I have continued to work on my Lyceum series and I can honestly say that I am happy with the way that it is coming along. Sometimes when you have an idea and you put it into play it does not turn out as magnificent as you expected it to. I went with the idea of adding texture into some of my silhouetted figures as I had planned and was happy with the result.

Lyceum

I am doing a lyceum poster with my old ink figure drawings from drawing 2 class. I also plan on using my violin as a reference photo or as the actual poster for one of the posters. Another idea I really want to put into play is getting dancers to do something with a flowing type of fabric and use a slow shutter speed to capture some motion photos for one of the posters. I am really looking forward to being able to use some of my photography with my design work as well for this particular project.


I also photographed my first wedding not too long ago. It was definitely a lot of work but it paid off and was a beautiful day so I got some great photos!

Over the past weekend I did my first bridal shoot. I was very pleased with the outcome. This weekend I will be shooting the same girls wedding for my portfolio. I offered to do it for free because I knew no one was going to hire someone to shoot a wedding who didn't have experience already doing so.

I am looking forward to progressing into the next project and have been looking at app designs to study them. One I particularly like the simplicity of and works well just by using typography is the vine app. 

I have continued to work steadily on my candyland invitations and spy novels. Due dates are coming up and I must stay on my toes! This semester is definitely a challenging one. I am enjoying my projects though so I cannot complain. I did a maternity shoot this past weekend and had quite a bit of fun with it. Using the internet to gather inspiration we found some cool photos to use to base our shots off of.


I ordered a Wacom Inkling pen over the weekend and I am eagerly awaiting its arrival in the mail. I am excited to try it out.

After plenty of contemplating and lots of debating I decided to go with a different route for my invitations project for my typography two class. I did not make this decision on a whim however as it would mean starting the project over. I really did not have a lot of the resources I needed in order to do the ballet invitations the way I wanted to. I did and do however have plenty of resources and references for doing a Candyland themed birthday party invitation for this project.

I have a bit of an obsession with Candyland I guess you could say. It ranks up there with Hello Kitty and Sailor Moon in the fond memories of my childhood that I honestly do not think that I will ever grow out of. Maybe it is my obsession with bright and fun colors that makes me love Candyland themed things. I do not really have an obsession with actual candy I just think it is all so pretty to look at. This inspired me over the summer to do a candyland themed photo shoot.

I have to say it was an ultimate success. I made a scene that looked like you were actually walking into the world of Candyland for my shoot. With spray paint galore I sprayed pinks, blues, and purples all over bags of stuffing I purchased and sprawled it across the ground to look as if I were walking in a world with ground covered with cotton candy. Giant lollipops and gum drops surrounded me.

When thinking of what else I could do my invitations for for this project it occurred to me: Why not do Candyland? I mean after all I worked so hard on making my vision come true for the photoshoot...I had all the references I needed....why not make it happen?

And if you don't have any reasons not to do something, I'd say that's a pretty good reason to go for it.

My buttons are going to consist of swirls as if they are lollipops, my type looks as if it is candy striped. I am vectoring out a photograph for the cover of the invitation now which will be the most time consuming part of the project but once that is out of the way I am pretty much in the clear. Although time is short I do not regret making this decision and it was one I was happy to make.

Making progress

I took some reference photos for my spy novel series this weekend to start vectoring out. The first book is called "I'd tell you I love you but then I'd have to Kill You". For that one I am illustrating a mysterious teenager (sun glasses/spy glasses) shhing somebody and in the reflection in her sunglasses you can see the silhouette of a young man. I thought that was pretty straight forward and spy novel-esque.

Today I also did a shoot for a lady as an anniversary gift to her husband. We did a nerdy pin up look using a nintendo as props. I also took some of their baby for her to give to them and she was such a ham. She was the first baby that I have really photographed so I couldn't get over how cute they were. 

I am doing my invitations project for a fictitious ballet recital. I plan on making the invitation look like a jewelry music box that has a ballerina on the inside when you open it. Here are some photographic references that I will be vectoring out in addition to a ballerina jewelry box as well as ballet slippers.

I also have decided on a direction for my spy novel series. I plan on doing the Gallagher Girls because it is about teenage girls who go to a school that is actually for spies. It has super cheesy titles such as "I'd Tell You I Love You but Then I'd have to Kill you" "Cross my Heart and Hope to Spy"

I wanted to be able to have a little more fun with this series than you can with most spy novels because they are so serious. Because mine have such cheesy titles and the target audience I have a little more lee way.