So I'm trying to keep some form of consistency between this blog and my DA account... These are just two pieces I have on there and forgot to put up here.

This is just something I did in Photoshop for a class... lots of layers and other pics masked and laid on top of a photo...

This is something I drew and hastily colored in Photoshop a looooong time ago... it's not very good but I still kind of like it...

Hopefully I'll be getting some new stuff up here soon. Yay!

Some old stuff

So here's a bunch of older files from some of my Photoshop and Illustrator classes. All digital, all photos used were taken by me.

This was done in Photoshop, just a bunch of layers put on a picture I drew for an exercise...

Again, Photoshop and filters on a pic I drew. This one turned into a project later on.

This was a final for my beginning Photoshop class. We had to create an Earth Day poster, and this is what I came up with.

This was something I did for InDesign, we had to create a candy wrapper. (I made this brand/candy up) Everything was designed in Illustrator and laid out in InDesign. We got to print it out and fold it like an actual bar. Sadly I don't have a picture of it.

Still getting used to the whole "blog" thing. I want to customize the page a little bit... we'll see how that happens and how much help I'll need. :D

This one I started when I got my tablet in December. Finally finished it. Used Corel Painter Essentials 3. I'm still getting used to the program (I'm used to Photoshop and Illustrator) It was inspired by stories of the early Christian martyrs and their graphic deaths... I can't remember if I was basing this off of one in particular or not....

I also went and got a deviantART account! Woot! My username is latenightcathie. The real trick is going to be keeping this and the DA updated :D Enjoy!

So I've finally gotten my art blog up and running! Go me! I'll try to keep this related to art only, though I might share a few stories as well about my artwork... Bear with me for the first few entries, I'm getting used to this whole "blog" thing. I'll try to keep updated regularly, the first few posts might be some older stuff... I'll get the about me sections and all that ready too.

I guess the first post warrants a bit of an introduction. My name is Cathie Norris, I am a student going into the Graphic Design and Illustration line of work. I'll graduate over the summer with an Associates in Graphic Communications and Publishing (basically Graphic Design with an emphasis in print) and then next year I'll be swept off to Florence, Italy to attend the one year Graphic Design program at the Florence Design Academy. While I really like design, I do a lot of life drawings, hence the interest in illustration. I didn't always know I wanted to be an artist but I've been drawing since I was a child, mainly getting into trouble for filling my school notebooks with doodles. :) I've actually only recently began doing design on the computer, everything else has been pencils, inks, charcoals and paper. I own about 16 or so sketchbooks, 12 of which have been filled, the others are in the process of being filled.

So I guess the first thing I'm going to put up is probably one of my favorite pieces. For an Illustrator class, we had the opportunity to create a skateboard deck design and actually mount it on a skateboard. This is what I came up with. To this day however, I have no idea what he's holding in his hand, I've forgotten what it was supposed to be. I also have the greyscale for the little dude. I'll get more up here soon, a lot of it still has to be scanned into the computer. (I'm so behind the times sometimes :D )

Next up are just a couple of sketches I have hanging around... done in pen. The black and white one is actually a sketch of Connor, Murphy, and Rocco from the Boondock Saints movie (highly recommended movie) the blue one is just something I doodled in class waiting for a teacher to show up. Scribbling out little doodles like this is probably the best way to relieve stress. :) Enjoy.