August 24th, 2010
Well, hello there, what do we have here? An Adventures of an Interior Architecture and Design Student post? Did hell freeze over? … I have this tendency to be extremely lax borderline slacker-ish on posting entries for this series. Woops. While in school, I have no desire to think about more school in my free time. And during my break, the last thing on my mind is reliving school… making this the ultimate failure. As a result, I have a major back-log of entries I’d planned to post. So please accept this as my advance apologies for posting this and any future promised entries quite late.
Grovelling and begging forgiveness aside, we’re going to take a little trip into our time machine today back to fall of 2009 when I took Sketching for Communication. In a nut shell, we were taught how to translate the images in our heads onto paper through sketches as accurately as possible. This class was a required class for all non “fine arts” majors (meaning students taking Graphic Design, Advertising, Interior Architecture and Design, etc. – essentially anyone whose major wasn’t heavily based on illustration) and was pretty much a “Learn How to Draw Accurately” type of class.
Concept sketches and roughs for my final project.
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August 18th, 2010
I’ve found her! The maker of my all-time favourite video in all of existence! I’ve finally found out who the genius behind it is and it feels like I just discovered some miraculous new species of insect or something, that’s how positively elated I am. I’m like a kid on Christmas morning hyped up on sugar and bouncing off the walls! It’s frightening how excited I am right now. She’s the one and only, illustrator Julia Pott, and her work is positively electrifying! I just spent the last few hours perusing her Flickr stream and oh my word, it’s like I’ve died and gone to illustration heaven. A wonderful illustration filled heaven complete with copious amounts of charming little animals, unusual colour palettes, and patterns galore!
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July 6th, 2010
This illustration by Caitlin Shearer
Because it’s ridiculously adorable and filled with lots of cute little fashion-y bits and bobs!
(And it’s a bajillion times more awesome at full size.)
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June 2nd, 2010
Quick hello from Krissy: Hi guys! This post is brought to you by my good, and long-time friend, Manda of Break The Sky. Many thanks to her for succumbing to my demands for a guest post. ;) ♥
My love for Kurt Halsey started approximately five years ago, when one of my friends introduced me to his artwork. I’m not a huge fan of art in general, nor do I know much about artists or anything related to art. But there was something about Kurt’s work that spoke volumes to me; the themes in his work are ones that I can relate to constantly. I love his style and the simplicity of his sketches, how they are so simple yet are often about subjects regarding complex matters of the heart. Those who know me know that oftentimes my romantic life is a mess, and I think that’s part of the reason why I connect so well to Kurt’s work.
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May 23rd, 2010
Antler Magazine
Because it’s always such a wonderful source of inspiration and beauty, and it’s filled to the brim with beautiful art, fashion and photography from creative types all over the world. If you’re not reading it already, you should be! (It’s free!)
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