Business Card Updated

Here is an updated version of my business card. I decided to invert the shades of blue to give it more of a punch on the back of the card.

South Park Print Booklet Layout

I chose to do my informational booklet on South Park because I enjoy watching the show and making a booklet would be a blast. Adobe Illustrator was used for the Illustrations and InDesign was used for the layout.

When you open the booket there is a funny quote on the right side of the double spread.

This page is a brief history about the show featuring the common characters.

For the next pages I wanted to focus on the four main characters of the show. Starting with Stan.

The reason Eric Cartman has the most intense page of the four characters is due to his outrageous demonstrations throughout the series.

The back inside cover also features a quote and on the bottom of the right page it expresses that these illustrations were vectored by me but the information and characters displayed are that of South Park Studios.

This project was a ton of fun, and was printed and bound perfectly.

KYLE VECTOR ILLUSTRATION/Partial Tutorial

It took me some time to find the right picture to use for this illustration. When I found the one I wanted to use I realized that it was took dark. I thought it would be a long shot to take it into photoshop and try to get it right but with a lot of experimentation and tweaking I got the picture to look realistic and a great tone. I am aware that the coat is over exposed however I was really going for getting the face to look it's best.

I get a fair amount of compliments and questions after each piece of artwork is completed. People often ask me how I accomplish these illustrations with such detail and a certain style. As I tell anyone who asks... It's all about layers.. drawing certain parts of the face and hiding them. Layers upon layers building up into the final product. Never get discouraged if its not turning out the way you want it to. Its going to look a bit odd until it is completed. Don't let it stop you. I find it easiest to start with the basic outline of the face and build up. Once you finish the basic shape of the face, draw the darks, midtones, and highlights. Then go for one of the eyes and focus on that, then the other, on to the lips, hair, and part of the body. Afterwards I always unlock all of the layers and make sure to adjust opacities and tones to make everything look the way I want it to. At the very end I add a background colour that will compliment a certain colour on the person being illustrated... usually the person's shirt. In this case Kyle was wearing an orange shirt so I chose the complimentary colour blue.

Never give up on your illustrations

Keep on practicing, you only get better as time goes on.

Parallax Scrolling Assignment- Spongebob

I decided to do spongebob for my parallax scrolling assignment.

Everything shown in the scene I vectored and animated. I found a jelly fishing song I was not even aware of on youtube and used adobe Soundbooth to cut it to the appropriate length and add a fade in/out. I used the camera method in Adobe After Effects to truck into the scene and orbit slightly. The Jelly Fish are animated separately on various Z-axis' moving towards the left. Spongebob's arm's anchor-point was changed so that I could animate his arm slowly rotating to the right in order to catch the jelly fish (which he never seems to catch) :)

There was a lot of effort and careful consideration put into this project and I am quite content with the results.

Thanks for taking a look

:) Gabby

Magazine Layouts. Double Page Spreads

This was an exercise utilizing adobe indesign for the first time. I Learned how to create margins, columns and how to add text and images. I googled and looked at magazines for inspiration. I measured 4 different magazines to see typical sizes and use of images and content.

This is the first layout double spread layout I created. I chose to do rubber chickens again because rubber chickens are a classic comedy prop and is a symbol of laughter and happiness.

This particular photo was taken by me in second semester photography class. The content was reworded from the web http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-rubber-chicken.htm

This is the second layout I created. I used a high resolution photograph I found on google images. www.phototravelpages.com

I separated the columns by introduction, Ladies Night, Guys Night, and Couples Night. This layout is about Toronto Nightlife. The content was retrieved from toronto.com