Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Redesigns: DNA dog illustration & resume
Resume redesign
First I had to add all the fun stuff we're doing this semester, then I had to cut everything down to one page. Last semester I had tried to create a very 'designer' resume, and it was a good start. I fixed a few problems from the old design, got rid of some boxes and reduced the line stroke of the categories to bring out the white space more on the page. Kate and Victoria were fantastic and suggested I switch to a san-serif font...that was the best advice I got...it completely went with my clean look, and helped a lot of my font issues go away. I also added a drop shadow to my initials, its subtle, but designers notice things like that. It helped bring my name off the page, and that's the whole point of a resume, right?
I have a theme for my resume, that I am continuing on my website. It involves orchids, which I love. The orchid picture on my resume I found last semester, and love the length of the picture. Unfortunately, the picture was too small, and was distorted and pixilated on my resume. It's not too noticeable, but it needs to change. I was unable to fix it in time for the Southern Progress application, but will work on finding a larger, better picture that works with my resume. Just curious, what do you think of the flower, is it too girlie or artsy? Does it take away from the purpose of the resume? Please give me your input.
Here's the resume:
Redesigning DNA
I am also in the process of redesigning my illustration from last semester. I had originally sketched a dog morphing into a DNA strand, and then splitting into two dogs. The sketch looked fantastic, but I am having trouble polishing it up for the story. I'm almost contemplating NOT doing it on illustrator and opting to just draw out the sketch and paint it with watercolors or something. But for the sake of learning how to use Illustrator, I am attempting to play around with it. The first drawing is just using a brush with the pen tool, the second I was playing around with colors. No I don't intend the dogs to be blue and green, any input on how real I should make it? Should it look cartoony or serious? I'll also post the original illustration spread so you can see what I am working with.
Here's the spread:
Here's the pen tool/simplified one:
Here's the color one:
First I had to add all the fun stuff we're doing this semester, then I had to cut everything down to one page. Last semester I had tried to create a very 'designer' resume, and it was a good start. I fixed a few problems from the old design, got rid of some boxes and reduced the line stroke of the categories to bring out the white space more on the page. Kate and Victoria were fantastic and suggested I switch to a san-serif font...that was the best advice I got...it completely went with my clean look, and helped a lot of my font issues go away. I also added a drop shadow to my initials, its subtle, but designers notice things like that. It helped bring my name off the page, and that's the whole point of a resume, right?
I have a theme for my resume, that I am continuing on my website. It involves orchids, which I love. The orchid picture on my resume I found last semester, and love the length of the picture. Unfortunately, the picture was too small, and was distorted and pixilated on my resume. It's not too noticeable, but it needs to change. I was unable to fix it in time for the Southern Progress application, but will work on finding a larger, better picture that works with my resume. Just curious, what do you think of the flower, is it too girlie or artsy? Does it take away from the purpose of the resume? Please give me your input.
Here's the resume:
Redesigning DNA
I am also in the process of redesigning my illustration from last semester. I had originally sketched a dog morphing into a DNA strand, and then splitting into two dogs. The sketch looked fantastic, but I am having trouble polishing it up for the story. I'm almost contemplating NOT doing it on illustrator and opting to just draw out the sketch and paint it with watercolors or something. But for the sake of learning how to use Illustrator, I am attempting to play around with it. The first drawing is just using a brush with the pen tool, the second I was playing around with colors. No I don't intend the dogs to be blue and green, any input on how real I should make it? Should it look cartoony or serious? I'll also post the original illustration spread so you can see what I am working with.
Here's the spread:
Here's the pen tool/simplified one:
Here's the color one:
// posted by teresasanserif @ 3:51 PM 
