::BL4D3 RUNN3R::

Shot studies--value and lighting.

H4N53L + GR373L = p4r7 V

Final renders:

F4LL 2o1o

Back at CalArts as an MFA2, and already it's whizzing by like an unstoppable time stream.  Lots of things happened in the Summer, and lots of things are happening now.  What's been on my mind?  THESIS x 1000.  These was a story I came up with the help of a classmate, drawing from two brown bags:  BIRDS and FLYING MACHINE.  My concepts:

NEVERLAND X

A tee design that never got printed.  Was fun to draw.  Wrist hurt like crap afterwards though, after 2 hours of rendering.

!! BR451L !!

Haven't been back to the country my dad was born and raised in, for 10 years...  3 days in Sao Paulo; 5 in Salvador, Bahia; and 5 days back in Sao Paulo; 2 days of travel.

Saw so many things.  Saw my grandparents again.  :]  Took over 3,000 pix~

[POSTING SOON!!!]

POST-Brazil~  In FIFA-mode~

My dad's friend painted us something on porcelain and fired it.

This rose was dying before we left, and when we came back it still lives!  ...Poor thing, though.  It's dying slowly...

~F47H3R'5 D4Y~

OUR PROJECT / PREENT:  CODE NAME:  "PAPA DAY"
3 women.  3 hours.  1 mind.  My mother, my younger sister, and I have never had good enough coordination for Father's Day until this year.  Yesterday, we shot ideas back and forth, and it came out spontaneously, and efficiently.  My mother suggested a poem--we use this method often.  Since my dad's passion is flying planes, I decided to take B.O.B.'s song "Airplanes" [featuring Hayley Williams (and Eminem)] and quote the first line.  I proposed my sister to write the poem, and she decided to letter it.  She went ahead and designed the graphic look, too.

We had a 8" x 10" blank canvas lying around the house, so I took it, and started to gather materials:
-the canvas
-the quote
-cut-out plane icon from our Brazilian airline [GOL] magazine
-paperclip of a plane [gold version]
-acrylic paints [2 blues, 1 orange]
-water cup
-2 brushes
-puff paint [silvery blue, glittery gold]
-scissors, exacto blade
-elmer's glue
-silver star sew-on button
-silver Sharpie
-gold gel pen
-toothpick
-scribbled plan and poem full of heart

This is what we came up with:

This is us celebrating the night before with new French vodka-white wine-champagne.  We easily drank half of the bottle, but my mother could finish the rest...  Yes, Pink for Daddy~

Homemade food!  Minus tortillas, guac, and salsa:

Smookies!  Homemade cookies with Ghiradelli chocolate and slightly baked marshmellows:

We also celebrated my uncle's birthday [o6.15] with Banana-Cream Pie~

:: P4CK4G1N6 ::

Did an air freshener and packaging [header and box] for Baron Jay.

:: B00K ILLU57R4710N ::

Since I signed a specific Author's NDA, I cannot release what I have currently been hired to illustrate for a children's book.  So, I decided to draw more~

This piece is called "Dance of the Butterflies"~  Completed in record time [35 mins or so]!

BU51N355 :: C4RD5

These were made 2-3 months ago...they will hopefully be put to good use this Tuesday at our Portfolio Review Day....!

Horizontal Rounded Corners Front:

Back:

Vertical Rounded Corners Front:

Back:

B31J1N6 2oo8

Never posted these....  They were my layouts for the Beijing Catalogue that featured over 1,000 artists for the Beijing National Museum of Art, in preparation for the Olympics in 2oo8.  Did this my Spring Semester [APRIL] at Parsons.  Some of it is CRAZY.

PARSONS Poster:

My Layouts: