Graphic Design 06 - Get Out the Vote! ("Lolcat wants you to vote nao")

In Digital Design, our assignment was simply to create a vote poster. A lot of people came up with some really cool stuff!

some sketches and thumbnails

some rough drafts:

    

some rough drafts:

and, just for fun, Maru: 

WUPR Illustration 01 ("i have no shame with my political views")

For an issue of WUPR, we were tasked to illustrate an article of our choosing. I chose an article that was about the faults of the current GOP, mainly how it devolved from a party that stressed low-taxes and seeking energy sources within the country, to a party made up of conservative-right-wackos (Tea Party) and flip-floppers that utter gaffes every other sentence (Romney) whose party agenda is anti-everything. 

                             

original sketches/thumbnails: 

I think I'm going to revise it in the future. The text could be better arranged, and I could do a better job with coloring. Maybe I'll even change the format/layout of it to better illustrate a sense of passed time? 

wuslam - october slam

WUSlam once again. This poster was done for the October Slam. I went a different route and drew it all by hand, instead of constructing everything entirely by presets.

some sketches/thumbnals: 

sketchbook 02 ("i draw a lot of stuff, i'm just bad at uploading it")

I'm alive, I swear! Most of this was done in September, but I never got around to scanning them. 

"wuslam likes whales" (september slam and whale icons)

(final version)

I was asked to design a poster for our school's poetry slam team, and it wasn't easy. I played around with a couple of ideas:

(as you can see, none of them really went anywhere.) (though looking back, I kind of like the third one.) 

definitely rolled with the blue one. 

some sketches of whales:

 the silhouettes!

fanart 05 ("pokemon is the comeback kid")

done in Photoshop, using a crayonwax brush to achieve celshade effect

AND here's a WIP that I desperately want to finish. If only I had 1) all the time in the world, and 2) my tablet pen. (it is weeping silently in a package in a mailroom that was closed on Sunday and Monday)

that font's really awful because y'know, my handwriting, but I'll get around to fixing that soon. this was a story that i read online! it was alright, but the title was cool, so the fanart bug bit me. 

collaborative comic - the diary of dr. michael kaiser

W H E W. note to self: never try and crank out a comic in three days! it's unhealthy!

also not helpful that my tablet was out of commission, so there's that.
nonetheless, here it is. written by my partner in the comic club at school, kyle flagstad, and drawn by me.