Drawing for Design - Project 3

Another long-awaited project has been finished!
Drawing for Design is over, and I'm going to miss it - but this project was a pretty spectacular parting gift.

Instead of drawing objects like we have been the rest of term we had to pick one of our favorite typefaces, choose a letter combination that makes a new sound when you speak it (like kh, or ch, etc.) and combine the two letters to make a new symbol.
The goal was to make the new symbol readable, and fit in with the original design of the typeface.

I chose QU
Going to be doing this again for sure!

Christmas Tree

I whipped this up for mom for invitations to a Christmas Party.
You're going to be seeing a lot of this drawing style from now on - I LOVE it.

Communication Design 2 - Project 3

Part 3 of the Festival Identity projects in Communication Design: the infamous festival brochure.

I used similar images in this to match up with the poster.
But instead of the gent playing the trumpet there are: a saxophone player, upright bass player, and trombone player. It gets boring having the same images on everything. I wanted to have a little fun and see if I could do more guys in that style.

I have to say the saxophone player is my favorite part of this entire thing.

The booklet is pretty small: take a regular sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper, fold it in half, and you have the size of this pamphlet. It's double-sided, so when you flip it upside down you get the french portions.

Once again the internet has destroyed the colours of the poor image. That saxophone is really a nice VIBRANT gold yellow, and the browns are MUCH richer in real life.
The schedule, I realize now, has a bit of a salt and pepper issue (the bold is too bold - it looks like someone literally sprinkled pepper) but at the same time it really does highlight the concert headliners.

Felicitous, from the November Project

She has absolutely nothing to do with the word assigned to her. But I couldn't care less.
She was inspired by it, and that's all that counts.

I had so much fun looking at flapper dresses to put her in!
Google. How would I EVER survive without your image search option?

She makes me giggle.

Drawing for Design - Project 2

Another one bites the dust.
The apples from the previous post are some of the process work leading up to this project.
We had to take the fruit or veggie we drew in class and continue the sketching process at home. When we found three styles we liked we had to do a series of sketches as we either ate or cut apart the fruit.

Out of the three styles we had to pick our favorite, and choose four of the sketches to show the progression. One poor guy ate something silly like ten apples before he got all the sketches he wanted.

A prelude of things to come

Since it will be a while until I post the next bunch of finished projects I thought I should tide you over with some of the latest work from my Drawing for Design class.
We've since moved on from buildings and geometric shapes to organic shapes.
For the past couple of classes we've been doing a lot of sketching of fruits and vegetables - we had our choice of which kind. The only rule was that there had to be two of the same kind, so we could see some variation.
Pretty funny: you could tell which of the students in the class had to live off meal plans or on tiny grocery allowances - we all brought things to eat after class was over! Needless to say the small army of apples and bananas was decimated before the 4 hours were up.

We started off with realistic sketches, and moved on to more abstract representations as time wore on (or as you started to get bored of pencils)

Sommelier, from the November Project

Another November project piece.
I tried to do something really different than my usual style, and you know... I really like her.
You'll probably see more of this kind of illustration in the future!

sommelier

\suhm-uhl-YEY; Fr. saw-muh-LYEY\ , noun;

1. A restaurant employee who orders and maintains the wines sold in the restaurant and usually has extensive knowledge about wine and food pairings.