't break or anything...

Resume

Working on my resume again. It's starting to look like something. The difficulty has been settling on one style to sell myself with. Now that I got the business cards out of the way, I have a launching point for the resume and possible web identities to match.

On that note, I made a separate Tumblr for my art portfolio and I may end up pointing my domain at that unless I figure out something else.

Edit: Finally finished with it and I think it looks great.

Business Cards!

Right now, I'm working out a business card design which can hopefully be tied into resume and website. I also have to throw together a few signs for the Summer Festival which is in a few days!

I placed an order for 1000 business cards for 18 bucks. Really excited for this. 

Summer Festival

I also finished the Summer Festival flyers/posters. We're using Jukebox Print because they're both local and affordable for the quality. Got back the flyers and I'm impressed, placing poster order on Monday during business hours.

Posters came back and they look fantastic. Onto distribution! Definitely a pleasure working with Jukebox. 

Banner for Hovernote

Here's the market banner for hovernote. I think it's still a bit rough, but definitely better than alot of what else I've seen on Google Play. Hopefully this helps the app to get noticed more.
New update releasing soon adding a whole bunch of functionality like a working file browser and autosave. Quick layout in illustrator using ICS blue (#33B5E5) and the Android font Roboto. 

In other news, I'm working on my resume, mainly content right now. Hopefully tomorrow I can make it look fancy and appealing. I got my work permit and my social insurance number and I'm almost ready for the job market.

Hovernote Icon

So this is the launcher/market icon I made for my boyfriend's Android app hovernote available for download on Google Play. It's a floating notepad app that sits on top of other fullscreen apps and lets you jot things down without having to interrupt your workflow. You can store the notes as notifications, or share them to other apps like Dropbox.

Made in Illustrator

The fruit of my labor. Concept and design work for my friend Vicky's short film/ online interactive project she's pitching on Tuesday. This is the front.

And the back of the card. 

Here's a thing.
My roomie's cat Ether.

Quintipus Poster Mockup

This is a poster I put together for my friend's film project.