Terminatress (Book Cover Contest)

Content: |  Concept  |  Stocks  |  Colours  |  Robotic  |  Shading  |  FX  |  Finalization  |  Results  |

Concept

To keep up my practice during the semester break, I decided to scour the internet for various projects and briefs I felt I could use to improve. One of the projects I decided to take on was this book cover graphic contest by deviantART stock photographer Cathleen Tarawhiti. The rules were pretty simple. The main photo had to be one of the stocks she provided in the post about the contest, and any other stocks used for the graphic had to allow commercial usage. My first idea for the contest was to turn the stock model into a cyborg.

Breakdown

Stocks

To start with, I needed to decide on which of her photos I would use, and hunt for any other stocks I might need along the way. I decided to use the stock photo, pictured left, as well as:

What a Mess by deviantARTist cyniknet

Cables 06 by deviantARTist 6470

And several metal texture photos I took a few years back.

Hollows Insider (Fake Magazine cover)

Content: |  Concept  |  Cover Image  |  Typography  |  Result  |

Concept

To start with, I knew I wanted to make a magazine based on Kim Harrison's Hollows book series. My initial concept was going to have the three main characters of the cast, in front of a Gothic cathedral. As I started thinking of how I would do the layout, though, I realized that would likely be a very busy cover image. In the end, I decided to use Rachel Morgan, the main heroine, only.

This decision made the process simpler and faster, at least in terms of finding the resources I wanted to use. I went with a search through deviantART's stocks and resources category, to start, and quickly found almost the exact images I had in mind.

Fall 2014- Creative Art Direction- Project 4

Topics: |  Project 4  |  Subjects  |  Roughs  |  Refined  |  Results  |

Project 4- Human Rights Posters
Our 4th and last Creative Art Direction project was creating meant to use what we'd been learning all semester, by creating a 3-ad campaign, with the Declaration of the Common Rights of Humanity as our client. The only restriction was that we had to make a consistent ad campaign.

Fall 2014- Online Advertising- Project 2

Topics: |  Project 2  |  Concept  |  Logo  |  Theme  |  Campaign  |  App  |  Site  |  Magazine  |  Result  |

Project 2- Bluelist Social App
For the second project in my Online Ad course, we were set to design a brand for Bluelist, a dating/social app that was based on a real Crowdspring design contest for this app, with a $200 reward.

NaNoWriMo 2014 Wrap-Up

Topics: |   Update   |  Word Count  |  Scene of the Day   |  Translation  |
Update

I finished up the NaNoWriMo yesterday, but worked more on the last short for it today. There're still 7 more pages to edit in the short, and after that, whether it's actually the final short of the novel is up in the air. I originally had 7 shorts planned for the first Morgana Lugus Investigations novel, and 4 of them, one of them only mostly done, were more than enough to beat the word count challenge.

I plan, right now, to finish the short up, post it, and then keep working. I'll keep up the posting if I do, so be sure to keep following.


Final Word Count: 52,927

Adventures in NaNoWriMo 2014 (Day 29)

Topics: |   Update   |  Current Word Count  |  Scene of the Day   |
Update
To make up for my lack of writing yesterday, my brain helped me finish NaNoWriMo today. I still have a bit of writing left to the short, so I'm hoping that I finish it up tomorrow to get the final word count. If I can't, I still succeeded in writing a novel even while classes with many projects were ongoing, so I feel quite accomplished.

Current Word Count: 50,339

Adventures in NaNoWriMo 2014 (Day 28)

Topics: |   Update   |  Current Word Count  |
Update
Today, I grandly lost my momentum, and spent the better part of a day trying to force my way through it. That didn't really work out so well. Anything I wrote today was dull and pretty uninteresting to write and read. Despite the fact that the next scene is the big action scene, which makes it more frustrating. As it is, I don't know that I'll be able to finish the NaNo word count with today's non-update, unfortunately.

Current Word Count: 45,887

Adventures in NaNoWriMo 2014 (Day 27)

Topics: |   Update   |  Current Word Count  |  Scene of the Day   |
Update
This was a big update today. We've met Tenshi, an informant mentioned several times in the other shorts, and he started her on the track of catching our killer. In an ideal world, I'd be writing this story as a full-fledged mystery, but I don't currently have enough experience with that kind of story to do anything more than a short story with it. As it is, I think it's coming along well.

Current Word Count: 45,887

Adventures in NaNoWriMo 2014 (Day 26)

Topics: |   Update   |  Current Word Count  |  Scene of the Day   |
Update
I finished up the scene with Morgana and her friends at the grill today. The short's coming along nicely, I think, and I might even be able to NaNoWriMo with only 4 stories.

Current Word Count: 43,813

Adventures in NaNoWriMo 2014 (Day 25)

Topics: |   Update   |  Current Word Count  |  Scene of the Day   |
Update
The scene was pretty full of content today. I think it came out well, though it could be one of the clunkier bits to edit when I go through the revision process. Only time will tell, but for a first draft and with the perspective of having just finished writing it, I'm happy with it.

Current Word Count: 42,548