Creature Concept

A recent assignment in my art class involved fantasy creatures. As per usual, my teacher went straight into cartoon-styled creatures, a drawing style I never really liked. Instead, I enjoyed creating realistic creatures, each with an evolutionary background and history. They were all biologically possible and plausible, and this was not the first time I've decided to create an entire virtual alien ecosystem. But this time, I started off with a single creature only, and here it is:

That there is a pencil sketch of my creature design. I'll follow this up with more pictures and designs. Hope you enjoy it!

Innovation Project

For a recent history project, my teacher assigned us a project to improve people's lives in the time frame of 1890 - 1910. We could do this in the form of an invention, whether it be a technological invention, or inventing a new law or social system. I chose to do a technological invention, this being solving the fires that happened on steamships such as the Mackinaw in 1890.

Here is a brief diagram of my invention.

Warning: If you do not want to read through my following brief technical explanation, this post ends here.

The steam engine now does not only supply power for the transport system but help as a fire retardant device. Its pistons will power a pump at the bottom of the ship, diverting water to a main water tank. This in turn distributes water to a pump system which permeates throughout the ship, leading the water to essential hotspots, such as on the deck, near the crew quarters, and by the steam engine itself.

Marketing Campaign

My teacher had given my group and I an assignment 2 weeks before, an assignment where we need to think of a marketing campaign for a selected product and then create actual advertisements for it. Each member of my group had to choose a specific form of media for our ads, and I chose a magazine ad. The other thing about the whole marketing campaign was that we also had to calculate the prices associated with said ads. I found out a full-page magazine ad costs around $300,000. Given that I was planning on running this ad for 2 months, for magazines that have an issue once a month, I would put it in both of the magazines, but for magazines who have issues every week, I would only keep it in for four weeks. Here is my ad below:

After tinkering around with my ad for a bit, I realized that without anything else, the Photoshop icon and the wisps surrounding it would look really cool by itself, so I came up with this as well:

Perhaps Adobe will thank me for my ads. Who knows?

Mother's Day

I had just finished this drawing in time for Mother's Day, which is tomorrow. My art class teacher gave us a rose drawing to draw three weeks ago, but I haven't really worked on it until last week. Here, have a look.

Logo Concept - Arcani

My friend opened a conversation with me recently, asking for a logo concept. I gladly accepted, what else can I do when I'm not doing my homework, right?

After a couple minutes pouting over ideas, he gave me a rough concept of a logo idea:

It soon went from that to this:

And then this:

And finally, after 30 minutes of tweaking the font and logo around, I came up with the final design:

Arcani. Break free. That's its motto. Pretty dang awesome if you ask me.

Interesting Cloud

The other day, while hanging out with my friends practicing their dance project, we saw this heart-shaped cloud in the sky:

No, I'm not kidding you. We saw a heart-shaped cloud in the sky.

All in all, it was a nice day. It would've been even better if we saw this on Valentine's Day. Did I mention we did?

Just kidding.

Logo Concept - Teturia

A friend of mine showed me a rough sketch for a logo idea today. I did a few changes here and there, and my end result is shown here. Props to him for coming up with this in the first place.