First ever packaging attempt

For my packaging class, we are assigned week-long challenges where we are given the assignment and have to present a final product to our instructor and other 'judges' the following week. Our first challenge was to redesign a pet food package for either dog, cat or bird food. It is the first time I have ever tried to do packaging before and it was really an interesting experience, but definitely a lot of fun.

 I redesigned Nutro Max Cat catfood.

Class trip to Madison

For my most recent Illustration class, we went to Madison, GA to see the town and visit our instructor's home and studio. The town was absolutely beautiful and so was Lindy's (my instructor) home so I thought I'd post some of the pictures I took:

The view from Lindy's house of her front yard

the skeleton in Lindy's studio

standing around eating popsicles after critiquing our first assignments

her house is so amazing!

class critique

the front of Lindy's home

Where we all ate lunch in downtown Madison

for part of class, we had to go around the town and make stops for a semi-scavenger hunt. This is the town's cemetery

we also had to pick a front porch we liked and do a sketch of it. This is the house I chose

This is the guy who lives in the house I drew. I went to ask him permission to draw his home and wound up talking to him for 20 minutes

another beautiful Madison home

Diana drawing her chosen home!

Intro to Illustration

For our first illustration class, our instructor Lindy had us create a group composition using several different materials, as well as each other. These pictures show the results that involved several class members becoming part of the art. haha  This class should be interesting

My parents' new favorite pass-time

Over the break my parents bought a brand new apple iMac computer for the office at home. Their new favorite thing has become chatting with me through video ichat. I've taken the liberty of taking some screen shots to document these hilarious interactions. 

Notice how Ollie likes to sit in during ichat sessions. Hilarious

3rd Quarter begins

Well, It's been quite a while since I've posted anything. One reason is because of this addition in my life:

I got an iphone over the break, and it allows me to check a lot of things online which somewhat keeps me from turning on my computer as often and updating on here

Mostly my lack of blogging is a direct result from my overwhelming schedule this quarter. I'm already completely exhausted and all of my time is dedicated to schoolwork in order to stay on top of things! 

Luckily, all of my classes have really great instructors and cover topics I really love, so at least all of the work is enjoyable. Only thing is there are only so many hours in a day and I'm having trouble finding time to do anything else!

This quarter I am taking Intro to Illustration, Logos, Packaging and Publications.  Each one is really challenging but I think I will learn a ton these 11 weeks. I am definitely earning the break this time. Second quarter was a breeze compared to this! I'm only halfway through week 3 and I'm already over my head with things to work on!

The rest of my break was pretty relaxing so it's nice to be doing things again. I already can't believe it's already 3rd quarter. It's an all out marathon until critique