fairy tale illustrations 2

Here are the rest of the illustrations for the project with Mina.

Red Riding Hood, calling the cops on the wolf whilest holding him at gunpoint.

Close up of Red. That phone cord was a piece of work, but again, fun to create. :)

The third and final illustration is of Snow White making a citizen's arrest, with the poison apple in an evidence bag.

Close up of Snow White and the mean-muggin' Witch.

fairy tale illustrations

I was fortunate enough to be able to work on some illustrations for an art director student a few weeks ago (Go check out Mina's work!). The idea for these illustrations is: "Don't be the damsel in distress." The campaign endorses female police officers. Mina told me about the concept and I was very excited to work on the project, especially since it meant empowering female characters from well known fairy tales and adding some subversion.

This is the first illustration: Cinderella interrogating her evil stepsisters.

The stepsisters were my favorite part to create in this piece. Rendering their pearls was fun.

Closer view of the sisters.

More of the illustrations to come! :)

douche bag illustration

Yes, that's a lady vacuuming up a man. More specifically, it's a 1950's-ish housewife vacuuming up a douche bag. A marker illustration, with some Photoshop editing, created for a friend's school project. She wrote the copy. :) I regret that the DB is not more orange-looking. Ah well. I used to draw and color a lot with markers in high school. I forgot how much they bleed, and how that can be both good and bad.

sofia riesling ads

I made these ads for my digital production class. The assignment was to create a campaign for an alcoholic beverage. I'm not an alcohol connoisseur so I took the dorky route and went to the liquor store with a pen and paper, looking for interesting-shaped/colored/labeled bottles. (I'm visual, what can I say? ) I'm sure the clerk thought I was some hopeful underage kid. While browsing, I found this beautiful Sofia Coppola Riesling bottle:

And it has such a fun label:

I loved Marie Antoinette (which Sofia Coppola directed) so I decided to take the angle of indulgence for the campaign. I paired up with my copywriter friend, Cecely, and we went to town.

The print ad. The macaroons are from Sweets Bake Shop. And they were delicious.

The print spread ad. The fun princess plate is from West Elm. I was probably the only one there buying a single plate...

The billboard ad.

I had a lot of fun styling the photo shoot. Some of the jewelry is mine, but some of it was purchased just for the shoot. Did you know that certain tween jewelry/accessory stores in mainstream malls do not let you return rhinestone jewelry? Probably because it was prom season...but c'mon. Needless to say, my nieces got some glittery presents from auntie.

drawings

I haven't posted legit drawings in a long time. Which is silly because I bought the domain "kristendraws.com." Guess photos are just easier.

Here's a couple drawings made for spread ads. If you look closely - the figures are made up of words. They worked for the class assignment, but they don't quite work for stand alone ads. Ah well. It was nice to do some non-computer hands-on drawing again.

the activities in between

Welp, three weeks went by fast. Back to school today. What did I do over break?

Read The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. Great read!

 Doodled & concepted some possible personal logos.

 Watched movies and then more movies.

 Painted my nails with this tutorial from the Dainty Squid.

Rearranged my living room furniture. My apartment has a better flow now.

Added some wall decor to my flesh-colored bathroom.

And lastly, I bugged this guy every single day.

Downton Abbey ads

I was fortunate enough to sneak Downton Abbey into some ads I made this quarter at school for Montblanc Pens. LOVE that show! Found the photographs online, and the copy inside the fancy boxes is from a Victorian etiquette book.

Click for a larger view.  You  can see more work on my Cargo site [ here ].