i don't know what i'm doing. i was looking at that moleskine graphic and then thinking up something else entirely. i'm not sure. but this is my project today:

i just need to finish an illustration for it. let's see how this progresses.

don't know what i'm doing.

since my idea for coldstone looked less like ice cream and more like pepto, i am thinking of just doing something else...

Cocaine day 3

ok, i'm happy with the other ones. i'm morking on this one. i may change the color of the lips. don't know just yet.

so, all of them lined up in a nice little row for everyone to take a gander at:

Cocaine day 2

after this happened to my usb chip:

i was terrified that i lost everything. thankfully, nothing was lost, and, if it were, i have back-ups on my laptop and work pc.

but crazy.

i fixed up my latest campaign that my friends are giving me good responses to. i had decided what i needed to adjust and today is going to be spent desigining a second concept.

first concept:


second concept:

coming along.

my worst enemy is clearly copywriting:


no, sticking with original copy and using "pnp" for my next concept. but i did need LENSFLARES!


the copy no reads: 100% pure uncut energy.


i think they're finished. added the glare to the can:

and

Cocaine

i was looking through my old sketches for school and what products i should do, but i kinda didn't do a specific one because i hated the packaging so much. it's that cocaine energy drink. but i had an idea last night for how i'd want to do it again, and it doesn't seem as complicated (in my head) as the sketch i had done a while ago.

but it's going to be really smart. hopefully i can do it during work.

P.S. 11:20 AM February 11, 2008

I was thinking on the subway about this. I'm going to eighties the fuck out of the Cocaine drinking package and logo. And the main type treatment i'm going to use is gradients and crazy colors. modernize an eighties look for an eighties drug. I want to make it sharp and fashion housey looking with a futuristic appeal. something sleak. so i made this at work:

and i'm going to use it in different ways. the first concept that i hope i can get completed today is going to have a rolled up twenty inside the can of...lols...coke.

P.P.S

It came out good, i think. Really clean. I think it's really eye-catching. and i think it looks different from what i usually make.

Bic

it came out nice. a few things i need to pretty up here and there. but i like it. that back wave is bothering me to no end.

Interesting.

I'm not sure what I think about it. It's pretty. But not what I planned. Adding the rhinestone flowers became too much information for the program and it was just taking too long on my teeny ass computer.

P.S. I decided i really need to fix this one up before i even think about putting it in my portfolio.

Working with fake rhinestones

so, my latest concept for this campaign (and it isn't what people in my advertsing class would call "conceptual" because image advertising wasn't exactly emphasized in my classes) with Bic lighters (the other one being my Mucha concept) is with the bedazzled lighter. all the rhinestones. i was thinking of doing something other than art as a means of showing what the lighter could look like with different each series of lighter, so i decided to stray from art, and, while i've yet to finish that fucking hokusai wave lighter that looks so cool right now, i may have to forget about past ideas and create a third, completely different series for the lighters.

but, anyway, i've been working on creating a more interesting layer to use with the empty space on the bedazzled lighter. something involving more rhinestones because, while i didn't work hard to make them, i think they're really eye catching when they are actually visible. so i'm using a kind of method of designing them when i was a henna artist. my thing was dots that embellished a certain shape or lines. I'm thinking I may need to add more rhinestones, but i don't want it too involved:

I think it'll look nice.

and in purely ian fashion, i accidentily didn't save the jewel work, so i had to redo it:

Bic stuff

Workin on it. this is what i have so far, but i need to put some designs into the white space and use the rhinestones a little more.

Pre-occupied with work so nothing new on the portfolio...

I haven't been consistent with my work on my portfolio. Lots of things happening in my personal life where I am not always able to invest the time I want on my book, so, I've been working a lot more. But i'm taking a break and going to the Hamptons this weekend, so, I'll get some work done.

Good news is they're giving me more design opportunities at work. take for instance this: I was told to make tour guide signs that would show group one, two and three. very simple project, but I wanted to make it look awesome. So, I came up with these signs based on the PMS colors:




I just wish I was given more than signage...