Company Stensil

For my stencil, I chose Abercrombie & Fitch as my company. This company aggravates me to no end, putting forth offensive and degrading policies and products. In their stores they refuse to stock any clothes over a size "large", sell jeans only up to size 10, and only hire attractive, young, and fit employees, or more accuratley, "models" to show off "how people should look." The company got a ton of flack for their CEOs offensive statements, some of which including, "Our stores don't stock plus sizes as we want to maintain a hip, and attractive customer base." Sales have dropped dramatically because of statements like this, and the company saw a profit loss of over 61 million dollars a year.

For my parody logo, I decided to go with Waffle House.

In 2012, the CEO of the company, was accused of demanding sexual acts from a female employee in order to keep her job. In 2013, two more women came forward, stating they had also faced sexual harassment. In August, he was brought to a court case that involved a sex tape. What is aggravating is that he STILL retains his position. This is a terrible act that he should have had more consequences for.

Doblin Discrimination Matrix

For my Doblin Discrimination Matrix, I chose to do Trading Card Games. I personally play a lot of different trading card games(TCGs for short) and have a lot of experience with various different series of them.

Below is each entrie's text:

Trash


Disposable


Vernacular


Badmass


Goodmass


Clean


Flash

Richtrad


Pro

Gig Posters

For my gig posters, I chose to do Lapfox Trax, an independant music developer from Hamilton, Ontario. The tracks are composed by one man under various different aliases that reflect the different style of each. On the first poster, I made it showcasing a show for five of his aliases. First from left to right, Renard, plays mainly a sporadic genre known as breakcore. Jackal Queenston mainly produces Drum & Bass. Mayhem produces Techno and Electronic Music. FIAB creates more bubbly and high tempo electro music. And finally, The Quick Brown Fox creates a genre called speed core, a blurringly fast paced sound. The other two posters are for two of the aliases above, Renard, and Mayhem.

Skateboard Final Designs

For my skateboard designs, I decided to use some of my old drawings as inspiration. 

1.I used an old drawing from at least a year ago. The board's colors mainly reflect the character's actual apparel. 

2. The second board is part of the trio of boards below in this post. This one shares the background design of the first one but has a smaller icon that represents the laid back personality of the character above and the "cool" feeling blue gives off.

3. This is the second board of the trio. Orange and reds are very energetic in my opinion, so I matched the icon accordingly.

4. Another board inspired by an old drawing. The character was a tech savvy gamer, and I associate hexagons with technology for some reason. I also think of the color green, explaining the color scheme.

5. The final board in the trio. The inspiration character was a shark so I went for an aggressive icon because of the character's competitive nature. Plus...shark.

Here is some illustrator practice of a hallway. Pretty interesting stuff.

                                        My Version

                                        Original

Violin Practice

Here is a violin...and...yeah, that's really it.

Real Advertisement Project

Reflection
1.  In what forms can advertisement appear?
Advertisement comes in many forms. They come in mainly auditory and visual form. You here auditory advertisement when you listen to commercials on tv or the radio, or when you here a commercial's signature jingle or slogan. You can see visual advertisments all around you. Posters, icons, newspaper clippings, posts on the internet, and billboards.

2. Can an image persuade someone to act?
It can. Visual imagery can be very moving, very motivating, or very persuasive. Single pictures or images can evoke or convey very strong feelings though what is seen.

3. Should advertisements be regulated by the government?
There should be regulations on certain content being posted. Advertisements should not degrade, undermine, or devalue people without a strong, legal, and non offensive cause. They should not convey overly gory, lewd, offensive, or any other inappropriate type of content. But These regulations shouldn't impede on a person's right to opinion or freedom of speech, and should not ban advertisements due to other parties wishing so for their own personal gain.

Personal Self Portrait

What You're Looking At

1. Sweatshirt: I love to wear hoodies, sweatshirts, and jackets.
2. MP3 Player: I listen to music almost constantly. I pop in my headphones in the morning and fall asleep to music on my speaker at night.
3. Playstation Logo: Most of my all time favorite games came out as a Playstation exclusive, so I have a bit of an affinity for Sony
4. Digital Drawing Pad: I love drawing and I constantly use digital drawing software to do so.
5. Bernese Mountain Dog: One of my favorite breeds and one i'd love to have when I'm older.
6. Beanie: I love wearing beanies more than other hats, especially if they have a bill.
7. Fox Half: One of my favorite things to draw are furry things like dogs, cats and pandas, especially foxes.
8. Anime half: I consider my drawing style very similar to that of standard anime stuff. I can do other styles to fit certain things, but it's the one I know the best.
9. Koeniggsegg CCXR (The Car): My absolute favorite car at the current time. It is also one nobody else knows, which is a good and a bad thing. It's unique, but you can't mention it to anyone cause they don't even know what it is. 
10. California: My homestate
11. Ice cream: Vanilla Ice cream is probably one of my favorite desserts.
12. Snowflake: I love the snow! If it wasn't so cold and dangerous to drive in, I'd move to Alaska just to be around it more.
13. Nascar Emblem: I like to watch it when I can. I used to spend early mornings watching it with my dad.
14. Game controller: I love video games. So much so that I am dedicated to finding a career in Game Development and Design.
15. Crunchy Roll Logo: A site and application dedicated to the streaming of anime shows and movies as well as good old asian classics like IP Man. I love anime and enjoy drawing, watching, and listening to it.
16. Cartoon Network Logo: I grew up on Cartoon Network. Courage the Cowardly Dog, Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, this channel used to be my jam.
17. Night City Background: I'm all about that night life...at least when it comes to strolling around at night. There is something so cool and almost comforting about the soft, orange glow that bathes the city streets at night.

Reflection

1. In this project, the goal was to create an embodiment and representation of yourself and the interests you feel define you. It's an exercise in creativity and analyzation of your basic photoshop skills.
2. For me, the process worked out very well. I use photoshop in projects and just personal work all the time. With this prior experience, I was able to get the project done with relative ease.
3. The most challenging part for me was finding the images. A handful of pictures were very grainy or just ended up not suited for the project. 
4. If I was going to do this project over again, I would probably look to design the picture itself in a different way. Use a different background, choose different items, that sort of stuff.
5. Photoshop is a great program. With it you can cut out a section from an image, shape, color, resize, and edit it to whatever preference you'd like, and paste it effortlessly on to another image, creating all sorts of cool thing.
6. As a career, I want to go into Digital design specifically for video games. This is a rudimentary and useful skill to have, as it will have real world application in my career.