Here it is! ”Frizzante Limoncello Soda”… I would personally love some right now! Too bad it’s a made up product.
This was a totally different project from what I’m used to, it was quite a challenge but I handled it well, I think. Some areas of my project are overdesigned… but nobody said design was easy! I still really like my topiary figures :)
My lovely-awesome-illustration-artist-friend Heather Pullen gave me these gorgeous prints today! We’re doing a print swap and I am so excited to add Heather’s circus series to my collection of artwork done by my friends. I gotta frame these asap! I actually have to frame all of them, my collection is growing ;)
You should definitely follow her tumblr HERE!
-Julia
I really have no idea where I’m going with this! I just really like topiary…
WIP! Working on comps and color comps at the same time! This is the main image for a 6 pack, and I’ll be doing a label too, and maybe some topiary ladies for an advertisement (because I’m crazy and they were cut from my first round of comps!)
There’s so much to think about when working on package designs. I’ve been looking at the dieline for inspiration, the designs featured on that site will forever put me to shame.
Final art will come soon :) What do you think so far?
-Julia
Feeling sad today? Watch/listen to this for 5 hours straight.
This never ever ever gets old.
hmm…. I’m fooling around with some old ink stuff in photoshop. This could be something if I add more objects and color? We will see, I’m just super excited for summer!! And I should probably get back to my real homework.
Hope everybody had a nice weekend!
-Julia
The whole enchilada (or book design):
I come up with the best titles around!
Thanks to everybody for the kind words and great feedback! Here’s my process from my last project in Type and Image. 
I started off with thumbnails and comp ideas. I thought about having symbols and images in a shadowbox, since the main character and narrator is dead. So that division is seen in each comp. If I had gone with one of the top two I would have pushed the shadowbox idea even more (with dimension and drop shadows). But both my professor and I thought the last one was working the best.
In the last comp, which I took to final, you see Susie Salmon divided into three parts. Her head would be Susie in the “in between” and she would be giving off this great aura.
The middle section would be the cornfield, where she was raped and murdered. I pushed that concept even further and made a diagonal pointing to the bottom of this section using the cornstalks.
And the last section is underground where she died and where part of her elbow was found by a dog.
It’s pretty obvious which color comp worked the best, haha.
Some of the watercolor and ink used in my final! The rest was composed/adjusted digitally.
A work in progress. Photoshop is soooo nice because I can put my comp in a low opacity and work right on top! Pretty easy, right? process 
The final design!
Here are the spots on the back up close :)
This project was a really fast turn around, but I have to say I really enjoyed it. It helped that I was excited about the novel and Susie’s character. Alice Sebold’s book is so beautiful, I would highly recommend it.
-Julia
Here’s the front cover of my book design for Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones.
I’m just too darn happy with how it came out, I had to at least post the front design! I’ll post my process and the back design in a few days, I have to tweak some things in indesign.
Also, thanks to everybody with all the feedback with my type last week! Ya’ll helped a lot. <3
alternate title to this comic: NightMugwump21541
(click to make bigger!)
DISCLAIMER! I love Hufflepuffs, I’m dating one and my best friend is one. LEAVE THEM ALONE.
(even though I drew myself in this comic giving evil eyes to the hufflepuff boy. Now I’m rambling.)
If anyone wants to give me critique on the type, please be my guest!
I had some really good critique on facebook, and I tried some transitional typefaces (fournier and else to be exact), the bottom two are hand done but MUCH smaller than what I was originally doing.
So, I’m posting it again but I feel like if I posted all these design options on facebook I would feel like a jerk. (But I always feel like I’m being a jerk. And that is another story…)
ALSO If you would like to critique the illustration as well, please do so! I really care about this project and it’s due very very soon, so I can’t afford to be this indecisive!
Thanks!
I should note:
I started this homework assignment with frutiger and I was doing Shelley Duvall
and, well… hahah
So I changed my person and font. And I took a screenshot of when I started on Benedict’s eyes (using zapfino), the result is eyeliner
lol
using a script font: I was apprehensive, but everything turned out better than expected.
What did you do tonight? Did you make a typographic portrait of Benedict Cumberbatch?
Guess I can add that to my resume now.
Man, is he delicious. :)
-Julia
Illustrated letter forms for my Type and Image class!
It’s no secret I love medieval art and illuminated manuscripts. When you look through the old illustrated gospels and mosaics you see various images of the four Evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) shown with or as a certain symbol.
Matthew is represented as either a man or an angel, Mark is represented as a lion, Luke as an ox, and John as an eagle.
I just adore these symbols from medieval art and I hope you enjoy my own take on them! :)
-Julia
Hey guys just a little heads up for those of you who are SCAD students:
April 26th, I will be speaking at Morris Hall at the SCAD student illustration club at around 8pm. If you’re around, come say hey!
Sweet! Hi, in advance. :)
Source: samwolfeconnelly
Tehe :)
Something completely different for Survey, due tomorrow. haha
