Food for Thought

I've been craving fast food all week (I know, bad Erika!) and I might cave in and buy some tomorrow for lunch because I'll be walking all over campus to test out a scavenger hunt I'll working on (my job is pretty fantastic). So in honor of my cravings, here are some drawings I did of food. It was an assignment for Illustration I or II, I can't remember. But they were fun.

 

Tomorrow I will probably eat something chicken-related, but burgers are good too.

 I will definitely get fries with that chicken thing I plan on eating.

This taco looks tastier than the ones I had the other night. Hard shell tacos have more aesthetic appeal than soft tacos.

 CAKE!!! This will not be part of my lunch tomorrow.

And for you lovers of veggies, here's some cauliflower. I don't eat it because it sort of looks like brains. And because I am a picky eater.

So there are some pictures of food. Next time I'll post some sketches of a current project. Except I haven't started that yet. I'll work on it.

Materials used: Micron pens (I REALLY liked those pens in college)

MAPS Logo Design

At the beginning of August I began my new AmeriCorps position at Portland State University. My official title is Retention Project Program Assistant (fancy, I know) and it comes with perks. Like my own office. There's also this amazing copier that can scan in documents and send them as e-mail attachments, which blew my mind. It's also how I got all of the images for this post onto my computer.

Anyway, the program I'm working with was initiated  last year and is in a bit of a transition period this year. Someone made a logo for the program last year, which looked like this:

I didn't hate it, but I thought it looked a bit amateur, especially for a university program that does important, good work. I kept the basic idea of the compass and found some reference material:

I drew one thumbnail and went with it. I know that's frowned upon with logo design, but since I was tweaking a design and not inventing it, I thought that was enough brainstorming. So here's how it turned out:

I like how it turned out. Plus now I feel like I've done something productive (I've done a lot of reading at work but not much else). It's always fun when I can use my art skills for good.

Quick note: there is a rose in the center of the compass because one of Portland's nicknames is "Rose City". Knowledge is power!

Materials used: Micron pens, Photoshop/Illustrator