Whew

Well, the semester is almost done. Wow. What a whirlwind of exhaustion as usual. Haha. Hard to think that it's going to be like this for the rest of my life? Ehhh....

BRING IT.

But besides that, I suppose I should start posting my work from the past couple of months a bit at a time.

Soooo, I had to create a beer label illustration for the assignment and I decided to do one aimed towards women and not the usual male target. Thus, I drew up thumbnails of mythical women representing strength by their own actions and personalities. I thought this was a fairly good example to put on a beer label aimed towards the female gender.

The two women I chose in the end was Maid Marian and Morgan le Fay (or Morrigan in this case--whoops). Maid Marian (who is most known for being a love interest of Robin Hood) was noted in some legends to disguising herself as a man and even besting Robin Hood in archery. Morrigan, or Morgan le Fay of the Arthurian legends, was so knowledgable in the healing arts that she was seen often as a sorceress:

Then came the color compositions, which was a bit difficult. I had originally planned Maid Marian to be a warm color set, while Morrigan was to be a cooler set. Surprise, surprise, color didn't really care about what I wanted and decided to go purple instead. Ah, well. At least I got the more sinister feeling right for Morrigan:

And then the final set:

It was a pretty fun assignment overall. I got to do research on how beer labels were created (since I had virtually no idea how they were done) and got to go a little crazy on my favorite things--hair, decorative designs, texture...  I just wish I got to create an actual full-out label that you could print out and put on a beer bottle, buuuut...time constraints. Always the bane of my life.

Of course, I apologize to all those graphic designers out there who are prolly wincing at my terrible pasting of the text on the header. It does look a bit awkward, doesn't it?