word list.

So hopefully I'll be able to put something more exciting up here.  I made a word list a while back when I was at the humane society, and I have a lot so I figured I would share! A lot of these words are going to be in my book too.

fur

smelly

purring

barking

sneezing

hair

shedding

tickling

tails

claws

scratching

hairballs

soft

sniffing

meowing

water

fluffy

rattling

squeaking

peeking

looking

spots

patches

stretching

sleeping

biting

playing

paws

so there ya have it!

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book book book

So I'm actually getting pretty excited for this book.  It's been pretty fun so far and I think it's only gonna get better!
The idea for my book is to have a round book (with about five or six pages?) with a cat coming out of each page.  I also want the case for the book to be a cage that looks like the cages that the cats are in (look at picture below!) so that you're literally taking the cats out of a cage to begin with!

I think I want to create it in the order of a story line, starting with choosing a cat from a cage and ending with putting it back.  I really want to put fake cat fur on the pictures of the cats, since obviously petting them is the main part of the experience.  (anyone know where to get fake cat fur?? i'm thinking hobby lobby!)

So, that's pretty much where I'm at right now!  

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who doesn't love kitties?

My eXpErIeNcE for this next project involves a lot of softness and cute!

Going to the humane society and petting cats!

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As you can see I'm pretty excited. I love cats, 'nuff said. 

So I think that my book will involve something that you can pet, since that's a big part of my experience.  I think that it will also involve lots of eyes looking and waiting for you to pick them out of all of the cats in the room.  I've been contemplating how to portray smell in a book....cats and dogs have that very distinct smell that may not be the most pleasant, but it's definitely one of the first things you notice when first walking into the humane society. 

So here's my experience video.  As you can tell, all of them are very interested in whoever happens to be in the room :)

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el cartel final!

Well here is my final poster! I'm pretty satisfied with it, except for the bottom left corner (with the mood stuff).  I have been staring at it for the past two days, and that is the best way I could think of to organize them.  I thought maybe using real pictures (instead of my little cartoony drawings!) would help, but I wanted to stick with the colors I had chosen so to show the color palette that would be used in the interior of the treehouse.
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we love posters!

So my poster's been coming along pretty well...I'm more satisfied with it now (especially that I have some awesome pictures thanks to Nathan!), but it still needs a lot more work.  I've learned some new tricks too from Jeremy using InDesign and Photoshop/Illustrator.
I suppose I'll put some pics up!

This is the picture I'm going to use for the foreground of my poster.  I really like the angle...you can see the roof and get a good sense of the window at the same time!

And this is the inside picture!! I reallly really realllyrylayerlyllyyyyy love this one.

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design design design.

WELLL...
as far as this poster goes....I'm struggling a bit. (or I was..)
And I don't know why, I figured it would be easy, me being a graphic design student and all. The night before the two poster ideas were due, I didn't get one wink of sleep.  I stayed up the entire night working on them, because I wasn't satisfied with anything that I made. Even after finishing, I was completely unhappy with both of them.  But after class on Tuesday, I saw some new directions that others were going and I really saw what I needed to do to my posters (in other words, completely start over).
So far, I've realized that in every poster sort of thing we do, I have always put too much stuff on it, and it's confusing as to what the main focal point is.  It's something I've really been trying to work on with other stuff I make (but I ultimately failed with these two posters...even after staying up for ten hours working on them!).  So that's what I'm going to try and do with my revised poster for Thursday...completely strip it down and only use the essentials.
There was something that Jeremy said on Tuesday that really struck me too (I even wrote it on my hand in sharpie as to remind myself!!) He said: "I'm smart.  The solution is smart. So how do I portray it?"
This encouraged me too, because after my dissatisfaction with my posters, I was extremely discouraged and I had no idea how to move on.  It reminded me that I AM smart, and I just need to figure out a way to show to others my ideas clearly and effectively.

So here I go! I'm off to do some designing!
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