Hailey’s Highlights: February Sketches

Started off February doing some figure studies from images on Pinterest, doing two to three per day on my lunch break. Focused on taking my time and getting the pose down. Still trying to learn how to exaggerate the pose to make it more dynamic. I chose poses that I thought were interesting. Some I…

Hailey’s Highlights: January Sketches

Ever since October, I had been feeling sad and fatigued, so I took a hiatus from anything creative and put my focus on the holidays. I’ve been in funks before, but they seem to stick around longer than welcome these days, becoming increasingly difficult to get rid of the longer I’m in it. Christmas came…

Ready. Set. Project! Mock Store

Similar to the style guide, I gathered ideas on how I wanted my online shop to look and feel. I looked to some of my favorite artists for inspiration in how they set up their online shops. I mainly needed to get an idea of how an online shop should look and how things were…

Ready. Set. Project! Style Guide

What is Ready. Set. Project! CLICK HERE How I refreshed my logo: CLICK HERE Once I had my logo, creating the style guide became a breeze. It became the base that my brand could build off of. I initially played around with different color schemes, trying to come up with a new palette for my…

Ready. Set. Project! Logo Refresh

I still have a long way to go, but I've made some great progress on my mock campaign. I've designed a new logo, created a style guide and set up a mock online store design. I plan to go into the later two in upcoming posts, so for now this post will be all about…

Hailey’s Highlights: Figures

https://youtube.com/shorts/twBHukVRGfI?feature=share Collecting figures has become a little bit of a hobby for me over the past couple of years. I loved making this video to show them off and explain why I like them so much, especially from a creative POV. Toothless was my very first one, which I got at a Toys R Us…

Hailey’s Highlights: Sketchbook Look

https://youtube.com/shorts/o8g4fNbDPaI?feature=share Been having some fun sketching recently, making cute little characters and practicing a more illustrative style. I've also been working on refreshing my logo. I'd love to create a little character as my logo, but I think for now I will stick with just my letters, though they are fun to draw.

Achievement Unlocked: My First Logo Design

Part 3: The Final Logo Continued from Part 2 It turned out behind the scenes my coworker had been struggling with the name and logo design. It wasn't until now that him and his co-host had sat down together and ironed out all the details. He apologized for the change in direction and said that…

Achievement Unlocked: My First Logo Design

Part 2: Back to the Drawing Board Continued from Part 1 I got to work on the second round of sketches, and played with color and fonts in InDesign. The Chosen Favorite: Column 2, Image 3 IMAGE 1: & 2 Played around with 70's color schemes and different fonts, trying to find a balance between…

Achievement Unlocked: My First Logo Design

Part 1: Roughing It I've never made a logo before...at least...not for other people. Recently though, I had a fun opportunity to do just that. My coworker is dipping his foot into the world of podcasting, and asked if I could create one with my unique art style. He needed a logo to brand his…