Project 9- Old Maid Cards

In this assignment, we were to recreate a set of Old Maid cards with characters and funky names. There were a list created with 5 specific events that shaped my personal aesthetic, 5 people who have influenced my creativity, 5 inanimate objects I keep around my workspace, 10 activities I do to stimulate my creativity, and one thing that hinders my creativity. Here is what I came up with.

The first 5 characters I came up with are events that shaped my personal aesthetic are Passing Dad, Moving Austin, Surfing Val, Broken Hearted Darwin, and Creative Arturo. Passing Dad came from the passing of my Father. Moving Austin was when I moved away from my hometown to Austin for college. Surfing Val was from when I went to visit California for the first time and it was a wonderful place to be. Broken Hearted Darwin is from my just recent break-up that made me realized I need to value myself more as a person. Creative Arturo is from the passion I have for art and exploring my creativity to a better future.

The next 5 characters are people who influenced my creativity and they are Hairy Frida, Little Maurice, Champion Marco, Rapper Tucker, and Savage Salvador (which is on the first lower picture). Hairy Frida is inspired by Frida Kahlo. Little Maurice is from Maurice Sendak. Champion Marco is from Marcel Duchamp. Rapper Tucker is from Tupac Shakur, and Savage Salvador is from Salvador Dali. Those artists are what keep my creativity going.

 The next list of 5 are inanimate objects I keep around my workspace which are a tiny toy airplane, food, a toy sheep, something to drink, and my iPod. So Flying Sally is from my toy airplane, Chewing Mason is food, Puffy Buffy is my toy sheep, Thirsty Bob is a drink, and my iPod is Musical Cal. 

The final list of 10 are activities I do to stimulate my creativity which are sleeping, meditating, cleaning, exercising, play drums, go outdoors, play basketball, listen to music, drive around, and have a few bottles of alcohol. Hence my characters are Sleepy Vinny, Meditate Kate, Spotless Jess, Exercising Stace, Drummer Gunther, Outdoor Flo, Baller Stella, Jamming Tammy, Driving Javi, and Drunk Chuck.

 Hesitancy Gracy is my final card of the photoset and is the old maid card. Being hesitant is what hinders me the most when it comes to creativity.

And finally, this is design I chose for the back of my cards simply because I'm the type of person who always likes keeping things in line and on grid point with simplicity. So I chose a simple grid plaid pattern. I'm kind of boring. 
Overall, this was a very fun project and will keep working on it, for portfolio use in the future. 

Project 7: The Bard

In this assignment, we were assigned to do a Royal Shakespeare Company cover for a Shakespeare production. I chose Comedy of Errors and here is a synopsis where I based my ideas from. 

This drama is one of the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare. The Comedy of Errors relies heavily on mix-ups and witty dialogue. The characters include two sets of twins, Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse. Dromio of Ephesus is the slave of Antipholus of Ephesus, and Dromio of Syracuse is the slave of Antipholus of Syracuse. Antipholus of Ephesus is unaware that he has a twin brother, Antipholus of Syracuse. And Dromio of Ephesus is unaware that he also has a twin brother, Dromio of Syracuse. Farcical mix-ups occur when all the twins all meet in Ephesus. The themes of the play are reality, time, coincidence and love.

And while designing the cover, we had to go back in character from the Pseudonym from earlier project assignments, which was Claire-less for me. Since she a unorganized, sloppy kind of person, I made the cover messy and not so perfect coloring with bright colors. I chose another media from the ordinary which was Crayola Crayons, since I normally don't use it in most of my personal projects. I chose using the characters in shock while looking at each other and with the typography of the title, I used the "C" and "Y" 's as half neck braces, just like some people back in the day would wear them with their fancy outfits. On the "E" on Errors, I made an cross x to emphasis the meaning of the word. 

In Class Editorial Illustration

In this in class assignment, we had to read this article and illustrate showing what the article was talking about. I had an article talking about how ads online today pretty much stalk people through email and use cookies to target you. So I drew an evil cookie with a laser gun targeting a person and his whole team of cookies behind also. The cookie is on disguise so the person won't notice, but the damage is already done. 

Project 6: Simplification Through Symbolism

In this assignment, we had to gather 10 quotes of any kind (relatives, artists, friends, etc.) and list them. Then from those 10, we narrowed it down to three by vote, then create a symbol representing the quotes. I came up with a George Burns, my Mother, and Frida Kahlo quotes and illustrated as simple as I could. I'm not all that confident that the symbols reflect greatly with each quote, but in hopes that the message is still there. 

The first quote was "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed" and so I drew out a person laying down on top of a money bag, as it was their bed.
The second quote was "You look much prettier being quiet" and I did a pretty girl with a bandana covering her mouth, to show that she can't speak. 
The third quote was "Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly", and I drew out simple wings using almost negative space to form a foot.

In Class Aesthetics

 Beautiful Vultures

 Beautiful Bull

 Mama Rat

Sexy armpits and teeth guy

In this in class assignment, we were to create aesthetics. You think of things that have beauty, but is ugly at the same time. I came up with Beautiful vultures that have a beautiful view of things, and have amazing wings, but are just vicious and scary. The second picture is a bull killing machine, but have a beautiful stance and anatomy. The third picture drawing is a Mama rat that is loving and caring with her babies, but lives in a rat hole and is a rat. Rats are disgusting to humans. Finally the last image is a guy whose obviously attractive, has a nice body, but has ugly teeth and really long armpit hair. Which makes the guy, unattractive while being attractive at the same time.

Project 4: Emotional Cyrk Poster

For our Project 4, we had to create a circus Cyrk poster that relates to our Pseudonym character in a way. We also had a list of emotions which we have to emphasize in the poster. I chose the emotion, confidence, which relates to my Pseudonym character, Claire-less. There is two people, which obviously part of the circus, and are doing an upside down trick. The lady with flow-y hair is confident in not falling or being afraid even though she's not being held tightly. The design also show off a kind of sloppy, quick, not really detailed creation, just like Claire is. And finally, Claire-less is credited as the creator of the poster of course. 

In Class Pseudonym

Our in class assignment this week was to create a pseudonym, a fictitious character that is completely different from my normal day self. Either the person can be someone you want to be or just plain different from you. So, I drew out a character who is careless and unorganized. 'Claire-less' is a person who is messy, yet manages to always have perfect hair. Claire is also rebellious in a way and has perfect vision, therefore does not use glasses. I chose this character because I am a organized person who never likes to be dirty, careless, and sloppy. I am also kind of not really cool looking with all this organization, unlike Claire who has style even if she does not try.