c. billadeau

Whew!

So the main site has been finally given its long-overdue update and facelift. Images have been added and taken out of the main spread to better reflect my current work. Plus, I tweaked a few aesthetic details.

One of the big changes was adding the newscaster; it automatically synchs with this blog, so anything I post here shows up there. Man, I’ve been meaning to do that ever since I started this thing.

I still have one task I’d like to get completed in the next few days, and that would be creating an image graveyard for all old works to go to die. I haven’t decided on how it will work–whether it should be a mere copy of the current layout, something with smaller thumbnails, or another layout entirely. Anyway! That’s not necessary for the portfolio to function, so I declare this current version live. Lemme know if something’s broken.

So hay, apparently breaks are meant for fanart, because I DID IT AGAIN.

Hahaha, this had started as something of Doc Worth but somehow mutated into this little bugger. I love them both anyway, so it’s all good. All that means is that there will be MORE TO COME.

also: why are you still here you should be reading this right now

Man, Michael Paukner does it again:

Also thanks to Paukner: a link to a Flickr stream full of 1970s/1980s design. Airbrush-a-rific.

Final for an illustration class! When all else fails, I just remember what my friend Julia does (who needs to get a website up so I can link the shit out of it): make people’s heads explode with color.

I really, really wish I hadn’t done this during finals, because I had at least two other ideas that I wanted to continue on in a series of travel posters for these fictious lands of paradise. My next poster will be a sweet mix of 50s airline posters and Welsh/Arthurian mythology. And shitloads of Celtic knotwork.

That said, I’ve finished pretty much all of my finals for this semester. All I gotta do is pull a one-page essay out of my butt at some point in the next 24 hours and I am DONE. So winter break is hereeeeeeeee~

Sweet zombie Jesus, I never thought I would make it. I am serious; this semester has been harder than all of my other semesters combined. Looking forward to a peaceful yet productive break. At some point I will have to start planning/writing for my senior project (like a thesis paper, but for art kids) but that will be loads of fun if I choose the right subject to work with and not necessarily grueling work!

All right! Got a moment in class, so here’s those Target giftcard designs I promised.

My illustration class was actually able to work with an art director and a designer from Target (whose names escape me right now) for three weeks on these, getting fabulous feedback all along the way. They critiqued our work based on Target standards and were really serious about it. And honestly, I really enjoyed the hard news. As much as I like my MCAD career, honest critique is hard to come by. Professors and students alike seem to skip around that and like to pad everything with useless, “oh I like this a lot” things.

Anyway. All that aside, the Target guys apparently liked them a lot! Maybe I’ll get lucky and they’ll show it to their higher-ups, hmm hmm?

Rising from the dead to post things! Exciting. I am two finals away from being done with this awful semester. Both are due today and I have basically not slept in two days because of that. The joys of being an art kid.

Type specimen/promotional poster for the Arlen typeface; part of my typography final. Struggled for a long time on this one to get the textural effect how I wanted it, but I think I finally got it. My inspiration for that one is definitely to blame on Kevin Dart, hrr hrr.

Anyway, I’ve got some other finals and stuff floating around in my queue to post, including some Target giftcard designs, but I am still finishing the comp booklet that goes with this poster that is due in four hours ahhhh holy crap back to work