tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37686442186497410042024-03-19T15:39:04.145-07:00Kevin's Illustration BlogKevin's Illustration BlogKevin Valentehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738496855235310192noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768644218649741004.post-28642294680722070782012-10-03T20:25:00.000-07:002012-10-03T20:28:02.401-07:00Travel Log Sketchbook<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's sketchbook theme was Travel Log, so I decided to whip out the acrylic paint and paint pens to make this intense red neighborhood (well in real life it's a lot less intense). Anyways, I keep having this reoccurring dream of visiting places I've never been that are intensely vibrant in color. I'm always looking for someone to tell me where I am, but every time I find someone I wake up. Not sure if that's good or bad. Anyways, here's a little homage to that. Also, I like drawing buildings. Hope you enjoy. :)Kevin Valentehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738496855235310192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768644218649741004.post-904750872986161812012-10-03T19:29:00.001-07:002012-10-03T20:27:47.888-07:00Hello Pattern Design<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Beginning of some pattern work for a Screenprinted and Letterpressed stationary box set. </div>
<br />Kevin Valentehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738496855235310192noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768644218649741004.post-71065150269185418492012-10-02T10:57:00.005-07:002012-10-04T12:38:16.923-07:00Ma Petite Shoe Event Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This past weekend, I was asked to do a Poster Design and Illustration for a joint event between <a href="http://www.mapetiteshoe.com/">Ma Petite Shoe</a> and MICA. The event is an "OctoberFest" Party that is happening as part of First Friday where there will be shoes and chocolate for sale. It was really fun to do this poster, and be able to do whatever. Soon to follow, will be the painted shoes that I have also been asked to do. Let me know what you think.</div>
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And here's a look at the poster on Display.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">As well, as the illustrated sneaker for Ma Petite Shoe's <a href="http://shoes-and-chocolate.blogspot.com/2012/10/unstitched-utilities-giveaway.html" target="_blank">website</a>.</span></div>
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Two out of the five first comps for an assignment for Making Good Ideas. The theme is using flowers to express a genre of poetry. The top flower is a white blooming cactus and the bottom one is a lantana flower, which surprisingly blooms and can survive in salt water.</div>
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Here are some photos of the things we played around with and made in our past two workshops. </div>
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This week, I had the fun opportunity to work on the Atlas themed sketchbook. It was fun to have the chance to make a pattern, play with layering of mylar, as well stenciling and paper cutouts. The theme for the spreads are a mixture of female sexuality and the projections are minds make upon constellations and stars in the night sky. </div>
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This week, it was my turn to do a spread for the "Creatures"sketchbook. So I just drew weird monsters from my imagination meeting together in the woods. Let me know if you dig it.<br />
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Another spread for our continuing Sketchbook Assignment. This week my sketchbook theme was Strangers. I chose to hand letter a quote by Shirley MacLaine, and then use deer to illustration how awkward it is when 1) you get hit on at a bar by creeps and 2) how weird the interaction usually is. Let me know what you think. :) </div>
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As part of the MFA Illustration course load, we are doing the <a href="http://www.arthousecoop.com/sketchbookproject/">Sketch Book Project</a>. We were each given a theme and had the chance to illustrate two-three pages before we switch them out. My theme for the semester is Chronicle. So besides chronicling cats destroying my plants and the start of grad School, I also paid a little homage to Neil Armstrong, who died on the 25th, and the birth of that meatball from Snooki's womb. For this coming week, I have the theme Stranger. Will upload sketches soon. :)Kevin Valentehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738496855235310192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768644218649741004.post-45384217046847155112012-09-04T19:54:00.000-07:002012-10-03T19:35:10.035-07:00Printer Tech At Dolphin <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just started my job as a Printer Tech for the Dolphin Print lab. Will be working Tuesdays and Thursdays. These are just a few quick and dirty posters I made for the hours and for the Department Meeting. :) </div>
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Here is a screenshot of the Illustrations that I am making into polymer plates for a Letterpress Workshop at the Baltimore Print Studios. So excited to make some cards, tags and business cards for upcoming events! Will upload photos of the prints once we make them.Kevin Valentehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738496855235310192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768644218649741004.post-25248465553463109852012-05-10T07:35:00.001-07:002012-09-06T11:16:33.540-07:00Senior Show Is Up!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finally just finished hanging my senior show! Come and check it out on the Third floor of Fox in the Julian Allan Illustration Gallery. There are free take way postcards and business cards. Enjoy.Kevin Valentehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738496855235310192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768644218649741004.post-17055502146598946512012-05-03T10:56:00.000-07:002012-09-06T10:58:03.642-07:00Final Version of Pizza is Luv<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is the final version of "Pizza is Luv" with the Illustrated Type. A bigger version is found on my website. Hope you enjoy. :)</div>
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This is an in progress piece based off a Kreayshawn tweet: pizza is luv. The hand lettering is on the way. Playing around with merging the style of my screenprints with my illustrations. Let me know what you think. <div>
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This past weekend, I modeled for my friends Kate and Anna for their line "Stunted" as a part of MICA's Experimental Fashion Show: Milquetoast. Here is the link to their line. So much fun and the clothing was so cool. :)<br />
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So, Zygna (the Farmville company) apparently is throwing a party for the Senior Illustration Majors. We all had to do a small illustration, so here is mine. It's a pencil drawing that I digitally colored. The lettering behind me reads: Short Man, Short Shorts, Big Hair.<br />
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Enjoy. Haha.Kevin Valentehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738496855235310192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768644218649741004.post-68558685951254101572012-04-16T12:28:00.000-07:002012-04-23T19:03:27.498-07:00MADE A WEBSITE!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I finally made an actual website. I feel like a real adult. Feel free to go check it out. :)<br />
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Let me know if you like it!Kevin Valentehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738496855235310192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768644218649741004.post-70062510539686339682012-02-01T15:03:00.000-08:002012-02-28T15:06:21.244-08:00Dogs are Kids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Dogs Are Kids." 2012 Gouache and Digital.<br />
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One of my new pieces for thesis / also teaching myself how to digitally color (gouache and pencil on top of digital print out). Inspiration came from a tweet commenting the trend of how dogs are now like kids, or in this case visa versa.<br />
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Human Centipede Party, 2011, 8 Colors, Half Sheet<br />
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Last two prints for Quentin's class. They are a continuation of my series <i>It's Fun To Do Bad Things.</i> </div>
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The book is finally finished (and photographed!). Each page is an illustrated interpetation of an absurd tweet from the public domain. The books are accordion style, and screenprinted by hand as part of my thesis. Enjoy. </div>
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Caged away, deep inside of us lives a beast – a desire to be bad. Shackled by society’s systems of checks and balances, we are for the most part kept in order, conditioned to live pleasant lives. Yet, each and every one of us has – at one point or another – has relished in the pleasure of breaking the rules. Our parents tell us not to do things; we do them anyways. Our bosses delegate commands; we ignore them. The government creates laws to govern us; we break them all the time. It is part of our instincts, our human nature, to go against the grain, to be defiant. As insanely passionate and selfish creatures, we constantly push the boundaries of what is acceptable, yearning for that thrill like a sick addiction. We cannot help ourselves, we love to be devious, to skirt laws, and hurt those who have wronged us. This guilty desire to be bad is the inspiration for “It’s Fun to Do Bad Things.”</div>
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The series of illustrations and prints focuses on four little girls – a deviant, Goth child and her three friends – who find merriment in bad and inappropriate activities. Through the use of young children, the series mocks the current trend in young adults who are consumed with “edginess” associated with satanic symbolism, cult logic and occultism. Each illustration and print is my own interpretation of an absurd tweet from different, publicly available Twitter accounts. The fantastical nature of the illustrations is a satirical critique of how fanatical our society is about publicizing each and every moment of daily life, whether it needs to enter the public domain or not. Although this series is a tongue-in-cheek critique intended to be a comedic reading of our lack of filters; it is also pokes fun at<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> the idealized notion of childhood innocence, and through the juxtaposition of the little girls and their evil acts, our absurd desire to be bad.</span></div>
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<br />Kevin Valentehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738496855235310192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768644218649741004.post-25904881147743470892011-12-17T19:43:00.000-08:002012-01-03T19:43:20.174-08:00Final Book Cover Design<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
For Lettering and Type, our final project was to create two book covers that tied a common theme together. I selected the novels <i>Brave New World</i> and <i>To Kill A Mockingbird, </i>developed a concept in of list making for each cover design. </div>
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Art Market is here at last!!!! Come and check out the "It's Fun To Do Bad Things" Merchandise! My little <i>It's Fun To Do Bad Things</i> Book is finally finished! It's a limited edition run, all hand-screened printed with love. I have also printed some journals and notebooks, small two-color prints and patches (which have been heat set). I will be selling select prints as well. So stop by! :)Kevin Valentehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738496855235310192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768644218649741004.post-89622866520803954342011-12-01T19:50:00.000-08:002012-01-03T19:52:11.168-08:00FOLIO!!!!!!!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is my Folio for Quentin's Class. More to come shortly.</div>
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<br />Kevin Valentehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738496855235310192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768644218649741004.post-11935849061687580782011-12-01T15:14:00.000-08:002012-01-03T19:38:07.615-08:00Jazz Posters / Modular Font<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For this project in my Lettering and Type Class, we were required to create an alphabet from modules that we first drew out by hand and then scanned. We then had to use the alphabet and modules to create two posters for famous Jazz Musicians that at once are different and compliment each other. I chose Nat King Cole and Billy Holiday. </div>
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