Stephanie - Chocolate Art

I was looking up chocolate images for another project when I found some pretty interesting chocolate sculptures.  I thought it was awesome how detailed and manipulative artists can be with chocolate.  The pyramid one is the largest chocolate sculpture in the world.  It is a thirtieth of the actual size of a Mayan temple, with a height of 6 feet and a base of ten feet by ten feet.

Pat Perry

 

Pat Perry is a favorite artist of mine. He is an artist and an illustrator. He has a blog attached to his website: http://patperry.net/blog/ It shows all the variety of his work. He posts sketchbook pages, photographs of his travels, and his commercial work as well. Some places he has clients are, Urban Outfitters, Bonaroo, and New York Times.

Brushes~

Hi All,

I've spoken to many of you about using different brushes, so I googled some and these have awesome brushes for you to use and many of them are composions in themselves! Work smarter not harder! And don't stress out. This poster is going to be one of your favorite pieces when you're finished.

http://www.multyshades.com/2011/06/65-high-quality-adobe-illustrator-brushes-and-pattern-sets/

http://www.littleboxofideas.com/blog/design-resources/free-vector-illustrator-patterns-resources-201

http://alethiologie.deviantart.com/art/Abstract-Brushes-65927513

Diego; Awesome Sugar Skull

Stephanie: Hair Tutorial: How To 'Vectoize' Hair from a photo

Kelsie: Pattern Rotation..saves time!

cool site I found

Here's an awesome site that I've been using for a couple years now that is a really good art database as well as a site to find and buy art work whether it's an iphone case, labtop cover, art canvas, poster, or even a t-shirt.  Check it out.

Bone Sculptures by Francois Robert

Thought this was kinda cool, this photographer created a series of pictures in which he arranged human bones into different sculptures...the series is titled "STOP THE VIOLENCE" 

http://www.chihuly.com

I stumbled across this website. His shapes are very organic and they are made of glass! I took a glass blowing class once and it was awesome.


http://www.jimwarren.com/site/

Jim Warren...imaginative, inspiring and just plan cool.

http://www.hydecollection.org

This museum is located near my house...some of my photographs have been selected in their annual student select show. They accept almost any type of media into their gallery which makes it a good, diverse showing. 

Pentagram

http://www.pentagram.com/work/#/all/all/newest/

Stefan Sagmeister

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/stefan_sagmeister_shares_happy_design.html


http://www.ted.com/speakers/stefan_sagmeister.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2207943/Apple-fans-look-away-Artist-places-iPod-Nanos-train-takes-hammer-iPad-handgun-iPhone.html
This is a cool link cause it shows people creating art out of broken apple products

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/fruit-crafted-animals/
It's cool to see what people can do with fruit

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/04/100-beautiful-illustrator-artworks-by-artists-around-the-world/
The last link is a shows a lot of different artists, and the different ways they've used illustrator

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/23401/bubble-wrap-typography-by-lo-siento.html/

I thought this was really cool and innovative.

http://twentytwowords.com/2011/03/14/7-minimalistic-posters-representing-various-mental-disorders/

I thought this was pretty clever and inventive, and i like how it is "minimalistic".

http://www.good.is/post/good-design-daily-are-minimalist-brands-the-future/

Another piece on minimalism, and how it could be the future for brands and advertising. I think it could very well be true, if there is a way for people to focus on one simple thing instead of many components in a piece of advertising.

This blog displays the work of some really talented and diverse artists...

http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/

this particular piece is brilliant

this is the cutest manicure ever

Jenn Pedersen

Making the pieces to go into the template so far hasn't gotten to hard, I feel like I seem to find new tools and use different tools from the tutorials. I also have been using online tutorials to make different concepts that are in my sketch book. 

This one I just had the idea of light and how a picture can be captured. 

 

& This idea, found online I am attempting to make to show the shutter and different aspects of how cameras function 

My first link is an artist named Matei Apostolescu,  a freelance illustrator, who lives in Bucharest, Romania, EU.  Using all kinds of tools ranging from rotring pencils, markers, spray paint to Wacom tablet, Photoshop and Illustrator. Interesting work.






 
My second link looks at the Artist Tang Yau Hoong and thier use of illusion and surrealism.









My third link is a brief reference for a few tips and tricks to remember when setting up a new illustrator document.