WIP - Gingerbread House part 2

This is my update on my Gingerbread House illustration. Next up is color and lines. I'm thinking of making this in three different versions to practise different methods.

My Mail Me Art 2 Submission

Yesterday was all about making the Mail Me Art deadline. I haven't participated before but I really wanted to send something in just to be a part of it. I think it's a great concept and a lot of the artwork is fantastic. It was hard to do in time as I haven't had any time off of work lately, but I did it! The artwork didn't quite turn out as I had planned but I'm quite happy with the whole feel of it. And I've never painted with acrylics before so that was fun. I wanted to make an old fashioned Danish postman and I think he turned out okay. I made him into a jumping jack and he's attatched to the evelope with pins. Fortunately my post office guaranteed me that the date stamp would be from today so I should be able to make the deadline. Yay.

WIP - Rollo Racoon and The Gingerbread House

As you know I'm trying to become better at drawing. So right now I'm trying to draw my character Coonie at a gingerbread house. This is a work in progress and so far I only have a few elements sketched out. I'm not even sure of the layout yet.

Here's my progress of the day:

013 - Mmm...macaroons

I just finished a watercolor I did some weeks ago. I needed to add the lineart in Photoshop. I might work more on this later. Not sure if I'm satisfied with the line work. Suggestions are welcome.

012 - I'm the man!

Okay so I haven't been able to draw every day. I've simply been to busy with work. I didn't draw today either but I recovered an old sketch and decided to finish it up a bit. So here we go, the piece of the day.

011 - Grunge Poulet Poulet

Okay so today I decided to play around in Photoshop and do something different than what I normally do. This is basically just practise as I haven't really had time to fool around with Photoshop for quite a while.

010 - Poulet Poulet

Okay, so I'm a little behind on my daily submissions. I've been caught up in work so haven't been able to find time to draw or anything. But today was Sunday so I decided to give watercolor another go and make the famous Poulet Poulet. I expect to make many many two-headed chickens in the weeks to come as I want it to be my logo. This was just my first try as well as painting practise. The chicken is pure watercolor and lineart was drawn in Photoshop.

009 - Cookie Font

Okay, so I've wanted to do Cookie lettering for quite some time now but I didn't quite know how to go about it. As I want big crisp letters I've used a big stencil. That means I have to use a lot of cookie dough if I want to create the entire alphabet. So before I start making all the letters I want to try different types of dough in order to find the one that looks the best for this typeface. My first one is Double Chocolate Chip and is an all brown dough, and I'm going to focus on the word POULET.

008 - Party Girl

This is some of my actual work. I'm designing some clothes for the VIPs on the online game I work for. I'm going for the whole punk-trashy-life trend and so far the girls seem to love it. Personally I'd love to have hair like this!

007 - My Guilty Pleasure

Okay, so today I decided to get creative with cookies. It totally didn't work so they came out as regular chocolate chip cookies - but oh so yummy! My submission today is a photo of my guilty pleasure.

My portfolio

I'm trying to build my portfolio and need to decide what to include and what to exclude. I'd appreciate all feedback! View it here: http://www.pouletpoulet.com/

006 - Witness

This poor kiwi was witness to the grusome murder of his brother.

005 - An apple a day

I took this picure today on my way to the supermarket. I couldn't resist photographing the cute little lonely apple hanging on the branch all by itself, only accompanied by a single wrinkled leaf.

Last of the pink berries

Okay, I have to share the last berry photograph as well. There's just something magical about pink berries! I can just imagine a little fairy dancing around these and dipping her toes in the glittery droplets.

004 - Brownie the Bear

Today I made a watercolor of a wonderful warm forest friend that I call Brownie the Bear. He's a big old cuddly fella and I hope you'll see more of him later as I'm actually writing a little story about him that I'm also going to illustrate.

003 - Another pink berry

Well, I just love the pink berries so I want to share another shot of them. This is my day 3 submission as well. So far so good. :-)

Snow blossoms

I took this picture outside our building when we were on our way to the airport to go to Prague. I love nature shots, especially if they involve pink berries!

Things I need to do

Before I start working on my Moments of 2009 posts I want to play around with some things first. For one thing it's about time I start organizing my photos and I also need to draw some more. I was just looking at some of my photos now and wow, New York really was an awesome city. I really hope I'll be going back this year!

Custom gelaskins

I'm thinking about making a custom gelaskin for my iPhone and Macbook Air. I think it's pretty awesome that you can make your own and have something completely original with your own design. Maybe I should get one with my Eiffel Tower design, or maybe something completely different.

002 - Eat me...gently...

Drawing Holly

This is a quick sketch I did of Holly, the writer of the wonderful and addictive Decor8blog. I read it every day and it has greatly influenced my view on decorating and loving your home. Holly is very pretty and she recently posted a wonderful wintery photo of herself that I had to draw. This might not be the only time I try it though, as I'd love to draw it in another style as well.

001 - Catman

So, I'm going to jump on board with the whole "create something every day" trend. A lot of people are doing it to stay creative and to help them think out of the box. It isn't so much about the quality of the work but more about being active. Here's my first submission:

Catman - pencil drawing

The Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark 2006

Since I was 15 I've only wanted to go to one school and that is The Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark. Back when I was in the eighth grade I got an internship at Disney's Danish department. My advisor told me that the best education I could possibly get in Denmark if I wanted to be a designer or be in advertising, was at that school. So for years I kept the school's name on a note in my drawer, waiting to be old enough to apply. In 2006 it was finally time and I was scared to death. Only 30 people get in every year so my chances were slim. There was an extensive admission test where you had to create a poster, do an ad campaign and show your versatility by designing numerous illustrations based on an apple. I was sure I wouldn't get in and I was a wreck all three days the test lasted. I'd have to wait for months to get the result so when I finally got my admissions letter I was extatic. I got in! I couldn't believe it! And to this day I'm still so thankful for pulling through. My boyfriend was also very supportive and helpful.

We had to make everything out of paper and computers weren't allowed which made it that much more difficult. Here's the work I did for the admission test:

Finishing Multimedia Design school 2006

I had been a student for two years now at the Multimedia Design school in Copenhagen and was finally finishing. I had learned a lot about media design and had decided that I wanted to fullfill my dream of becoming a graphic designer and illustrator. Throughout my time at the school I worked with all kinds of projects and programs and got a better understanding of how everything worked. My work was very crude but it's fun to look back on.

                                My first attempt at webdesign.

                                A later attemt at webdesign.

Our second year we got an assigment to design an online game for girls. This was the first time I tried vector graphics, photo realism, illustration and character design. I loved it! And I seemed to be fairly good at it as well. Our game was voted the best game of our class which was very cool. Afterwards our project advisor hired me to work on a real online game for girls called Powerbabe and I ended up working there for four years and eventually becoming the editior as well as designer. Here's some examples of my work for the first game prototype.

                             Vector changing room made in Flash

As our final project on our second year we decided to continue working on the game concept though we had to start over. It was a lot of fun and we got the equivalent of an A so we vere very happy with it.

Here's an example of my very first portfolio site: