My final illustration for the They Draw and Cook recipe. I'm not entirely happy with it. Some things didn't turn out as well as I'd planned, so I'll definitely be making changes to it before I submit it to the website.

Book Cover Final

My final version of the first exercise in GD II. I think it came out pretty well. The colors (especially the yellow) are a lot less intense and obnoxious in print, but the photos also came out less white, unfortunately. 

I also found out the dates of Junior Review today: March 31st and April 1st. Let the countdown begin. 

Our second exercise is to design a poster for Junior Review. I've been waiting for this project since I was a freshman and I looked at all of the posters hung in the hallway of the Art Building. I already have a few ideas, but I'm going to do some brainstorming and sketching this weekend. My final illustration for problem 1 is due Monday, so I'll also be posting that soon if I get a chance to scan it before I turn it in. 

Some rough sketches of some of the ideas for Problem 1 for GD II. I'm going to Lucky Penny Creamery to make cheese on February 11. It should be a good time and I hope I can get some good pictures.

My three really rough concepts for my book cover project. I like how the first one turned out, but the second one is a stronger concept, so I'm going to develop it more over the weekend. I need to do some photography for it because the crappy low-res image is just to have something there at the moment.

Just Keep Swimming...

Week 2 is almost over and I'm plugging along on my projects for GD and Illustration. They're all still pretty much in the sketch/thumbnail/general idea stage, but I'm feeling ok.

For GD I have to create book cover about one of my classmates. I'm doing mine on Erin and I interviewed her to get some sweet insight into her life. She's really into sports, so that's where I originally headed with my concept. The other day, though, she told me about how she was a model for Little Tikes when she was little and actually got onto one of the boxes. Her fame was short-lived, though. She was almost famous. So that's where I'm taking my concept now; I want to focus on her stint as a Little Tikes model. Gretchen is ok with it, but still wants me to come up with an alternative in case it doesn't work out. We have three concepts due in class tomorrow, so I'll post them when I get them finished.

For Illustration I've narrowed down my recipe to basically one main idea that Kara helped me come up with: Sci-Fi Salad. It's a fun little tongue-in-cheek recipe that should be fun to illustrate. I want to take inspiration from vintage sci-fi novels and tv shows—especially for type ideas. I showed some of my thumbnails to Doug today and he thinks the idea is good, but it needs something more to make the concept stronger. He wants me to work on it, but keep working on one or two other ideas as well just as backups. I'm going to play around with recipes for Parisian Crepes and Jewish Grandmother Chicken Soup. Salli Swindel and Nate Padavik (the siblings that started They Draw and Cook) are coming to our class on Monday to look at what we're working on. I need to bust my ass this weekend to have something good to show them.

Day 2 and I'm already stressed

It's only day two of the semester and I'm already feeling stressed. So, basically, I'm feeling normal. 

This blog is a place for all of my VCD-realted thoughts, ideas, sketches, etc. I'll also try to post screenshots/photos of my in-progress projects as well as the finals. 

At the moment I'm working on brainstorming ideas for my first Illustration II problem. A recipe illustration for the website They Draw and Cook. Doug challenged us to come up with a recipe that's out of the ordinary and might not necessarily be food. I'm tossing around the following ideas: Recipe for Disaster, Recipe for a Good Relationship, Mom's Chicken Soup Cold Cure, and Sci Fi Salad. I only have the basic idea of each one worked out and I've done a little bit of visual research. Hopefully Doug can help steer me in the right direction tomorrow in class, so we'll se what he thinks.