Portfolio Review

The Selfie of me at the Portfolio Review on September 19th, 2013. Very proud of the students I enrolled years ago doing their graduation and doing well!!!

Project02_Final Posting

Here is the final .pdf for GD208

Four More Pics for P03

Project 03 -- Realistic Illustration

Here are a few pics for the project. I chose a few different items for this, as I wanted to really challenge myself with my Illustrator skills.

Project 1 Final

Second Week Progress on Project II

Here are the second week thumbnails.

I had to go back to the drawing board, as it were, as the original drawings did not allow me to showcase what I had in mind.

As the target audience is people who are looking to travel, I figured that descriptions of the country itself was not attractive enough. As a traveler myself, I look for visual aids and quick descriptions of neat tourist areas.

Therefore, I had to do some brainstoriming to see how it would work best. In the end, I had the map of Europe in the upper left corner with a description box on the right corner. On the bottom half, there are three pictures with descriptions of the sites themselves.

Week 5_Project 2

Final Illustration for Week 5

Visual Illustration

Week 4 - 5 ideas

Here is the cleaned up and finished version of the editorial cartoon for class for 7/22/13

Three Images that I will be using for the editorial illustration in .ai format

Week 2
Concept / Thumbnails
Editorial illustration

The concepts I have included in this blog are for the Naturalization test. This was rather difficult, as I did not want to stumble into the land of profiling and racism, so I had to think on terms of testing and nations. Most of the works that I tried have to do with the classroom, but after a while, I started thinking about monuments to use as people. The final pieces are the ones I going towards with the Statue of Liberty. I especially like the one with the statue of the Motherland and the Buddha.

Week 2 Assignment
Illustrators List


Modern / Contemporary
John Howe -- http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/

Jung Park -- http://www.jungparkart.com/

Joe Madureira -- http://www.joemadfan.com/


Older
Gustave Dore -- Illustrator for works such as Idylls of the King and The Divine Comedy

Sir Peter Bruegal the Elder -- 16th Century artist of works such as The Triumph of Death.

Week One Assignment:

Possible Editorial Pieces:

1. http://www.edutopia.org/standardized-testing-evaluation-reform

*This is going to be an editorial on the problems with Standardized Testing brought forth by the No Child Left Behind law.


2. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-celebrities.html

*This article discusses our obsession with celebrities.


3. http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/is-obesity-a-disease/

*This article discusses obesity as a disease.


4. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-26/imiigrant-civics-test-americans-fail/54563612/1

* Article discusses how immigrants are doing better on citizenship exams than actual citizens.