Live the Lifestyle Logo Design

Here is a new logo design I made for the Live the Lifestyle: Weight Management program. This logo was a fun one to do. Most of the challenge was in figuring out the best way to transition the colors from green to blue, spacing in general, and other little design elements. I did get to play a bit more with the gradient tool in Adobe Illustrator. For the concept, the client wanted to use a tree design and incorporate measuring tape into the design. She also wanted to make the 'L' from Lifestyle merge with the tree.Color-wise we tried some variations and decided that green and blue best reflected the healthy and calm feel that the client was going for. I am very pleased with how it turned out. Keep your eye out for the logo, it has been on Facebook quite a bit!

Live the Lifestyle Logo Design

**This logo is copyrighted to the client who commissioned it, do not use without permission!**

Logo Design Work

Design work updates:

Here are some of the logo designs I have been working on lately. They were all sketched by hand and later developed in Adobe Illustrator. This program is the best for logo designs since you can re-size the images without them getting blurry.

*All logos are copyrighted to the clients who commissioned them from me, do NOT use them with out permission*

This is a design for Queen City Sports and Social Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. Here I was representing both the city and the activities of the club. This club meets to play team sports like kickball and football, as well as meeting socially to have a drink or two. The logo has a few versions for different sports and uses. The ball that the mascot holds is different for each sport. Fun and challenging logo to work on.

Full Logo in Black and White

Mascot for Queen City Sports and Social Club in Color

 

 

Mascot for Queen City Sports and Social Club- Kicking Version

This next one is a logo design for the company RDM: Preservation and Revitalization. This design is for a local business in Richmond, Virginia that buys and restores various buildings. I really wanted to incorporate negative space into the design and I used it to create the white building in the center of the logo. Notice how the white building is created only with the edges of the other shapes around it. The colors of the logo are a reference to the positive energy of the company bringing buildings back to life and their push to 'go green' in their operations.

RDM logo design

The next logo was made for a local company called Karnes Heating and Air Conditioning which is based out of the Richmond, Virginia area. The concept was to incorporate/combine the client's love of river sunsets, relaxation, and the heating and air theme. This was done with a stylized sunset and water line to illustrate a sunset. The warm and cool colors and wavy breaks in the sun are a nod to heating and air. 

Visit this company on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/KarnesHeatingAndAirConditioning

Karnes Heating and Air Conditioning Logo

Here is a logo design for ABNIX: Delivery and Moving. This logo was designed for a local moving company in Richmond, Virginia before its start-up. The 'A' letter behind the business name was designed to look like an angel, to reference the loved one the company was named after.

ABNIX: Delivery and Moving Logo Design

*All logos are copyrighted to the clients who commissioned them from me, do NOT use them with out permission*

That is all for now more updates to come soon. Happy holidays and Happy New Year to everyone!

James Jean Presentation

For my Art Ed. class we have to give a presentation on a contemporary artist. For mine. I chose the painter/illustrator James Jean. I really love his work. His color choices, surrealist subjects, attention to detail and overall style really grab the eye and command attention. Jean has a totally unique way of approaching his subject matter and I find his work really inspiring. His website is www.jamesjean.com and his blog is www.processrecess.com. His blog is really great; Jean posts the stages of his art from thumbnail to final piece. It also goes back several years into his portfolio.

Well anyway here is the layout I made as a guide for my presentation board. The board is one of those that has three panels and stands up on its own. I also made a design for the back of the board, but I won't be using it because of the cost of printing the images large enough to fit the board.

This is the front of the display board that I will be using.

This is the design for the back that I won't be able to use. I thought it looked pretty cool though.

That's all for now

- Later

Illustrator Tutorial, Fall TV Premieres

Here is a little insight into how I work with Adobe Illustrator. This is a tutorial I made for converting a photo into an illustrator drawing. This is generally how I work in illustrator for the realistic pieces. I take my own reference photos and work from them. With other illustrations, like the previously posted Aesop illustrations, I make a line drawing traditionally, scan it in, adjust levels in photoshop, do a live trace in illustrator to vectorize the image, and then I proceed in the same manner described in the tutorial. Later, I add in textures in photoshop. Enjoy.

On a side note I just finished watching the premiere of Grey's Anatomy. It was a total tear jerker. If you haven't watched it and consider yourself sensitive, grab your tissues. It did have some humorous parts including Callie walking nonchalantly past Mark's girlfriend into the bathroom, while he was taking a shower, to ask him a question and when Izzie had her usual inappropriate reaction to sad issues- She left the funeral service to go bust out laughing and the others joined in as well. Just like the narration says, everyone has their own way of passing through the stages of grieving. RIP George, we'll miss you!!!

Flashforward was pretty good too, but I'll reserve judgement until the plot has progressed some more. The one man who was conscious while the rest of the world blacked out is really interesting, so is the depiction of what would happen if people blacked out- cars, planes, and helicopters crashing, surfers drowning, the surgeons passing out. A lot of these I wouldn't have thought about. Some of the characters said the blackout was a blessing, but I kept thinking: not for the people who died during the blackout. I also got the impression that TV is showing more graphic images than it used to, whether that is good or bad I haven't decided yet.

-Heroes was pure awesomeness! The speedster with the knives and the tattoo manipulator were my favorite new additions. I'm glad Danko is gone, I never really cared for him to begin with. As always Hiro, Ando, and Sylar were fun to watch. I busted out laughing at the point when Hiro and Ando were called to save a cat and Hiro froze his own time. Ando rolling him around on a dolly was priceless. The compass thing and the burial of an unknown character were a little odd, but its too soon for those explanations. I intend to enjoy the ride for now. I also thought it was funny that two characters from Days of our Lives were on there and they both didn't last long either, they were the water delivery man Matt sent away and Claire's 1st roommate that died.

LOOOONG Overdue Update

This update has been long in coming. I'm adding pretty much all the finished illustrations I did during this past Spring that I already had digital files for. All of them are a mix of traditional, photoshop, and illustrator techniques. Anything I forget or have to photograph will be added later.

Also I will be trying to post updates daily now, but they all won't strictly be art updates. With out further adieu here is my art dump, enjoy!! :)

Editorial Illustration from February about how Obama has to deal with a lot of national security changes that Cheney made, while in office, and whether or not he should get rid of them, or keep them as is.

Ed. Illustration also from Feb. that draws comparisons between the inaugurations of President

Obama and President Roosevelt (FDR not Teddy).

-I know I need to work on the likeness in these illustrations, but they were my first attempt

at drawing a celebrity, oh well live and learn. :)

Ed. Illustration about Chinese search engine, Baidu, which is the largest search engine in China (their logo is the dog paw print by the way). Baidu has been basically killing the traffic to sites that refuse to buy ads from them, which effectively kills those businesses in the process.

Ed. illustration that discusses human evolution and its roots in Africa.

Illustration of Aesop's The Old Lion. In the fable, the lion is too old to hunt so he feigns illness to trick passing animals to come into the cave to help him. When they come in, he eats them. One day, a fox passes by and calls out to the lion. The lion asks why the fox won't come closer and the fox says that he has noticed that all of the animal tracks lead into the cave, but none come back out.

-I've always wondered how the next scene would play out, would there be an awkward silence or a sudden chase?

Illustration of Aesop's The Wolf and the Crane. As the story goes, the wolf gets a bone caught in his throat and promises the crane a reward, if he will use his long beak to get it out. The crane does so and the wolf starts to leave. The crane asks for his reward and the wolf tells him that being able to stick his head in a wolf's mouth and live to tell the tale is reward enough.

-I've come to realize Aesop's fables are all kind of violent. I didn't really remember them being that way when I was little, go figure.

That's all for now, check back tomorrow for more!

Ist POST!!!

Hey everyone,

The new blog is up and running!! Here are some samples of my work. I'll add more later after I've gone through my files some more. 

~Kelly

Coke ad - Illustrator 

Seven Samurai movie poster- Photoshop

Cat cards design- Illustrator

Conceptual self-portrait, I just had to do a sheltie :) - Photoshop

Self-portrait - Illustrator