Faux-losophy Thesis Update!

I made some changes to the t-shirt designs that I posted recently.  Below are the three final designs that I will be printing for this semester in three different color options.

Thesis Part 2: Faux-losophy Revisited

So, for my thesis project this semester (a.k.a. my last semester!) I'm revisiting the Faux-losophy Tees project.  But things will not be what they were before.  The design style for the t-shirts will be much more hand lettering based (which I'm excited for because I enjoy hand lettering).  Below are a couple of sketches that I did this week:

And, as a bonus, here's something I just did for fun:

Finals

It's getting to the end of all my major projects for the semester and I have some final products to share!

First off -- T-SHIRTS ARE DONE!!!  And ready to be sold at Art Market!  So, please stop by and check them out for yourself!

 

Next up is a holiday/promotional postcard that I made for Concepts.  I had a lot of fun with this (if you couldn't tell) and I'm actually having some professionally printed.  Hopefully those will turn out well - let me know if you want one!

And my final update for the day is a project that I've been working on with another student (Brittany Roger) for out Biodiversity class.  We made a three-dimensional energy pyramid for the kid's room at the Patapsco State Park Visitor Center.  The pyramid illustrates the four main trophic levels (producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers).  Brittany and I each illustrated five different species, and, yes, all six sides are covered for each cube.

 These are my final sketches for the five species that I illustrated (Indian Grass, Blue-eyed Grass, Foxtail, Deer-tongue Grass, and a Barred Owl).  Each species has three views.

 

So, those are my most recent finished pieces.  Now to complete the rest of my finals...  Winter break could not come any sooner!

Murals!

Here's another piece for Concepts that I just finished.  Our assignment was to design a mural for a building of our choice.  I chose the H. Furlong Baldwin Library which is part of the Maryland Historical Society and located in Mt. Vernon.

The proposed mural:

 What it might look like on the building:

 

Side note: I have begun t-shirt production on my faux-losophy shirts!!  But!... I overestimated my skills at screen printing and ended up ruining four shirts because I tried to screen print in my apartment in a makeshift kind of way.  So, from now on I'm going to not be lazy and actually make my way down to the Dolphin Bulilding so I can use the screen printing classroom in there.  Hopefully, I'll have better luck that way and not waste so many t-shirts.

Anyway, Thanksgiving is almost upon us and I can't wait to go home!!  I'm very ready to spend a little time away from Baltimore and the stress of college life.  Florida and delicious holiday food, here I come...!

Faux-losophy!

Another thing I'm working on this semester is ... t-shirts!
Basically, it all started over the summer during my Birthright trip in Israel.  A friend I met on the trip and I decided that we wanted to make t-shirts out of these funny, profound-sounding quotes that he and another friend were making up throughout the trip.  And it just so happened that, for one of my illustration credits, I signed up for a class called The Lab, where we have to make a product to sell at the MICA Art Market.  So, it was a no brainer that I decided to make these funny, profound-sounding t-shirts.  Thus, I give you - Faux-Losophy Tees

(the tag that will be attached to the t-shirts)

(the t-shirt designs themselves:)

Note: The first design (A Man Without A Face Cannot Grow A Beard), when blown up to actual size, should be in proportion to your face so that when you lift the collar of the shirt the mouth is in proportion to your mouth.

And now that I have the designs, I'm going to start playing around with what colors the shirts will be.  So, hopefully, a post about that will be coming soon.

Hope everyone is having a great Saturday!

Grace



Faux-losophy credit goes to: Jesse Grossman and Max Kritzer