He said it himself.

First ACL Posters!

For the first ones I tried to keep it pretty simple. Always open to feedback [:

Here's the band I'm going to be basing my posters off of for this ongoing project we're starting.
It's not exactly typical of music I like, but for some reason it works for me, so I'm going to roll with it and see where it goes!







Also: some inspiration. This beauty is from a blog I follow on Tumblr called black and wtf. They have the weirdest old black and white photos. They're great. (As far as blogs go, Tumblr is one of my favorites. You can follow me @ mmcgill.tumblr.com)












If you tumble and have a sense of humor, check out WordBoner too. classy name, right?

Drop Cap Week 1

I've always been really interested in block lettering and utilizing positive and negative space with type so I used block sanserif and eye charts as my inspiration for the first week.


















Inspirations:

Thank god for no more cardboard!!!

So here's the giant cheese grater! It'abour 6' tall but looks a little short here for some reason....

anyways,I'm glad it's all over!!!! Hope everyone has a fantastic break! Happy holidays [:

Fixed the uploading problems!

This was for a portfolio for a college that actually wasn't UD! ( I ended up using it for the portfolio here, too though... )

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Here's another ink drawing I did before the one above... practice for the technique I used

Project 4!

Here's my final image for the fourth project!
I used two images for the main part of the poster. The first was the picture of the powerplant. For this one, I made the sky red with color adjustments and darkned up portions of the towers to make them have a darker mood. I added several more inches to the canvas in black.

The second image was of a tree branch with several leaves and monkey balls ( those little spikey things on trees around here?) I adjusted the levels so the image was completely black, then selected the branch and inverted the colors so it was white.
I duplicated the image twice and transformed them so they looked slightly different, then arranged them in a way that I thought worked well. I also played with the opacities a little.

I made the text out of wire and scanned it in, then changed some of the letters into white or red for the bottom half of the poster [:

Overall I'm pretty happy with how things turned out! I'm not too sure how I like my text, but what's done is done. Hope you like!