Category: Surface Design
Topic: Basics
Start Date: 5/5/12
Deadline: 5/9/12
I tend to create lots of pretty detailed patterns, but this time I want to create more basic pieces.
Hello! I'm Melanie, a freelance illustrator living in Denver with my dog, Violet, who often has things named after her without realizing it.
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deadline #37 - portrait - Elvis
Category: Portrait
Topic: Elvis Presley
Start Date: 5/14/12
Deadline: 5/18/12
I’m all shook up.
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deadline #36 - editorial - maurice sendak
Category: Editorial
Topic: Maurice Sendak and childhood - we ate it up, and we loved it
Start Date: 5/9/12
Deadline: 5/13/12
A quote from Maurice Sendak, as seen in many news articles and facebook feeds since Sendak passed away yesterday:
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
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deadline #35 - surface design - basics
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deadline #34 - book cover - outliers
Category: Book Cover
Topic: Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
Start Date: 5/1/12
Deadline: 5/5/12
Malcolm Gladwell is amazing…his stuff is so easy to read, and so interesting and thought-provoking, and also makes you think, well sure! That seemed obvious! Why didn’t I realize that? I am pretty psyched for this cover.
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deadline #33 - portrait - Tina Fey
Category: Portrait
Topic: Tina Fey
Start Date: 4/28/12
Deadline: 5/2/12
I sure have been doing lots of portraits of comedians lately.
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deadline #32 - editorial - robo-readers grading essays
Category: Editorial
Topic: Education - Robo-Readers Used to Grade Test Essays
Start Date: 4/24/12
Deadline: 4/28/12
This is just an all-around great article, fyi.
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deadline #31 - surface design - more watercolors
Category: Surface Design
Topic: Watercolors (again)
Start Date: 4/21/12
Deadline: 4/24/12
This is my second attempt to do a watercolor/ink themed surface design for the Project8 contest. You can see some of my previous designs here and here. The deadline for the contest is the 24th so it is officially GO TIME.
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deadline #30 - book cover - sabriel
Category: Book Cover
Topic: Sabriel
Start Date: 4/16/12
Deadline: 4/20/12
Whoops! I miscounted a deadline somewhere. This is #30, not #29. Whoo! 30!!!
It’s gonna be hard to look past this super super great interpretation, by Kali Ciesemier. I’m gonna try, though
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deadline #29 - portrait - Kyle Chandler
Category: Portrait
Topic: Kyle Chandler
Start Date: 4/12/12
Deadline: 4/16/12
Fun fact: Kyle Chandler and Ron Livingstone are actually the same person.
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deadline #28 - editorial - suspending a campaign
Category: Editorial
Topic: With Santorum out, what ‘suspending’ a campaign means
Start Date: 4/10/12
Deadline: 4/14/12
From msnbc, the big campaign news of the day.
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