A Couple Projects

I know s been a while since I last posted. Life Happens you know. Just thought I would share a couple of my most recent projects. The first two images are my new business cards. The third image is a Mandala I created and then used my art markers to color it in.

It's Been A While

I have been slacking and I know it. So sorry for those who come by to see something new. I do have a few things to post that I have done. I have several projects finished but I am only going to post the three I did this week. If I post all of them this post would be 2 pages long...LOL

For those of you that don't already know, Gunner is a daddy to 9 puppies. Dee Dee gave birth on Jan 1 2009. She had 10 but lost 1 pup. They are adorable and an image of a couple of them is posted below in a layout I made.

The first one we were to do a characature of ourself along with 3 items that help define who we are. The second one is the horse I did for the first one and I thought he was cute so I shared a larger image of him. The third image is a poster. We were to draw a zoo animal and I chose the Indian Rhino. Once drawn I took him into illustrator and modified him to what you see in the image.

Friday Full of Ice

Last night brought about some freezing rain. We were prepared for anything, so we thought. We survived the night without losing power only to lose it at 1:30 today. The kerosene heater ended up needing a new wick and I was refusing to go out in the weather to find one for it. We did have the stovetop and a small camp heater going and it managed to stay about 65 in here with that. At about 5 I decided it would only get colder in here as the night came so I ventured out into this icy world cautiously. Once I retrieved everything I felt we needed to make it through the night my husband phones me (at 5:30) to tell me they got the power back on. Looks like we will be ready if it goes out again though as we are expecting some snow to fall on top of the ice.

It just amazes me how beautiful and how deadly the ice can be. Today, I took the beauty and captured it. Here are a couple of shots I thought I would share. Have a wonderful and safe holiday season everyone.

Coat of Arms

I finally finished this project. I stayed up until 2 am last night working on it. I managed to make my computer groan a bit with the sheer size of the file though. I am fairly happy with the final result though. Tomorrow is the last day of the term and then 2 weeks off for the holidays. I checked and noticed, to my delight, that I was on the deans list and hopefully will be so again this term. I checked with all of my teachers and so far I believe it will be 4 A's :)

We had a bit of snow last night along with some wind. I think we ended up with around 5 inches on the ground. We are again under a winter weather advisory until Friday night. They are calling for freezing rain and snow. Personally I would prefer that it all be snow, keep the rain away as it makes for terrible driving conditions. This morning the drive to work wasn't all to bad as 2 of the 3 counties I drive through actually plowed the roads. I did, however manage to find some black ice across a bridge and found myself sideways in the middle of US 30. Two slides, once left then once right and I was back on track again. Others weren't so lucky to have come out of that without wrecking though. On my way home I noticed several cars had indeed landed in the median or off into the ditch. Some were unfortunate enough to nail the guardrail too. I am just so glad I was being watched over today.

We will be going to Kentucky for Christmas and from there to my Mother's. I am ready for a break from the normal routine around here. I have the laptop ready for the trip and will be emptying the camera cards as well. We will be leaving Monday morning and returning home the following or Monday. Now on to posting my latest, the Coat of Arms created for Typography II and for my dear husband.

Ending The Second Term This Week

WOW ! Where has the time gone? It seems like it wasn't long ago I began this adventure. I am still uncertain as to where it will take me but I am wandering my way through it all just the same. After christmas brings 4 new classes: Comprehensive Illustration, Electronic Drawing, Web Development with HTML, and Human Relations in the Workplace.

I am a bit behind in posting a few assignments I know. I just finished my final assignment for Design & Color tonight. I am still working on my Coat of Arms project though. Hoping to get most of it finished tonight though.

This first set of images are from Typography II. We were to create Salsa labels. This is where the pepper from my earlier post emerged from actually. The desire to create more realistic vegetables than what is in these labels.

The next set of images are from Design & Color. The first three are: Simple Figure Ground, Figure Ground Reversal, and Ambiguous Figure Ground.

This next set of three images are: Closure, Contrast, and Anomaly.

Thought I would share a little

I did this tonight in Illustrator. I was amazed at how real the final product looks. I have to admit, this program is amazing. It took a while but wow was it ever worth the effort.  Layers Magazine is where I got the tutorial used for this project: Beginner’s Guide to the Mesh Tool. If you have Illustrator I suggest you give this tutorial a try.

Final Stipple Drawing

I have finished my stipple drawing today. I am quite pleased with the final result. On to the next project now I suppose.

 

Two More Days Work

Here are two more days work to the image. I don't have much more to do but had to quit for the night. I was beginning to get a headache. The first image is day 4 and the second image is day 5. I work on this in the morning before classes begin. After eating lunch I work on it some more and then in class I do more work on it. Tonight I have spent about 3 hours on it to get it where Day 5 is right now. I think there needs to be a little tweaking on the shading near the upper shoulder. Then the only thing remaining will be the black which is part of the barn.

Two More Steps

Here are two more steps to the stippling project we are working on. I think that it's turning out quite nicely. The first image is the second day and the third image is the third day, today.

Drawing Project

Hello everyone. We are starting a new project in drawing class this week. We are doing stippling images with our pens. The images are in grey scale and enlarged to an 8 x 10 which I centered on my 11 x 14 sheet of Bristol Board, which is an acid free archival quality Vellum heavy paper. Knowing that most of my readers think of Vellum as a scrapping supply, this is nothing like what we would normally think of vellum as. This is a cotton paper and not the transparent waxy type you may be thinking of. I have started this drawing as I am sure you all know I have. LOL Posted below are the images I began with, first the one in color and then the image changed to grey scale. The last image is what I have completed so far on this project. I worked four hours on this so far and believe there are many more hours to follow to the completed image. We are to do all of the shading with the dots. So far I think it's turning out pretty good.

Friday. . .

It's Friday and it has been a cool damp day all day long. My knee has been reminding me of this the entire day. It is an extremely good thing that they have invented pain killers such as Advil and Tylenol. My day would certainly be much longer without them. LOL

I am posting the sketch we finished in drawing today. We had to draw our hand holding something. Let's just say that by the end of class yesterday my hand had fallen asleep. Thank heaven for digital cameras, as I snapped a shot of it for reference later.

A Sketch of a Female Mannequin

On Friday the drawing teacher set out some mannequins for the class to draw. I don't think my finished product turned out too badly. I had most of it marked in during class and finished working on it that evening and finally finished it up this morning. The first image is what I took with my phone, guess I need to start taking one of my cameras to school with me. I think I made the frame a bit longer than the mannequin seen here but it seems to look ok.

I think I will be working some more on my third poster later on tonight and tomorrow. I also need to get a start on my Informative paper. I also need to read some of my Typography book and make some flash cards to help me learn the parts of the fonts. He will be giving us a test on these later on, so I need to quiz myself so I don't miss anything on this next test...LOL

Some Of My Sketches

This sketch was inspired by some photos sent to me by my niece. It makes a really great layout. Feel free to use this sketch for your own personal use. Do not upload it to any forums for sharing or claim it as your own.

Here is one sketch that just came to me. It actually makes a really nice layout. The possibilities are endless. Feel free to use this sketch for your own personal use. Do not upload it to any forums for sharing or claim it as your own.

This sketch was inspired by the new site design at Kindred Creations. It just inspired me so much that I had to make a sketch for my layouts. Feel free to use this sketch for your own personal use. Do not upload it to any forums for sharing or claim it as your own.