A cold and deserted city

If one were to analyze these photos, one might imagine that their photographer is a misanthrope who does not like people. And one would be correct.

More Fruit

I am officially tired of fruit. This assignment required the creation of a still-life using vector graphics. The first photo is the reference image I used, and the second is the illustration I created using various tools in Illustrator (i.e. gradient meshes, transparent layers, gaussian blurring, etc). There's more that I would have liked to have added (texture in the lime, the surface of the strawberry), but sometimes you have to say, "NO MORE".

Verboten Fruit

Created this stationary for a fictitious cosmetics company. The logo concept I came up with was to put a woman's face in an apple, and to have her hair also double as the bite out of the apple. Not all that unsuccessful because nobody sees it until I mention it. The other concept I came up with was to make the business card look like an apple hanging from a tree. Not so obvious either. I guess I need to work on that. There are a number of other areas that the design could be improved on, but I was already into the grace period for this assignment.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Advices?

Just for the record, Franco is a child. Arnold is the father.

Even Monsters Get The Blues

What keeps monsters awake at night? Baby Hitlers on the prowl, if this drawing is any indication. Also, the pain of having clumsy hands which defy good anatomical taste, and a lack of legs.

This assignment was for Foundation Colour. It was done in gouache, and the assignment stipulated that we had to make use of all the primary, secondary and tertiary colours (hence the garish colour choices). We were required to derive all the secondary and tertiary colours using only the primary ones - hence the terrible red violet comforter.

The Peek-a-Boo Girl

Drawings of Veronica Lake for George Brown Art & Design Foundation. The assignment was to produce two line drawings of the same subject, using a detailed approach for the first drawing and an economical approach for the second.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision. - Veronica Lake

I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair." - Veronica Lake

Grocery Line Etiquette

In the grocery line today, I was waiting behind an older lady who didn't have her Airmiles card with her but wanted to collect her points. Sounding tentative and uncertain, she recited her Airmiles card number several times but the system didn't accept it until the 4th or 5th try. Other customers, seeing that an old lady was at the head of the queue, abandoned the line and moved to other cashiers. At any rate, I wasn't bothered by the wait; my attention was more focussed on Heather Graham's abs on Shape magazine's cover than Old Lady's puttering. Eventually I had a peripheral sense that her transaction was nearing completion so I moved up to the cashier. But Old Lady was entering her PIN and she perceived my imposing presence as a threat. Eyeing me suspiciously, she shielded the keypad with her entire body, hunched over Gollum-like. She gave me several furtive glances and eventually I felt compelled to reassure her:

"I'm NOT looking at your PIN!"
"Well, you're standing awfully close!"

I think she must have been genuinely afraid that I was going to mug her in the parking lot, because she took off in such a hurry. When I got home, I discovered an extra bag of groceries amongst mine. It was a bag of boneless chicken thighs and ribs that Old Lady had left behind in her haste to escape, possibly as an offering of appeasement, ravenous Roid Freak that I am.