#tbt: Starving Street Artist

 

For Thursday, this is a throwback from about 5 years ago...there was nothing I wanted more at the time than to storyboard for Walt Disney Studios, so I spent hours practicing my cartooning skills. Storyboarding is still something I dream of doing one day. 

 

This is the front panel for the die-line for a coffee bag that I am currently working on. This is work in progress for sure...any thoughts? I have to use the logo seen here (for Cuyahoga Coffee Company) which makes it a little hard to balance with the graphics and the sans serif type that I chose. (P.s. I apologize for the image quality! This is how it downloaded on Blogger and it doesn't appear there's much I can do about it....)

I'm starting this blog because in late September of this year I suddenly found myself without a job...being unemployed is not the greatest feeling, but it certainly has given me the push to explore new ways of get my name out into the world as a designer and an artist. Hopefully starting something like this is a link to getting my work noticed by the art and design communities...and hopefully developing clients who will be able to use what I have learned for their design needs.

At the moment, I'm a student; I've been a student for about three years now, studying Studio Arts and Graphic Design at Cleveland State University for a year before moving on to Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) where I took up Graphic Design again, and hopefully will be graduating in the Spring of '15. Though, these past three years are not the only years that I've spent focused on my artwork. For as long as I can remember, I've been drawing, and have spent hours upon hours self-teaching myself and being taught by artists outside of college.

Not to go into too much detail on the first post...I'll leave it at that! As this blog develops, I will share artwork and design work as I create, and hopefully, spread the word across the blogesphere for anyone who may be seeking out quality, original designs.