A Royal Design

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I decided to task myself with designing some sort of image to be projected onto a wall during my sister’s upcoming Halloween party this Saturday and I came up with this. On the left is the work in progress image while on the right is the finished product.

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Digital Art I project in Illustrator. Basically as this is a “beginner’s” course in digital art my professor is teaching the Adobe programs in a “This is a file. This is how to make a new page. This is the pen tool.” kind of approach, which is extremely annoying to me and the other two VCD students in the class. 

The project so far is to create a character and do something with it (honestly I don’t know. So many people are still creating their characters so I have no idea exactly what the project is at this point). 

My original design is the green monster with the black strokes, created with no background. To make it more interesting I decided to duplicate the character two more times and mix up the colors with a background.

Later this past evening I created another version of the monster with no stroke and a little more detailed, which I actually like a whole lot more. I may try to integrate this idea into the three. Also his name is Gerald (name credit goes to my fiancée who thought he should have a name.)

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Had some fun tonight just chilling and practicing my logo skillz and I decided to brand my fiancée’s Etsy account. Sadly she is thinking about ending her Etsy account as she hasn’t sold anything in the 3 years she’s had the account. If you wanna check out her stuff look up Littlest Accents on Etsy!

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Just a beginning to some “for fun” stuff I’m doing. As baseball season is now in full swing... no pun intended... I decided to choose a player in each position that I like from any team, except I am not doing a Designated Hitter, and the design for the Pitcher is just one particular pitcher, not a starter/reliever/closer. These are two of the handful I’m doing and I’m currently working on a third. 

At second base, on my non-hometown team favorite team is the legendary Dustin Pedroia. Actually I’m quite excited about the Red Sox as my fiancée got tickets to the Red Sox at the Mariners game this summer for a late birthday present!

At catcher we have here the famous Buster Posey. I’ve always liked Buster Posey, and when I was coming up with my list for this for fun project, I considered Joe Mauer for catcher, but he’s been playing 1st base for the past few years, so he’ll be coming up soon in a later finished product.

Currently I’m working on the most awesome 3rd baseman in the league... my hometown team, the Seattle Mariner’s, Kyle Seager. 

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A work in progress...

Last year in Fall quarter I had to do an infographic on a color and I totally bombed the assignment. It was terrible. So in my Portfolio class I am able to do a couple redo’s of past assignments. I decided to start with my “BLUE” infographic. This isn’t done yet, but it is a million times better than the original already. Also it looks absolutely nothing like the original. The original was pretty shitty.

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Redesigned my dad’s business cards today. 

In case anyone is wondering, my dad has been carving ice for a couple decades. I’m not sure exactly how long but I know more than 28 years. Since his beginning he’s actually rebranded his business by himself. Originally his business was called Illustrations in Ice and the color scheme was very 80s/90s with gray, light blue, and pink. A couple years ago he changed his business name to iceworksNW and had me design his logo. His logo was very similar to the one on the business card except the words were standard black, and the “NORTHWEST” was spaced terribly (my early beginnings in graphic design). His business cards also had too much going on. 

Anyways, I’m actually thrilled that he asked me to fix some things with his business in terms of design. I guess you could say he’s my official first client. Too bad I kinda had to do this pro bono...

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Was bored the other night so I created this for my fiancée. Kinda funny though how soon enough her last name won’t be the one in the image... 

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My dad’s most recent business logo was originally designed by me, but that was before I went thru many of my design classes and the logo itself was a little off in terms of spacing. I lost the files so I decided to recreate it today. 

The first version (black text) is the closest to the original design with all black text as well.

The second version (my favorite) is the blue/white text.

The third version, which was created per request of my dad as he wants to put his logo on a black jacket, is with white text (his request was the text to be white). 

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I got into a huge rebranding kind of mood tonight. I swear this is the last time I change my logo...

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Working on some rebranding for a project in my Visual Communication Design 3 class. We have to choose a fairly local non-profit charity and rebrand them. If the charity wants to use the rebranding we do, that’s pretty awesome. If not, it’s all good experience. So far mine’s looking like the “good experience” part.

The original logo for Vine Maple Place (a non-profit charity that helps struggling single parent families in the Maple Valley area of Washington) is a green house with a heart inside the house, and a cross inside the heart. The type in the logo is kinda wavy and weird. Lots of different greens and oranges on their webpage, but none of the greens and oranges go together all that well.

I’m working with a better, warmer color palette and decided to go with a vine maple leaf for the logo as well as a more clean type treatment. 

Hoping the rest of the project goes smoothly.

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Had a little inspiration while jamming to some classics tonight. Half of the duo Hall & Oates... Darryl Hall.

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Decided to sketch this beautiful man while watching Parks and Recreation tonight. 

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Random sketch I did on Wednesday night... actually, I’m just kidding! It wasn’t random at all!!!

I drew up a sketch of my girlfriend @penguingirl14 while we FaceTimed that night. It was her birthday, her 21st. 

She wasn’t a huge fan of the crosshatching but she still blushed when I showed her the sketch. 

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My last logo was honestly, complete shit. I drew this up while in a class totally unrelated to design or art and decided it was way better.

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(Explanation at later date...) 

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Another VCD3 project.

I had to chose a designer (living and not retired) and do something that not only is in the form or design that the designer uses, but also including our own little twist to it. 

The designer I chose was Sean McCabe, a 27 year old hand-lettering artist.

My project reads:

When your storm hits and life has your [hands] full I’ll hold your umbrella.

This was something that I told my girlfriend one time when she was having a really stressful and tough night. The hands drawn in the center are also a sketch of her hands, which she graciously took a photo of and sent it to me to use as reference. 

Obviously, this piece is dedicated to my life and rock, Rachel Croonquist ( @penguingirl14 ).

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Social Impact poster done for my Visual Communications Design 3 class. We had to basically take some sort of propaganda and make an anti-propaganda solution.

I went with the idea of how people who don’t listen to metal say that it’s not music, or it’s of the devil, etc., and turned it into a poster. 

I went with Matty Mullins, as he screams for a living and is covered in tattoos (and a couple piercings), and added the line:

Sometimes letting it out requires screaming.

The QR code at the bottom right corner directs you to YouTube, specifically to the music video for Memphis May Fire’s song “Vices”.