EPIC CHER

This is a project for my Digital Layout & Print Production II class. I talked about it earlier but I just barely got started. I hate Cher but i think this is gonna turn out alright.

"Can you read the bottom line for me?"

So I got new glasses (as I mentioned before). I had a headache for the first few days along with me seeing kind of blurry I thought maybe I was just adjusting to the new lenses. Its day four and shit is still blurry. I am pissed I have to go back and take another eye exam...I hate when they ask you which one looks clearer...1?...or 2? sometimes they look exactly the same! F**k!

Kick Ass

My new frames came in. Its the weekend even though I work everyday I still get to chill. I went to this comic bookstore for the first time and its pretty sweet. I bought issues 1-3 of Kick Ass and it is pretty insane, along with volume 9 of The Walking Dead, very depressing volume I was shocked when he was talking to no one on the phone...zombie apocalypse must be pretty intense on the psyche.

Pointilism...

Pointillism-a technique of neo-Impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors which become blended in the viewer's eye.
This is an assignment for my Illustration class. Create a stamp depicting some sort of American history, I chose Jackson Pollock for he is a famous American painter. I could have used any medium I wanted to as long as it was black & white. I chose pen. I am okay with pencils but the size of the picture had to be 5 times the size of a stamp (3.5in x 4in). I chose dots because they take up less space...I don't know why it came up sideways.

Won't you feed on me?

I love Renaissance looking banners...this is actually a symbol that comes already with Illustrator CS4. I just used live paint and filled it in with my favorite colors. The hand I just traced a photo and I typed in REEKS on a curved path. It looks like something that would be on one of those Famous shirts...unfortunately.

What you thought was the starting point of the wrap actually ends up being the end.

-Micron pen on paper/digital-
Yeah...I will post some more yarn drawings...its really fun and random to draw. Click image to see the entire drawing.

Customer Service Specialist

So I've been working at Best Buy now since November 1st (my birthday) and have enjoyed my time there. I love my co-workers and its better than my previous job (mcdonalds). Of course like any job there are always unfavorable things that happen, and at Best Buy its cheap customers. Being a Best Buy employee gives me a pretty good discount, but when someone I don't even know ask me for the employee discount it drives me insane! I don't even give my good friends my discount (sometimes i'll take a percentage off) so what makes these people I don't even know think that I will give them a discount...pisses me off.
Tax Exempt- I didn't even know this existed till I worked here. This one gentleman from Alaska bought a DVD for $7 something, I had to fill out a tax exempt form for this a-hole and it only brought it down like 63 cents...people do this every day and they are only saving like a couple bucks. Other than that, I can't complain theres all kinds of shawtys too, I be breaking neck all the time.

I Love Illustrator!

I just wanted to show some of the things I have done in Illustrator.
- The first one was an idea for my crews version of Coachella. The idea was to Renaissance looking my friends wanted a more hardcore bro down feel. Basically it was a three day weekend in a house with ten dudes in it...I love my friends. I will post the version I went with eventually.
-This one here is an idea my friend Tim came up with. Pretty self-explanatory. myspace.com/promnitegirls-This was for my Digital Layout & Print Production I class in which I had to create a direct mailer for whatever I wanted to I chose one of my favorite magazines. I like my little characters, they look funny.

Reeks Today

So I have recently just started my third quarter (I think I said that in a previous post) at IADT-Seattle. I just wanted show everyone the classes I am taking:
-Multimedia I- In this class I will be learning how to use Adobe Flash, and for those of you who don't know what Flash is it is basically a program for making flash animations for websites.

-Graphic Design I- You think I would've already taken this class...here we learn basically some history of Graphic Design and what it is. In this class all of our projects and assignments will be hand-rendered. I'm pretty excited for this but the teacher I have is very young and I don't think she has as much experience as some of my other instructors in previous classes. But who am I to judge?

-Digital Layout & Print Production II- One name...Cher. We have already been assigned our midterm project in which we must create the packaging for Cher's "Collectors Edition" 3 disc and Autobiography DVD which holds everything she has done since the beginning of her career till today. There are probably 25 people in this class and we all got the same artist...I understand where he is trying to get at where in the real world we don't get to choose our own clients, but this is ridiculous he could at least randomly assigned four artists each artists having four concepts.

-Illustration- I'm am very excited for this class, the first day I found out that my instructor was inaugurated into the League of American Illustrators (or something like that) just recently which makes me feel like I will actually be learning something. However she talks really fast and rambles...I'm an asshole. So in this class for the first half of the quarter we will be doing hand-rendered comps of our assignments. And for the second half we will be learning Adobe Illustrator which is a vector-based graphics software (type in vector based into google and you can see numerous samples of vector-based graphics). I have been using Illustrator for almost 2 years now I'm not as proficient as I would like to be but I know my way around.

So that is my class list, my schedule is:
Mondays 8:00 am-10:45 pm (first 3 classes)
Thursdays 8:00 am-12:40 pm (last class)
Each class is about four hours long with a couple of breaks in between, I really like this because it gives me a lot of time during the rest of the week to work and do homework like should be right now but instead I am writing in my blog which no one even reads.

Photography

So as a Graphic Designer I should have some designs, however haven't had time to post as often as I wanted to. So here are some photos I shot for my final project in my Digital Photography class. Fortunately I had an amazing instructor who was very knowledgeable on the subject, unfortunately she no longer teaches.

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg50/reekersmonky/final_w_text.jpg

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg50/reekersmonky/final_no_text.jpg

The jpg of them was very discolored so i used the direct link. So I want to talk a little about these photos, these were both for my final project which was called Staged to Sell, we needed to shoot photos of a product or a service that would be used as an advertisement, one with text the other without.
I think the bamboo tablet works very well, it looks a lot more serious than other ads that I have seen for the bamboo line of tablets. With the lighting of my ghetto studio it gave the tablet a really soft spot light toward the bottom of the tablet making it look very epic. The text I used worked out even better than I thought it would because it is basically labeling the product "An Extension of Your Creativity" I like it. I also looks as if it is waiting for you to pick it up and play with it.

As for the Chucks, these were a lot easier to sell as they are easily recognizable. I basically used the same lighting from the other photo but took the photo from a different angle. The light gave the the shoelaces a really rough texture which looks awesome. I used an old pair my own I didn't want to use new shoes because old ones just look better. Overall very epic.

About Reeks

I just want to tell anyone who stumbles across this page a little about where I come from and how I ended up here. I moved to Seattle from Carlsbad, New Mexico where I graduated high school and attended a community college for two years. I was unsure of what I wanted to do so I took a bunch of gen. ed. classes my first year. I found out that the school started doing teaching media productions and did a year of that. This was when I discovered I really enjoyed graphic design. I had to get out of that town, all my friends had already left to Albuquerque. I considered moving to Alb. but had a change of heart and moved here. My father lives about two and a half hours away and is helping me out while I live on my own. So I just started my third quarter at the International Academy of Design and Technology-Seattle...(sound like an asshole right?) I am going for an AA in Visual Communications which is basically a mix of graphic design and media classes. So far it is a lot fun, but also insanely stressful. I am enjoying school a lot it has changed the way I see things, for instance I now notice things that I never noticed before i.e. photoshopped photos, awful movie edits, good advertisements and horrible one.

So I am having fun for now, but I am contemplating moving to Albuquerque. I like it up here but I see myself getting more inspiration and ideas from my friends back in the Land of Enchantment. But until I finish my Vis. Comm. AA I will be up here in the meantime.

It's a New Year

resolution- a firm decision to do or not to do something: she kept her resolution not to see Anne anymore.

I haven't made a resolution since I was in 6th grade, and even then I never kept it.