I decided to make an infographic about the process of drawing & making music, and how they can overlap.. It’s weird because when I draw, I tend to look at a list of principles that I thought were completely different from when I make music.. but looking at it carefully: they have more in common than you’d think!

This is just a general idea.. of course there are different styles that would use different principles.

On the side note:
Interestingly.. I’ve never really seen beats as holding music together until after I started incorporating it into my music. So I guess the opposite applies, to create airy sounding music: remove beats or use different samples that allow the music to float!

Back to exploring Toronto again.. there are so many things I haven’t noticed during the summer roaming: new places to explore in familiar areas.

East side of Yonge street.. near Yonge & Wellsley

Grass Roots on Bloor

Eliot’s Bookstore on Yonge

Hot Pot on Dundas

I was contacted by the U of T Student Union for a poster design commission. It’s for Angela Davis’s lecture, which is coming up in February

I might go through quite a few drafts before reading the final product:

Poster Design “Skeleton” (first draft)


Incorporating a mix media rendered portrait of Angela Davis:

And that’s about it so far..

I’m starting a new project: Visual Pile (there’s only an uncoded mock-up of the site at the moment). It will essentially revolve about visual communication.. in an interesting way - I have yet to plan it all out.

So, it’s the end of the semester and I can’t believe I survived illustrative drawing. It was one of those classes that basically tore my self esteem into pieces. A huge chunk of the classmates were highly skilled in realism… whereas I was that student that couldn’t really draw. I remember going to the first few classes with Marta and we basically left EVERY class feeling like crap (for lack of a better word), doubting ourselves and our skills. Now that it’s over, I feel that we’ve all really improved with our drawing skills and most importantly: leaving with a clearer direction into knowing what needs to be improved Next step: illustrative drawing & painting.. never really painted full pieces before.. this will be the hardest challenge yet.

Random
I’m trying to practice french pronunciations daily using a website that provides audio files of common words! Check it out here

I just made a draft/rough version of how the infograph would be animated: it’s a bit too basic and indeed tedious without proper motion graphic techniques.

…and another video:

I had another CD cover design project for illustration 1… so basically did The Film School’s album Hideout. We’re suppose to have the design style correlate with the music genre.

I bought fake trees, enlarged one of my polaroid photos and printed it out (for the background) and drew the other elements.

On a random note:
One summer day, I finished doing laundry and noticed these three t-shirts laying side-by-side/on top of each other and thought to myself, “hmm… this makes a pretty nice color scheme! :)”

Ah and lastly, attached on a box of cookies that my parents brought over today:

Walker’s Guide to Toronto
I designed another infograph that could be useful to those who use walking as their main mode of transportation

This visual graphic helps people approximate the distance and time it takes to walk from 1 major intersection to the next.

Note: the information was based on google map