Minimalist Scotland

Minimalist Scotland

by @LilahKBB

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October 5, 2017

Can you guess what TV show this is based off of??? It’s one of my favorite books too! I created this image on gimp its not as good as I would have liked but I have a lot of trouble using gimp but I’m slowly learning. I wanted it to be more minimalist and …
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Oh, fuck it.

by @ashedwardz

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October 5, 2017

One of my favorite movies of all time is Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson. The characters M. Gustav H and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy, have a quirky yet endearing relationship in the film. The awkward, crass, and dry humor peaks through especially in their use of language[Read more]
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The Terrific Dazzler?

by @ana_leino

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October 5, 2017

Here is a vague idea of how my character, The Terrific Dazzler would look like. It was rather difficult to come up with a costume design since that’s never really been my forte. I’m a simple girl, I like simple costumes. She works most nights with a black, light-canceling suit. If I could, I would …
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Redesign a Super Hero!

by @Maggieo_13

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October 4, 2017

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Kaleidoscope Prototype

by @ashedwardz

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October 4, 2017

First ever picture of Kaleidoscope! She always rocks her white Go-Go boots, pink dresses, and colorful locks. Depending on her mood, Kaleidoscope changes her hair color. It’s natural color is shown above, including a few different shades of pink. All of her clothes are made with special technology that allow[Read more]
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Cool Letters

by @Hannah Woehrle

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October 4, 2017

In searching for a design assignment that I could incorporate my character into, I came across the “Generate Cool Letters” assignment. You had to write you name creatively, and I debated a little whether to use my character’s real name, or her superhero name. I decided on her real name, because it felt more authentic, …
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Assignment Bank 4 (Week Six):

by @melseykooring

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October 4, 2017

Let’s See Some ID For this assignment, I was tasked with creating some form of ID for a fictional character that seems believable, knowing your character’s environment or circumstances. I decided to use this assignment to focus, again, on Jester. It was a lot of fun creating the ID for him. I ran into a […]
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Assignment Bank 3 (Week Six):

by @melseykooring

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October 4, 2017

If Movie Posters Told The Truth For this assignment, the instructions were to improve movie posters to make them more accurately reflect the content of the film. So to begin my thought process, I thought to myself, “What is one of the most popular films of all time?” Instantaneously, the movie Titanic popped into my […]
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Super Logos

by @courthardy2018

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October 4, 2017

For the Create a Logo assignment, I was to create a logo that was simple yet detailed. To complete this task, I decided to create a logo for my character because every superhero deserves a logo and I have yet to give her one! First, […]
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Assignment Bank 2 (Week Six):

by @melseykooring

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October 4, 2017

Wait, Where’d That Guy Come From? I chose to complete this assignment because it honestly looked like a lot of fun! The assignment instructs you to photoshop someone(s) (or something(s)) into a picture that isn’t supposed to be there. Below you can see my creation, how I created it, and my rationale for its creation: […]
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You Could Cut It Will A Knife……..

by @ldeitrick

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October 4, 2017

The Women comic strip I was a layout editor in high school, so I was excited for the challenge of creating a comic strip from a movie scene. I mean, that’s basically what yearbook editing is, presenting a year’s worth of high school action into a single book of head shots. I chose to work …
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Assignment Bank 1 (Week Six)

by @melseykooring

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October 4, 2017

Valentines Alternative This week I was asked to complete a total of 10 stars worth of design assignments and to center at least two assignments around Jester. Well, that presents no problem to me at all – as I normally focus my assignments around him anyways cause it is so much fun! So when I […]
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Super Tattoo (Week Six):

by @melseykooring

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October 4, 2017

Super Tattoo For this assignment, I was instructed to create a tattoo design that represents your superpower or explains what you would do as a superhero. I obviously took the opportunity to create a tattoo centered around my character – Jester. I decided that creepy smiles is the one characteristic of Jester that he is […]
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Four Icons..One Story

by @PamlanyeJordan

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October 3, 2017

The last and final design assignment I completed this week was worth 3 and 1/2 stars and was called One Story / Four Icons. I love bored games, trivia, and guessing games so this assignment called my name! First I had to decide on a movie that I could boil down to just 4 main images/icons. … Continue reading Four Icons..One Story
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Word Cloud- Little Brain Themed

by @PamlanyeJordan

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October 3, 2017

The next design bank assignment I completed was the Word Cloud assignment, it was worth 4 stars. I decided to make my theme for this word cloud Little Brain. I incorporated some words that describe his powers and life. Brian Smalls Secrets Minds Smart Sidekick Super Thoughts To complete this assignment I used world.net! I … Continue reading Word Cloud- Little Brain Themed
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Design Your Superhero!

by @PamlanyeJordan

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October 3, 2017

The next design assignment bank project I did was worth 4 stars and was the Design Your Superhero assignment! I was so excited to do this because I could make Little Brain my superhero sidekick into a real image! To complete this assignment I used the second superhero generator linked because the first one required … Continue reading Design Your Superhero!
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A Tattoo for Little Rascal

by @Hannah Woehrle

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October 3, 2017

For our superhero-specific design assignment, I decided to go with the “Super Tattoo” assignment. I also figured it would be a good fit to incorporate my superhero character, so rather than design one for myself, I designed it for Little Rascal. Here’s what I wound up with: The design is supposed to be Professor X. …
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Coming Soon

by @ldeitrick

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October 3, 2017

Creating a movie poster based on Khatyrka, I immediately had the idea to show a woman’s shoulder with a tattoo of a quasi-crystal. The first mission was to find a quasi-crystal image I though would work. While googling for images, I came across some hard mental octagonal die, and thought about changing the concept …
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Super Word Cloud

by @courthardy2018

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October 3, 2017

For this assignment, I was to create a word cloud of my own. I decided to relate my word cloud to my character for this class. To create my word cloud, I went to a free word cloud website to start my design. First, I […]
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Morph Shadow’s Super Tattoo

by @courthardy2018

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October 3, 2017

This week, I decided to complete the Super Tattoo assignment as a part of design week. However, instead of creating a tattoo that describes me as it states in the description of the assignment, I created one for my character Morph Shadow. Morph Shadow’s tattoo […]
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From Screen to Page

by @PamlanyeJordan

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October 2, 2017

This was a tough assignment! I went through a lot of trial and error to get to my end result. I first had to go screen shot the scenes from the movie that I wanted to use. I decided to pick a fan favorite with Mean Girls because the drama in that movie lends itself … Continue reading From Screen to Page
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Lava Springs

by @ashedwardz

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October 2, 2017

Lava Springs is the perfect destination for any traveler! Between the adventurous snorkeling trips and relaxing spa heated by the surrounding lava, you will find yourself living your best life. I originally was just going to use the snorkeling picture that I took on my family vacation to Grand Cayman[Read more]
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Spiderman 2.0

by @courthardy2018

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October 2, 2017

This week, I decided to complete the Superhero Makeover Assignment, worth 3 stars. I was asked to give a superhero a makeover by redesigning their costume. Because I created my character for the class a few weeks ago, I decided to kind of take this […]
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Screen to page

by @k8lynclements

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October 1, 2017

From Screen to Page – 4 Stars For this assignment I had to take a movie scene and design it into a comic. I am not a big movie fan and I wanted to stick with the superhero theme. I decided to choose Suicide Squad. Out of the whole movie, this scene from the bar is my favorite. I found the bar scene on Youtube and screen shot the parts that I needed. I then took the screenshots and used Online Photo...
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Super Tattoo

by @k8lynclements

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October 1, 2017

Super Tattoo For this assignment I had to create a tattoo that reflects my superhero. I am not big on tattoos nor do I have one but this assignment seemed like something neat to do. Since my superhero is a super chef I had to incorporate chef stuff into her tattoo. I decided to do that tattoo because I used to have a shirt that was similar with a skull wearing a chef hat and a knife and whisk under...
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Meet Mericful Mise en Place

by @k8lynclements

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October 1, 2017

Design Your Superhero – 4 Stars This design assignment had me create my super hero that I have been referring to throughout the semester. I used the Hero Machine website to make her. This took a lot of time because the website can be sort of tricky but once I got used to the website I started having a lot of fun! So below is Merciful Mise en Place! She is a super chef that follows all culinary safety rules. She...
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Triple Rocktroll Lyrics

by @OliviaBreler

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September 29, 2017

For the Triple Rocktroll Lyrics (2 stars), I choose a picture of Slash because Guns n’ Roses was my favorite band for a long time. I’ve heard people confuse ACDC and Guns n’ Roses before (I don’t know how) so I choose some lyrics to to You shook me all night long by ACDC, and then I attributed …
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Branding

by @OliviaBreler

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September 29, 2017

For the Branding assignment (3,5 stars) I used Design Mantic to design a logo for my superhero, Charlie Sass! I decided to go with the red skull, because Charlie’s a red head aaaand because she kicks ass. I thought the logo turned out awesome!
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Long distance relationship

by @OliviaBreler

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September 29, 2017

I wanted to do the Long distance relationship assignment (2,5 stars), because my fiancé and I did long distance for almost a year combined. There were no instructions for the assignment, but in order to kind of illustrate what our LDR was like, I put together a collage. On a daily basis it was selfies and good …
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Olivia Breler 2017-09-29 16:52:46

by @OliviaBreler

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September 29, 2017

To kick off this design week, I did the Destination postcard assignment (3 stars). I decided to use a picture I took of my hometown a few years ago and added some text. I really didn’t feel like I needed to do much more, the picture is nice and speaks for itself I think. It’s a beautiful …
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