Florence

Meet Florence, my flower-themed, whip wielding, magical girl/street fighter for Jenn Woodall’s latest anthology zine, FIGHT!, featuring an incredible line-up of artists and original characters!

London 2012 Olympics Gymnastics Poster.

So this year I did an Independent Study with the super cool dude and great illustrator Daniel Krall. Through the semester he and I worked together while I made four posters for the London 2012 Olympics which I am crazy pumped for! My concept was to integrate patterns found on antique/vintage objects made in England, architecture found in London, and a person performing an event found in the Olympics- this one is for Gymnastics, and features Big Ben's clock face. The floral pattern was based off of an antique English teacup- you can see the post I made about it here. In each poster I limited the amount of colors I used, and variations of the colors can be seen in not only the Olympic rings but the flag of England. It was really hard to do- making simple yet effective posters is no walk in the park, but I'm incredibly happy with how they turned out and I learned a lot!

Urban Nature.

Woah! Thesis updates! As the end of the year draws close, I'm going to start leaking all of the stuff that I've been working on this semester. This is a spot for the This American Life episode "Urban Nature" which talks about nature creeping into man-made environments and sneaking in places where its very presence is a rebuke to the notion that we have things under control. I had a lot of fun with this- drawing plants is really quite relaxing!

Pidgey Used Gust!

Egads, another update? Shocking, I know! Lots of things have been happening in my life, both good and bad, and that along with getting work done for the end of the semester means I'm crazy busy- more artwork will be posted soon, but unfortunately keeping my blog updated has to take the backseat for now.

However, since the opening is coming so soon, and my fellow participants have been posting their work, I figured I should toss this up. I was lucky to be accepted into the Pokemon Battle Royale show (opening April 20th) at the Light Grey Art Gallery earlier in the semester. We were given our choice of Pokemon from a list, and I ended up with the adorable Pidgey! Who doesn't like this guy? Pidgey was a staple Pokemon of the early generations of the game (and was one of the first Pokemon you encounter in the wild!) and has some pretty dang awesome evolutions- I'm a huge sucker for Pidgeot!

I'm completely honored to be featured among amazing artists such as Sam Bosma, Kali Ciesemier, Meg Hunt, Mare Odomo, Julian Callos, Annie Wu, Nick Iluzada, and many other inspirational illustrators, classmates, and friends (a full list of the participants in the show can be found here). Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to the opening, but I hope everyone who lives in the area will go! The print of this piece will even be able to be purchased there for $40- I'm not planning on selling any other copies of this, so it's your only chance to get this in physical form!

Floral Pattern.

So this is my first post in ages... it's not that I haven't been busy, however! My last semester here at MICA had a very rocky start, and I've only recently been getting back into the swing of things, but not to fear, there's a lot more that will be posted quite soon! To start off, here's a pattern I made for part of a piece I'm doing for my Independent Study with Dan Krall (I am creating posters for the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games, which will start to be revealed soon). The pattern was based off of the designs on these English pieces of china.

May Calendar Page.

May! Springtime, flowers, and breezy weather- what's not to love? I had to do an illustration for a calendar page in Lifestyles and was assigned this fun month. It gave me a chance to do some detailed hand lettering as well, which was (as always) a pleasure. You can find the outfit I based this one off of right here!

Monogram.

For my Hand Letters class we were told to put together all of our work from the semester, adding a monogram and full name to the compilation. You can see the results regarding my name in the new blog banner, and this is the result of spending way too much time obsessing about the monogram being perfect.

In addition, the blog has gotten a fresh new look to go with the end of this semester. Much better I think.

Wind In March Book Cover.

For Book Illustration we were asked to do a book cover for a nonexistent book of our choosing from a list provided to us. I chose Wind of March, a fictional book by "author" Ray Parker. I had to figure out what plot I thought the book should have and then do an illustration based on that- I ended up deciding it would be a sort of coming of age story for a young girl (though why it would be written by a man is beyond me). For the pattern in the background I tried to reference lace and flowers- I ended up making it a full page pattern which I will probably upload at some point with come color variations.
I am not sure which color I prefer- the green version was my update post critique, and the pink was my original.