My new BUSY-ness and a French Post Card from the made up planet of Nim

Okay so here is my crazy plan!! Some of you may already know, but I am starting a freelance business. Nothing too big and mostly just what I have time for and for people I know or live by me, but basically I will do anything photographers do and I will sketch or paint instead, so like engagement portraits, weddings, birthday caricatures, pets, friends, holiday stuff, etc you name it I do it. I have configured some pricing options for those who are interested:

$20.00 for a sketchbook size, 8"x11" piece of one person or subject
$40.00 two people/subject
Plus $10.00 per person/subject after that.
Any custom requests or further questions can be emailed to me at smmiller09@hotmail.com.
I can accept cash or check.
I'd say since I am in school and depending on how many people send in requests, expect it take some time. I can let you know how much upon request
I will be posting up more details as I come to build on this and have requests, but in the mean time this will be all.

Thanks to everyone's support :)

So now for my latest catastrophe:

This one's not my favorite illustrator piece ever (it is only my second), but I liked the idea of futuristic gospel enlightenment haha!

It's translates to: The Missionaries from OUTER SPACE

On the back it will have written: 

Salutations de la planète Nim!

Salut Maman! Il y a des missionnaires ici, pouvez-vous croire?! Il m'a fait penser à Nathan au Japon. Quoi qu'il en soit, la nourriture de Nim est bon. Et la vue est exquise, deux lunes dans la nuit! Les habitants ici sont un étrange, mais agréable. Eh bien, je dois tiret. En pensant à toi!

Sarah

 Which translates to: 

Hey! Greetings from Planet Nim!

Hey mom! There are missionaries here, can you believe it?! It made me think of Nathan in Japan. Anyways, the nim food is good. And the view is exquisite, two moons at night! The inhabitants here are a strange, but nice. Well, I gotta dash. Thinking of ya!

Sarah

Totally silly and ridiculous but fun and for credit :)

Adobe Illustrator CS5

             So real quick while I have time. I've been taking this illustrator class and this is a little something I was able to whip up :) as far as coloring goes and making it a vector. 

Vector vs Raster:
Vector- mathematically generated geometric shapes.
Raster- stored as a pixel grid.
Resizing raster images causes pixelation whereas vector images will continue to be crisp images no matter what size you change it to. Photoshop uses raster imaging enabling it to create those realistic images that it does. Illustrator specializes in vector graphics enabling it to create images that can be blown up to banners and still be crisp. So it just depends on the mood you're in. I thought I could try to mesh the two together with this image to get more realistic shading and such, but as it turns out, photoshop could not keep the vector quality to save its life, so I did the best I could in illustrator. It's not perfect but it's a start, and it's not bad for my first piece in illustrator.

View of Pre or.. um.. Preview!

Sooooooo, I have this crazy idea, but I'm not going to get into detail in case it doesn't work out, wouldn't want to get your hopes up, eh? Haha, well, let me get some stuff going first and I'll let you in on my little gig. Here is just a little something that could possibly go towards my plans that I can't tell you about yet.

Kinda goes with the whole new year theme right?

Some sketch's from the semester

I thought I'd just upload some sketches up from the semester that I liked, I'm gonna upload some later after I finish all my exams this week, wish me luck!




*Oh and ps: Are they gonna kiss? No. He's gonna turn from her in a split second after the captured moment. I'm not that sappy come on! ;)

This is a piece I did earlier and I am just now reposting the new and improved version. The old rendition of this piece is seen in the april 21st 2011 post.

Social Violations.

This was fun! My dear friend Taylor had a project for her class. I'm still not sure what the guidelines consisted of exactly but it meant that got to have a hands on experience of having people look at you funny and doing it on purpose. Here are some pictures and videos of what we did:

Texting at the bottom of the escalator and blocking peoples way. This woman didn't say anything but the crease in eyebrows was an indication of how she felt about me sitting there in her way.

This is me messing with Taylor as she was getting distracted>> and texting

someone. :)

This is a guy I sat as close to as I could

comfortably while still feeling uncomfortable. The look he's giving me is after I told him my hair was real. Mid conversation I got up and left to check out these cool sunglasses. He was in the middle of talking about his tatoos.

Me being a statue with the statue kid.

Me chillaxin on a bike.

It was interesting to see peoples reactions. For me personally I was a little more gutsy than I would normally be and some of the reactions surprised me. Sure it might be a little awkward to sit next to a random guy, and I looked crazy, but he and I had a good conversation. You get to know people when you put yourself out there. One of the first things I did once we walked all the way in was shake these older men's hands and ask how they were doing. They asked if I needed anything and I said no, I just wanted to say hi. As I walked off he asked why can't there be more friendly people like you? One particular moment I actually felt bad about.. On the escalator a man with a stroller was coming down baby and all. Taylor moved out of the way. She was nice. As for me, I scooted over an inch, leaving enough room to squeeze by, but he didn't want touch me at all so he ran into the side of the escalator... O.o oops... It would have been worth it had it been caught on video or even a photo of it, but our camera guy was trying to set his stuff up so he didn't quite get it and now I'm just left to feel bad :(

So embarrassing, funny, enlightening, all of the above confirms that no matter how people dress or act they're still people. My perspective has been wonderfully enhanced.

Free Caricatures!

So my sketchbook class today went to the mall and one of my class mates put up a sign that said "Free Caricatures!" I went ahead and jumped in there with him and got some practice in for myself:

This was a great idea on my classmates part and I may have to go back and do it again! :)