They Draw and Cook

Hey guys! If any of you remember awhile back I had mentioned that my "Guacamole Recipe" illustration was being published into a book. Well time has passed and the book is now available for PRE-ORDER! If you pre-order the book now you get 32% OFF. The retail price of this book is $19.95, but with pre-order you can have it for $13.57. So if anyone is interested in having a published version of one of my illustrations make sure to pre-order your book now!!! It contains 107 recipe illustrations from artists all around the world! So it will be a gem to have. The book is expected to ship out in either August or September.

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-Maegan

Word and Image

So here's the last couple assignments I worked on for my Word and Image class, pretty excited about the both of them!

The most recent one I finished was a two-page spread of a mock ABC book. We had to come up with a concept for the ABC book then think of 5 different spreads and finish one. I decided to do the ABCs of Sea Creatures. And here's my finish!

10.5"x16.5" Digital Media

And the other assignment I had was to redesign the cover of an existing book, preferably a book with a non-desirable cover. I picked up the Grimm's Fairy Tales book from the library that had a cover and illustrations drawn by young children with crayons, so I thought I'd give this one a shot. I got a lot of feedback after doing happy fairy tale images, to go darker since the Grimm's Fairy Tales were not all so innocent. This was my outcome.

9.5"x13.5" Watercolor and Digital

Glass Octopus

So our last day in the hot shop before we moved to silkscreening on glass, our teacher asked each of us what we wanted to make. Well, Dave bought me a beautiful glass octopus awhile back and I thought it would be fun to make my own. Obviously mine is a more "sculptural" approach, since I only had about 6 weeks glassblowing experience. But here's what we came up with.

I'm also extremely pleased to announce that I will be taking the Intermediate Glassblowing class next semester. So I can call myself a full time Illustrator, part time Glassblower. So exciting!

Glass Work

Here's some pictures of my very first glassblown cup.

And images of my first vase..

And my glass pumpkin!

Snooki of Liberty...beginning process.

This is the beginning of awesome. Look out for the finished.

Word and Image

So this semester I am taking a Word and Image class which is basically if Typography 1 and Illustration had a baby class. So the illustration elements of pictures that tell stories meshed with the design of adding words. Our first assignment was to create our own typeface, which proved to be a little harder and time-consuming than expected. We were also urged to use a tool other than the traditional pencil or marker to create our type. I made my alphabet using a screw, giving it that uneven creepy look.

Our second assignment for this class was to take a word that described our font, blow it up, and make an illustration inside the word. I chose the word "Frightful".

Glass Fishie!

So I picked up my wonderful in class project - my first glass fish! I made this during my Intro to Glass class, which I am absolutely amazed with! I love this class so much. It's so nice to have a class where I'm hands on working with something 3D, which as an illustrator, I do not get to do very often. This was the first things we made in the class, just getting used to using the tools and working with solid glass before we start blowing.

His eyes are a little wonky, it's hard to cut glass when the tool is kind of in your way of seeing what part you are actually cutting. It's funny because one eye points down and one eye points up. He's a google-eyed fish.

-Maegan