Living the Creative Life

I actually decided to go with a completely different poster than the ones I showed you yesterday . We went over the requirements for the poster in class in a little more detail yesterday and I realized the posters I was gravitating towards wouldn't quite fit the bill. I ended up choosing this one instead. We basically have to make sure that the one we chose hasn't already been simplified, shapes-wise, because that's what our assignment is to do. So this one is more obviously painted, with lots of subtle shading, etc. Now I have to simplify the shapes and break it down in Illustrator. Last night I did two of the letters in the header! Lol. That's the easy part. ;P This weekend, I'll probably finish up the words and then start in on the background. I'm actually really looking forward to working on this assignment! Travel posters, and other similar types of posters, are such a cool art form. :)

One of our projects this coming term is to do a computer illustration of a painted vintage travel poster. I've been Googling some options and here are some that I like. Which would you pick?

Good morning, everyone! I see I have a few more followers since last week, so welcome, all! :) I've been running a Meet Someone New Monday blog hop for the last few weeks, and today is no exception -- I'm just a few hours late in posting it, so I apologize for that if anyone was looking for it! Today was my first day back at school so my focus was elsewhere. Lol. So as usual, link up and share with us a post that best exemplifies what you're about and what you've been up to lately! I can't wait to meet you all!

Wow it's Friday! Wherever has my week gone? Time flies when you're on Spring Break!! Yesterday I discovered a very fascinating art form called Zentangle. It's basically divvying up shapes into sections and then adding a basic repetitive pattern to each section. You can find out a lot about different pattern options on YouTube, or you can just make up your own! Here's the first one I did. It took about three hours and was done mostly with fine-tip Sharpie.

So basically what they're saying is... Mac people tend to be smarter and more artistic... Yeah, I'd have to agree w/ that. ;) via: Geek System

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My mom told me about this theory she heard on tv about how having a cell phone within 5 feet of your head while sleeping affects your brainwaves somehow and keeps you from entering a deep sleep. Always one to test out a theory on myself, I decided I'd try it out and see. I've used my cell phone as an alarm clock for probably 10 years but had never put that together with my sleeplessness tendencies. I wasn't sure that it would make a difference, but... it was an interesting theory so I thought I'd test it out. This afternoon I was sleepy and since I'm now on Spring Break, I decided to take a nap. I purposefully set my phone about 6 feet away from my bed (up on my desk instead of right on my bed-table, where it usually lives). I kid you not, I could feel myself drifting off to sleep almost instantly. I can't remember the last time that has happened - usually I toss and turn for hours first, before falling asleep, but I just figured that was something weird ab...