happy holidays

happy holidays, everyone
its been a great year

hey friends

heck out the daily drop cap by Jessica Hische! so beautiful! she's got a bunch of them and includes the html code to place it in your blog! what a great idea. In other news, I'm procrastinating working on my school projects, and i really should get to work. right now. after i go downstairs and get some chocolate covered almonds. what is it with those things?!

hello blog, i've missed you.

WIWT november 3, originally uploaded by bunnyjrobot.

this is quick post to just let you all know what i wore today & show you my muppet hands. i use them to do big work.
speaking of big work. there's a show coming up. portland state friends of graphic design is putting it on, and i'm gonna have a few little things in it.
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hope to see you there!!

xo

september 17

september 17, originally uploaded by bunnyjrobot.

what i wore today. well yesterday, actually. but whatevs.

september 16

september 16, originally uploaded by bunnyjrobot.

i look a little like sloth from Goonies in this one.

september 15

september 15, originally uploaded by bunnyjrobot.

what i wore today. quick & dirty. literally. its a boring outfit, but i'm committed, so there it is. maybe tomorrow i'll be looking a little better. maybe i should just draw amelia's outfits, she's cute all the time.

september 14

september 14, originally uploaded by bunnyjrobot.

okay, so i'm doubling up today so i can be caught up. today i went to school to turn in some paperwork. it was the first time i'd been around campus in a while & just being there made me excited about school starting up again soon! at the same time, i'm a little sad, we've had such a fun summer i don't know if i'm really ready to say goodbye and get back to work just yet. i've got a few more weeks, i guess. tomorrow, the people writing stories for the Portland Spectator (the student run magazine i work for) are supposed to have their rough drafts in. i want to get working... it goes to press the 28th. same day school starts... this will be my first issue doing the art direction. i'm looking forward to it.

september 13

september 13, originally uploaded by bunnyjrobot.

sunday was a really fun day. Alma midwifery had their annual picnic at Creston park which is right down the street from where jake & i used to live. my sister & her babies met us there. its fun to see the midwifes and talk about babies and see all the new babies... babies, babies, babies! and lots of yummy food. after that, all of us biked to NE and hung out, went to a coffee shop, went to an expensive hipster thrift store where there were lots and lots of cute things. i bought a scarf. & some awesome shoes, but i'm getting ahead of myself... i need to start working on today's drawing...

also, sometimes when i blog from flickr it chops my picture like it did on this one, you can click for the full size or click where it says 'by bunnyjrobot' and you'll go to my flickr page...

september 11

september 11, originally uploaded by bunnyjrobot.

so i solved the problem with drawing hands, (not mittens) just put them behind my back. the skirt i'm wearing is made of two of my favorite t-shirts, one is from some school or maybe a camp in vermont, and the other is a neil diamond concert t-shirt. i wore this skirt a bunch when i was preggo because it was so stretchy and comfy, its also really cool. cool, cool. well, its both kinds of cool. whatever. today its supposed to be super hot. in the 90s or something! i'm so glad because i was worried we weren't going to get to use the baby pool again this summer. i still need to get better at drawing hands, but i'll save that for another day. i'm off to go eat some leftover pad thai!

september 10

september 10, originally uploaded by bunnyjrobot.

so, its not every day, but i'm trying. it actually takes a lot longer than i thought to draw, scan & color a picture. maybe i'll start trying out different methods. also, i have a hard time drawing hands and feet. i think this happens to a lot of people. i'd like to just draw a circle at the end of the arm, but that's not going to work.

september 8

september 8, originally uploaded by bunnyjrobot.

this is a day late, i realize. i plan on doing this daily or as close to daily as possible. i need to draw more. this will give me something to draw & make me better at figure drawing.

my zine

my zine, originally uploaded by bunnyjrobot.

i just finished. its a really good feeling to have finished something. it feels like i haven't done much of that this summer.
now hopefully tomorrow goes well, i'm working @ the psu graphic design program's table at the zine symp. i'm bringing amelia. i sure hope she's down for it.

++UPDATE++
i forgot to mention that if you want a copy of my zine, its only TWO DOLLARS! let me know and i can mail one.

also, amelia had a great time @ PZS

i'm a little late posting this...

i'm more of a skeptic myself.

i think more because i love a good conspiracy than anything else.

*click for larger view.

look up....

hello again.
if you look at my blog through your google reader you should go look at the actual blog because i changed my headline picture thingy banner whatever you call it. anyway, its really cute. i made it using a scanned drawing and photoshop. i used to be afraid of photoshop, but after messing around with it tonight i'm a lot less afraid. ok, that's all, just a quick little update.

zine-a-rama

hello friends.



i really can't believe that july is halfway done! this summer its been a bit hard to get any of my big art projects done, or started, for that matter... but one thing that i WILL be doing is putting together a zine and selling it at the portland zine symposium! woot! (if any of you are in Portland, come check it out!) my zine is going to be a collection of self portraits that i drew while i was pregnant with amelia.

one of the best pregnancy books that jake and i read (and we read a bunch of them) was this zine called Placenta Zine. i don't know who made it or if there are any others, but it was a really sweet zine with birth stories, and basically how to be a radical parent.

i think my zine is going to be my tribute to Placenta Zine, in a way, although i'm not sure if i'll have much text, i think its mostly going to be to story of my pregnancy told through drawings. i'm also thinking that if i can pull it off, i'll put together another little zine of some illustrated conversations that i have in some of my sketch books. here's a little preview of some of the drawings that will be in my zine...

also, the link to pdx zines

hello kitty

hello kitty
tuns thirty-five this year! i have loved hello kitty and all of her little friends for a very long time. i remember spending hours in the Sanrio stores looking at all the little treasures. the anniversary website is amazing, they have cataloged all kinds of hello kitty merchandise from all of the years. its wonderful. i could seriously be on there for hours looking for things that i used to have. obsessed. literally, i'm obsessed with it. if only i still had my hello kitty stamp set...

me & the babies

me & the babies, originally uploaded by jake_mrtnz.

today was my last day of watching liam. it was a lot of fun to get to hang out with him. he and amelia had lots of fun playing together (basically squishing each other, drooling, and in amelia's case stealing toys from liam) it was a great week. and now, to get back to working on the business end of my life...

summer times.

YAY for summer!

amelia & i have been very busy now that i'm done with school & jake is back on the study train. we spent all of last week playing with my mom, and the two cousins, ben & liam. this week, liam is playing over at our house all week (grandma left & ben's outta town). its good times. we call it cousin club. well, i call it cousin club. i like to make clubs, so does my sister. it goes way back to the old days. other than going to the park and playing babies, i've been trying to finish up a project that's been going on since my typography class started. they're initial pendants made from a typeface i created. here's a picture. they're not quite done, but its a start. there'll be more about how i made them & possibly painting on the letters as i get them finished.





this is the letter f. for fun, francis, or fiona.

final finally finalized.

weesh.I didn't know if i was going to make it out of this term with all of my hair, as of this post (and maybe a few more organizational things) i'm done. hopefully. there might be some loose ends here and there...BUT-- My poster series is done, and that's all that's important right now.
I made a series of three posters based on the artist/graphic designer/illustrator/sculptor/accordian player Leo Lionni. he's a great fellow, and i really enjoyed learning about him. I based the structure of each of my posters on a design he did for the MOMA exhibition book The Family of Man (1955). I used it as a framework to show some of his other design work, illustration, photography, sculpture, children's books, and paintings. He really did a lot of stuff, kind of a jack of all trades, that Leo. The text that i used was from his autobiography (between two worlds) and from AIGA's article on him. I set all my text in Century School book because read somewhere that he really liked it.
here's me series:

so, i made these book covers a while back and i totally forgot to blog about the

frankenstein book cover, originally uploaded by bunnyjrobot.

The assignment was to pick three penguin classics books and design a set of book covers. I chose the scary set, dr. Jekyll & mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, and Dracula. I chose them mostly because I had read the stories before ( well, in the case of frankenstein, i'd seen the bride of frankenstein... close enough) anyway, i felt like i had enough of an idea about the stories to be able to create some cool book covers.
i got my images for Dracula & Frankenstein from books in the library that were essays on each of the books. the frankenstein picture is my favorite of the bunch, its someone's weird interpretation of franken-people that came out around the time Mary Shelly's book did.
The technique i used for getting my images to look the way they do is a printmaking technique called Van Dyke. you get a negative transparency of the image, and expose it to paper that has the Van Dyke solution painted on it using a very high watt light table. i learned to do it this term in my intermediate bookbinding class.
I used bodoni as the typeface for my book covers in bold, regular and italic. I chose it because its got that classical feel, but still keeps things neat and simple.
I struggled with how to place the title on my book covers - you can see the different attempts i made by looking through my photostream. eventually i settled on this 'tag' set at the edge of each book slightly askew. i'm still not really sure if i love it, but eh, it works. i think this is one of those projects that i'd really like to come back to when i've learned a little bit more and see what i'm able to do with it. again, to see my progress in this project or to view the other two book covers in the series, please check out my flickr photostream.