Truculent, from The November Project

I gave myself a little challenge for this month: a drawing a day, based on a "word of the day" option on dictionary.com
Partially to stave off that horrible artist's block I had all summer, and partially to have just one thing a day that isn't class work - it will be a good rest for my brain.

I've already done two, but this is my best one.
The other is the usual big-eyed, emotionless face that I seem to be so good at.

The word for November 2nd was TRUCULENT

truculent

\TRUCK-yuh-luhnt\ , adjective;

1.Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous.

2.Cruel; destructive; ruthless.

Call me crazy, but I just REALLY wanted to draw creepy crows.

Better yet: this baby is a vector, so I can make it whatever size I want.
I forgot over the summer just how much I loved that about illustrator files.

Drawing for Design - Project 1

This is quite possibly the only project I've ever had that nearly gave me hypothermia.
We had to go out over our October reading week and draw 20 sketches of a building of our choice: easier said than done when the weather that week decided to dip into the minuses, with wind!

I drew the Church of the Holy Trinity. It's this adorable little church jammed in between the Eaton Centre and the Mariott hotel downtown.

We then took those 20 sketches, chose at least 3, and combined them to make abstract compositions as the final piece.

There are only a few sketches included here, but they're my favorites.
They're also not the ones I used for the actual composition: the general consensus was that the one-point perspective drawings I had done were better suited to be combined than the two or three-point perspectives.

Stone Photography

It's sad that I can't remember what kinds of stone these are.
All I remember is being on a tour of Waterloo U with Miranda, in the Geology department, and desperately having to stop to photograph them.

It's things like these that make me miss science... and then I think about it and realize I'm much happier taking pictures of them than studying or digging at them!

I'm DYING for a chance to use some of these in a project.
The right topic just hasn't come up yet!

Pink Photography

Some nice potted Mums and some naturally hot pink leaves.
Talk about a successful day.
The bushes with pink leaves are all over the place in North York.

WARNING: the browser doesn't do the colour of these babies justice.

Sweet Photography

Remember the old cake project?
I found some of the original photos today and decided that some of them were too pretty not to post by themselves.

One is the rows upon rows of delicious little cakes from La Patisserie Cigogne, and the other is the delightful icing on a mango cupcake from the Cupcake Shoppe.

This is making me hungry all over again...

Communication Design 2 - Project 1

After a long summer of nothing I have four posters to put up.
For Communication Design 2 this year we were put in charge of picking a Canadian festival and designing a system of posters, tickets, and brochures to advertise it.
The poster project is the largest: we had to make 3 completely different versions (one literal, one abstract, and one symbolic) and then pick ONE of those 3 to carry on into the later parts of the project.

Sadly one of the posters I (and apparently a bunch of my other classmates) loved the most was outright shot down by my professor because of personal tastes. I'll post it anyway because I loved it and will mourn its passing.
(The fourth poster is the unfortunate reject)

I chose to use the trumpet player and continue the further designs for this class around him.
You'll see them soon!

Information Design 1 - Project 3

After a very long wait I finally realized I was missing some projects on here!

This is the final project from my Information Design course.
We were asked to spend at least two weeks (starting on our spring break) recording our consumption of something (or several things). Some people picked their consumption of water (taking showers, drinking water, washing hands, etc.), others picked food.
I on the other hand wanted to do something that would be fun at the same time, and since I had an entire week off when we started I picked my consumption of video games: specifically a game called Final Fantasy XII, which I had recently bought.

Homework is so much more fun when it involves video games.

The idea behind the final project was to pick an interesting section of the data we collected and create some sort of graphic to display this information - then tie it in with other aspects of our lives at the time/to other data.
Since I was looking at one week of my life, I included time spent on sleep, in class, homework, other games, and the specific video game.

It took forever to get the design to something I enjoyed.
Magic happened when I found the official game art (that multicolored ink drawing above the title). I used all the colors from that image for the rest of the design.

And no, I don't usually spend more time playing games than working...!
Just this particular week!