Excellent writeup on a pretty logo by Veerle. I’m also enjoying the comment section. Think I’m learning more there than some of the books I have.

I miss doing Illustration Friday but time was so crunched at school.

Project

Make a rebus.

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Can you guess what it says?

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Survey results from the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles (HERI/UCLA) show that the popularity of computer science (CS) as a major among incoming freshmen has dropped 60 percent from the fall of 2000 and 2004. The popularity of CS as a major among female undergraduates dropped 80 percent in the last seven years, and 93 percent since its all-time high in 1982.

Whatever we’re taking, we’re taking longer to graduate.

Postsecret is an ongoing community art project. People from around the world share their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

Kind of ironic that a lot of the people that do Illustration Friday are illustrators for children’s books.

Project
Do a two-page spread of a children’s book. 6″ height x 16″ width, use guides. The text will be a story of the student’s own or a nursery rhyme. The art will be any and all of the following: scratchboard effect, scribble effect, compound, text wrap, brushes, perspective (free transform tool).

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