New Blog!

Phew! These last few weeks have been a whirlwind. But if you want to hear about it, you’ll have to hop on over to my new blog, gaberina.com. Enjoy!

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After a nice break of doing absolutely nothing for a week (the complete opposite of portfolio show week), I’m back to reality. Well, the summer version of reality. And to celebrate, here are today’s colors pulled from the first strawberry I found in my garden.

Portfolio

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Resume

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The Shoes Are Done!

The shoes are officially done, and they went to their new owner the other day. She was pretty excited.

A bit about my process:

I started out with lots of sketching…and watching the movie over and over again. Any project that involves watching movies for research is a good one. Once I felt comfortable drawing all the characters, I moved from paper to the shoes, and penciled in everything. Next came the color. After testing out loads of color combinations, I narrowed it down to what you see here. Then came inking and touch-ups.

Sadly, the markers I used aren’t waterproof. Not a good thing here in Oregon. To seal it all I used Omnigel, which you can get at pretty much any craft store. Hopefully that’ll hold up.

I’ve gotta say, this was one of my favorite projects I’ve done in a while. In fact, I liked it so much that I went and got my own plain shoes to customize for myself.

Portfolio: Poster

This project is two-fold. It is a logo redesign, and a poster done in the style of De Stijl (a Dutch movement from the early 20th century).

Portfolio: Book Cover

Portfolio: Zappos Shoe Catalog

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