STA Work Blog

Adding the texture to the background was a cake walk. It was the cathedral and its MANY accents and colors that took up a lot of time. Despite the tedious nature of the task, I think it paid off! What do you think?

There are SO. MANY. LAYERS. I used so many clipping masks. This .psd file for this graphic is W I L D.

Oh I also added text! 🙂 I’ll work on this more on Monday. I think I’m gonna bring this into Adobe Illustrator and try out other fonts. I know that the client wants a version of this in Russian, but I’ll have to discuss that with Tate and Suloni on Monday. That’s all for this time!

Here’s some updates on the progress of this sticker. St. Basil’s cathedral is very tedious to draw.

A lot of the upcoming progress photos are mostly me drawing the cathedral and figuring out how to prevent Polina and Oleg from getting to lost in the background.

I preferred the version with the drop shadow for Polina and Oleg. It kind of makes them look like little paper cut outs. I also added more colors to the cathedral. I’m currently trying to figure out what size to make it. I’m also adding more green and cream accents to the towers. Suloni and Tate suggested that I add wood texture to the background and the cathedral to harken to the style of the world that Polina and Oleg came from. BUT that’s for next shift! That’s all for today 🙂

I was tasked to make a digital wall monitor display earlier this semester for the “This is Democracy”. It was going to be displayed behind the hosts of the podcast. Here are some progress photos of the process!

The above is what I proposed to them the first time around. However, it wasn’t meant to be because a lot of it was covered and didn’t advertise the podcast well while the hosts were present (see below).

So, I was then tasked to make a collage using screen shots of historical clips that were provided to me by the client. These were the end products.

I adjusted the way the collage looked because this was BAD. I don’t think the client was fond of it, and I can understand why. With Suloni’s guidance, I redid the collage and gave the client 2 different tints to choose from.

The above two were much cleaner and clearer. The client preferred the sepia-toned collage. However, when they took it for a test run it didn’t look too spectacular.

It was back to the drawing board. I warmed up the collage with a more red-orange tint in the hopes that it would prevent the display from being too washed out and yellow.

But to no avail. Adding a more orange tint wasn’t the move. It made the display look more yellow. It was then suggested that the original sepia tint be kept and used for the podcast.

I hope that they’re okay with the original collage.

Today was incredible, I create my first interactive in Canvasser with the aid of Estella (thank you so much). Also, I kept working in the Vue js code for the podcast site, now is possible to see the summary of each episode (name, date, author and guest) and display it when clicking in the title.

I sketched out a few icons for the different sections of Vlabs, and tried to make each image relate to the topic of each sections. They are meant to be simple black and white icons with flat colors, so I tried to make each image as concise as possible.

The illustrations in the first draft are a bit loose so I cleaned up the lines more in this second draft and simplified the icons even more.