Chinese Zodiac Calendar 2011

This is the rest of the calendar. I think what is left is the cover that say Calendar 2011. This year is the rabbit year. I think we are going to make another image of a rabbit and incorporate some Chinese New Year design into it too.
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IF- chicken

This was a fun project that my twin sister and I came up with. We saw that a lot of people are making their calendar and selling it, so we thought it would be cool to make our own. We came up with the Chinese Zodiac theme. We also want the design of the animals to be like Chinese paper cutting. Instead of having it all be red color, we have colors that matches each animals, so overall we will have a colorful pastel-like tone calendar.

I thought this particular month, August, match this week’s topic, chicken.
So happen that our birthday is in August too.

Do you know what Chinese Zodiac are you?
(My twin and I are the powerful and mystical dragons.)

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Postcard

It is part of a contest to create a postcard for the minors that my school is promoting. I picked the Japanese Minor. I decided to use digital to create this traditional watercolor painting of Koi fish. I want to have this Japanese theme and not to be confuse with Chinese painting, so I added the cherry blossom there.

Landscape

It's one of the final projects I have to do in my digital painting class. We could paint any thing we want and I really like to paint landscape, so I came up with this scene. A place that is beautiful, peaceful, and calm, yet it can be fun if there are people.

Designing with Type

This some of my old assignments i did for my Designing with Type class. The first two, he gives you a typeface and a topic and you have to illustrate that. (Ex: Futura Black, Tension). The third one is Directional Comprehension Project where you could illustrate any word with the given direction. (Ex: Upside down, i pick the word "Tree"). At time i just put the word upside down but my professor said, you could make the "T" look like the trunk and the "ree" like the leaves. So that the word actually look like a "Tree."

My Logos

In the Designing with Type class, i am really grateful that he taught us so much. After his class i really like working with types. He taught us how to make our own logo, business card, letterhead, invoice, poster, the layout and many more. Above are my hand drawn logos. I did some using Illustrator but i think hand drawn is more unique. You are suppose to use the initial of your first and last name but my twins and i have the same first and last initial so i ask my professor if i could use my first and middle initial. I create some of the best works in his class. :)

Designing with Type

These are some of the work that I did for my designing with type class. The top one is using type in Illustrator or make your own type and illustrate the words that was given (ex: Hate, Mountain, God, Art, etc) The bottom one is another project where I have to use type to make a pattern (like a fabric-like pattern). These were pretty hard because the whole class did not do a good job at first. Even he said it was difficult to do but at the end, some of us came up with good designs. Mine was the first he noticed when he critiqued the works. I got scared that I did it wrong but he said he really like it and it looked like a pattern.

Self Portrait (Designing with Types)

This is my second self-portrait, designing with types. This is definitely a more complicated one because it takes me a long time to find the right type that fit my features. I really like this because it looks simple, just black and white (since my first work was in color). I really like to work with types or make layout with types, it’s really fun and you could make amazing work with typefaces.