Maple Articulations
A blog about a student in college studying graphic design who loves to make traditional art as well
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Happy to see that I am the Inspiration for Winnipeg's Chinatown's new Banner art
In art school I was taught that inspiration and muses are to be respected. Especially art competition winners past and present. I don't mind Canadian cities gaining inspiration from their applicants especially when I am a Canadian veteran. I just think it's interesting how similar things are sometimes even when no one acknowledges how important the past and elders are. I am happy to have left a contribution to Winnipeg. Because of me and others Winnipeg did see better days. I am happy to see that diversity and the Canadian Asian culture matters to Winnipeg. As a person who helped shape Canada, I love all the cultures of Canada and their artists.
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Spa Billboard Conceptualization
Friday, October 20, 2023
Fluevog Shoe Ad Assignment
Monday, October 9, 2023
Project: Save The Aliens in Area 51
Aliens need to becareful where they go especially when trying to save |
- Tampa Bay, Florida is horrible to the aliens.
- Orlando is better but it's like a weird child-like matrix.
- Miami in better days can coexist with aliens well.
- No data is allowed to exist about Alabama and Mississippi. All I can say is they seem racist.
- The big city in Georgia seems nicer to aliens but they also deal with racism.
- Louisiana is dangerous but can be repaired.
- Texas is home to a lot of liars. They don't really like aliens it seems.
- Nevada seems to depend on certain factors. It seems like a danger zone but maybe not always.
- Philadelphia can be repaired and then is anti-racism but I truly think the aliens need help here nowadays.
- Colorado is very temperamental. Not sure anymore, but I think they can be repaired but be-careful.
- The Carolinas are racist these days.
- California seems to like aliens but not religion or the religious.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Homeless Shelter for Women Advertisements
Monday, August 14, 2023
Website and poster for Alberta Forest Care
Information and Excerpts about the plight of Alberta’s forests:
Trees are mostly removed by using the logging technique known as clear-cutting. Clear-cutting involves using large machinery to remove enormous tracts of forest. This exposes the earth, which is therefore easily erodible. - Clear-cutting a forest alters the kinds of flora and animals that live there. - In the cleared regions, grasses and plants start to emerge. - Many of the forest's species must locate new habitats and food sources. The forestry firm occasionally replaces the trees it has removed but they never succeed in restoring the original ecology, despite their best attempts.
I
propose a different way. I recently scoped out the middle east side of the
province. I drove from Lloydminster to Vermillion Alberta. While on the road I
saw so much land prepared for cows to graze on. Someone told me that the
farmers had cut a lot of the forests that use to be there to make room for
these free roaming cows. I love that they have room to walk around in and eat
but these hilly lands were bigger than most of the small cities in this Alberta
region. I think the big and successful farming businesses should give 1/3 or ¼
of their land to build cities. The trees have already been cut and are nowhere
to be seen. We need to utilize these vast hills and give the customers and
consumers of these cow products that the farmers make money on by building them
a town, or a small city so they can live and buy even more stuff. The cows
don’t need 3 hills worth of grazing pastures. I feel like that is a little
excessive.
Saturday, August 5, 2023
The Poster I Made for The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow
The poster’s concept art highlights the two important key characters of the group game called “The Werewolves of Millers Hollow.” The pilgrims who close their eyes at night to sleep and the werewolves who open their eyes at night to kill. In the little village of Millers Hollow, where this portable party game is set, werewolves commit murders every night. Before the village loses its final few residents, it is now necessary to seize control and vanquish this ancient evil. The poster has a cheeky sense of trouble brewing in the air about it while the beautiful, blindfolded lady Abrill, gives the poster a sense of drama. Technically, the guy Juenzo isn't really a werewolf. The person with wolf characteristics is a friend of the redhead, and he's secretly supposed to be a werewolf since that's what the card he picked up states. The background is a photoshop stencil effect on a pilgrim town photograph. I like how it shows pilgrims gathered and running around town. It’s like an intriguing scene from a movie that makes you hope that the good guys in the game win. I find playing this card game to be very captivating, especially when the special roles are used. The Sheriff, The Hunter, the Witch, the Little Kid, The Fortune Teller. The Werewolves of Millers is a guessing game. Because no one knows who is who and everyone has knowledge to contribute and identities to hide at the same time, this people card game is incredibly intriguing.
The
game starts by the moderator introducing the scenario, which is a sleepy small
town, maybe in an alternate dimension. Late 16th-century Pilgrim area of the Southeast South Carolina region. The residents of the town are individuals who are focused on maintaining their farms and crops
on a daily basis. One afternoon, a bunch of schoolchildren head down to the
stream at the edge of town to go frog catching. The silence is abruptly broken
by a scream as the kids scramble up the hillside to their parents' arms for
protection. Words like "Terrifying!" and "Blood!" almost escape
their shaky mouths as they point trembling fingers at the willow trees along the
creek. When the grownups get at the creek, they see one evening guard reclining
against a willow tree. His body was ripped, with gashes everywhere. Is he alive? What can be capable of doing this? The word werewolf flows into their minds. The search for answers is on! To appease their fans, this
game has released several expansion packs after its initial 2001 release.