Archive for category Handicraft
3D class
Posted by Sheri in 3 Dimension, Art Institute Online - Graphic Design, Digital design, Handicraft on May 26, 2011
This class went by in a blur for me. I was constantly out of computer ink as well. 
We started just creating things using papers and cardstocks to see how paper behaves. We also did a few assignments using a single sheet of paper to create containers and marketing tools. Here’s a couple examples:
We also began developing designs and actual prototypes of tabletoppers. We had a certain assigned restaurant to design for, which was “Grandma’s House” and it was to promote weeks of different desserts. My design was a dessert spinner that not only housed the dessert menu but offered a fun and interactive tool for the customers to decide which desert they would like.
Thumbnail:
Rough:
Final:
The last assignment was another tabletopper to promote a cruise ship. It also needed to double as a matchbox holder.
Thumbnails:
Rough 1:
Rough 2:
Final:
ART WALK DOWNTOWN OCALA 1ST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH
Posted by Sheri in Handicraft, News and Thoughts, Paintings on February 28, 2011
Participating in downtown Ocala’s art walk. Basically, it’s artists setting up booths and painting. We can also sell our work for anyone interested. Just trying to bring the artsy-fartsy to our fair town. I’m really excited about this! Come see me the first friday of every month! This first one is next friday, March 4th. 6pm till 8 pm.
corporate identity and a loss of identity
Posted by Sheri in Art Institute Online - Graphic Design, Digital design, corporate identity on February 7, 2011
I got a promotion… YAY!
I love it, except I’m busy. Really, really, really busy. I haven’t got to update my posts in a while because of this. I’ll try and catch up some!
I started a new class, corporate identity. When I first registered, I groaned with a foreboding sense of boredom. I’m a person who’s heavily stimulated by the creative aspect of graphic design, not so much the business part. I was pleasantly surprised though, because I’m actually learning a lot of really useful info! As a bonus, the professor helped make the class as un-boring as possible! I got to focus a lot of my projects inwardly, and used my assignments to focus on working on a brand logo and potential plan for a brand standard for my future company.
Week 1- was mostly evaluating logos. Let me tell you, I had no clue how to do this starting out. I’ve always been the girl in art class who put everything I had into a logo, only to have it spurned in honor of the guy who spent 5 minutes on his. A little jaded, I wasn’t looking forward to this. I learned that thought and progressive reworking is required, but overworking and over loading a logo is just as bad if not worse. Keep it simple and smart.
Week 2 - we delved more into evaluating other companies logos, and began thumbnailing for our own logos. I decided to redo the logo for this site, www.foxesdin.com, because the original logo I came up with was less than impressive.
Original foxesdin logo:
New logo thumbnails:
Week 3 – This week we did some research on color and it’s effect on logos and how the company is perceived based on the colors of it’s logo. Played around with color choices and logo designs some more in illustrator:
Week 4- Did some work on copyrighting, brand manuals, and final work on our logos.
wk 5 digital apple
Posted by Sheri in Art Institute Online - Graphic Design, Digital design, digital illustration on December 14, 2010
Fifth and final apple for digital illustration class. This week, I got out the dusty wacom tablet and just did a freestyle drawing of an apple with shadow. This is the type of art I love to make and comes easiest to me.
wk 4 apple digital illustrator
Posted by Sheri in Art Institute Online - Graphic Design, Digital design, digital illustration on December 7, 2010
Finally seem to be getting a little more comfy in illustrator. Here’s my week 4 apple.
I decided to do an extreme closeup of an apples inside. I started by creating a rectangle shape and then changing it to have a sharp slope down towards the center of the art board. I applied both an elliptical and liner opacity to the yellowish flesh of the apple to give it depth. After this I copied and reflected this to the other side of the art board. I then added seeds by using the elliptical tool and warp tool. I added depth to them by using the gradient elliptical tool. I changed to color slightly for each seed and also changed the size a little. I then applied a large elliptical shape above this, and applied a red elliptical gradient to the edge as well as the inside. I used the pucker tool and wrinkle tool to roughen up this edge of where the skin meets the flesh of the apple. Finally, I used the blob tool with a really low opacity of 5 to add a highlight at the top of the apple.
color swatches for spot illustrations project
Posted by Sheri in Art Institute Online - Graphic Design, Digital design, digital illustration on November 28, 2010
Digital Illustration – Project on illustrating from text.
Color Palette
owl mask – new etsy listing
Posted by Sheri in Handicraft, News and Thoughts, Paintings on November 28, 2010
kristy and jeremy craig wedding + cake!
Here’s some pics from Jeremy and Kristy Craig tying the knot last night. The wedding was gorgeous, almost as beautiful as the bride herself. The cake was baked from scratch by my hubby, Jeff, and it turned out amazing. We decked it out in our vanilla buttercream with pale yellow piping borders and over 50 hand crafted sugar flowers in varying blues.
The Concept
Final
wanting to write a book
Posted by Sheri in Handicraft, News and Thoughts on November 17, 2010
So, I decided I would write a book about 30 minutes ago. I’ve decided this before, at least 5 times to be exact. I usually get about 5-10 pages done and decide something else catches my fancy. I’m pretty excited about this though, because B&N offers ebook listings for free. You do have to pay a commission, but no ISBN number is required. I would even be able to design my own cover! Needless to say, I’m super duper excited. I hope I can make it long enough without being worn out.
Updated the site
Posted by Sheri in Digital design, News and Thoughts on November 15, 2010
I’m so excited! I spent hours today updating my site! I really hope I can get it to what I want. Deleting my facebook seems to have some benefits. haha!
Also, relisted my paintings on etsy! Redid my banner, and was chosen for someone’s treasury in the first hour after listing. Been a productive day!
