Sgt. Schlepper Who Needs Hearts Band Tour and After Party

Spring Break!! It'ss almost over... =( But Wednesday, I went and had little adventures in LA. Danielle and I went to the El Rey Theater and saw Bad Rabbits, XV, Black Cards, Donnis, and Travis McCoy perform. Followed by Tim William's after party performance at Hemingway's. Had to borrow my brother's point and shoot camera. =/ It felt weird not being able to control anything on the camera. But nonetheless, his camera is pretty awesome and I got some nice shots anyway. Without further ado, here are a few shots. More available on my Flickr.

Elvis Week Magazine Ad

Designed an ad for VH1's Elvis Week. It's meant to go into a Rolling Stone magazine. I had a hard time picking between the two variations below. I love the image on the left. It's so dynamic and Elvis. But, the right side works better typographically as well as having a better composition.

Some parameters included: 3 color print, incorporate the VH1 logo, reminescent of 1950s Elvis

DC Photos Finally Uploaded

Yeah, yeah... I know I'm super late. But I just finished editing photos from Washington, D.C. part of my December vacation to the east coast. I still have New York and snow photos to go through.

We went once to DC during the night for a night shoot (VERY cold!) and I realized that I really like doing long exposure night shots. They are sometimes hard to figure out what exposure/aperture to shoot at but I love how they look. I need to find time during spring break to do a little shooting.

CSUF Visual Arts Poster

Pretty self-explanatory. Objective was to make a poster for the Visual Arts Department at CSUF.

I was taking the idea and style of... I guess it's Russian Revolutionist era? Basically, inspired by those political posters using similar style and applying that sentiment in a more contemporary setting. The text is such a big thing to handle. I'm still not satisfied with it.

I have two weeks to improve the poster and resubmit the project so, there will be changes and actually, the version I brought into class is already slightly different.

Final Kit Hinrichs Poster

Here's the final version of the Kit Hinrichs poster. The peoples are picking the winning poster this weekend. Anxious to see who's going to get picked!

Kit Hinrichs Posters

First comps of a poster I'm designing. Kit Hinrichs is guest speaking at my school next month. Already made some changes to it during class today. Final one due next week so I'll be posting that when I'm done.

Basically, from my research, one of the things Kit Hinrichs is known for (besides being an awesome designer) is his signature beard. I also read that he is a fan of paper and paper making. He used to design annual reports for a paper company. So, my thought was to recreate his beard out of paper. But my professor also pointed out that there's a connection with the paper idea to how the even is about story telling.

I'm actually kind of excited to see how this is coming along. I hope that my poster gets picked for the event. That would be so awesome. And I'm excited to go to this event. =)

Spring 2011 Semester

ART 483F - Design/Interactive Art - Mondays/Wednesdays 9:00am-11:45am
ART 483A - Special Studies, Graphic Design - Mondays 1:00pm-6:45pm
HIST 180 - Survey of American History- Tuesdays 7:00-9:45pm
ART 495 - Internship in Art- Thursdays 1:00-6:45pm

Last full semester! After this semester, I'll have one class left plus some writing test and I'm done. Wow.

Excited for what this semester is going to bring. A bit nervous since this is like the end of the line! Scared and hopeful for what comes next.

Wedding Portraits

After finishing final projects last semester, I was working on portraits of the wedding party for my cousin's wedding. They came out pretty well I think. Especially since I hadn't drawn in a while. Something I intend to get back into.



Photo courtesy of Justin Sun.

Straight A's!!!

Finally, after nine semesters at Cal State Fullerton, I've finally reached my goal of getting straight A's! YAY! You don't know how happy that makes me. I know, once I get out there, it's not going to matter that I got straight A's.. it's all going to count on my portfolio but I'm so happy because I put so much effort into this semester and it shows in my grades. =) I mean, it's not a 4.0 since I have two A-'s but I am still extremely happy! =D

Here's to another great semester in 2011.

Society of Illustrators Competition

Link: Society of Illustrators, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles

Well, I may have missed the Society of Illustrators LA competition but not the one in NY! =) Actually, for that one, my school has to submit it as a group. My professor wants to submit the mosaic I made (it's a gift for someone so I'll post it after I send it to them). I'm so excited to enter it in! I need to think of a name for it though. I might just leave it as the person's first name... although, that seems a little drab to me.