Well my journey through senior thesis is over. I learned a lot and now I’ll be off into the professional world. This has been a difficult semester for me, but now it’s done nd time to move forward. I cam up with a little something on my progress before this blog that showed what I [...]
Well, I’m just about finished! I’ve done some printing, and inserted a transparent image of John Muir into the bills. This is to emulate the new polymer bank notes. I ended up printing on a cotton paper since I didn’t know what the polymer bank notes look or feel like in person, but I’m happy [...]
My newest addition includes a second color on the left side of the note as well as bolder type so that it is more readable. I also knew that I wanted to include the security transparent window so I decided to incorporate John Muir into the window. I twill look much different when printed [...]
So yesterday I was supposed to post my update but my internet was being weird so I couldn’t do it. Anyways here’s a photo of my progress: I’m so close I can taste it! I know there are issue still but I”m confident I can have them all worked out tonight. I want to [...]
So I’ve put away the etching texture process for now and decided to work more on the layout which is coming along nicely. The photo here is a template that I’m pretty happy about right now. Looking back at the bills I made before the BFA show, I’m much happier with these bills now. Although [...]
So after some trial and error I’m getting closer to what I want, but it’s not done yet! So here’s my progress. The photos are just substitutes until I can figure out the engraving part. So they’re getting better. The leaf pattern on the one on the left is where the transparent window will be. [...]
Well, I’ve gotten to the point where I just was not happy with my results so I’m going back and tweaking a lot. I think my typography was off, and there was just too much color. Plus I hadn’t been able to get in intricate patterns because the illustration was taking so long. So I [...]
So I had recently put my thesis work on hold to work on other projects that I have going on right now. It’s hard to find an equal balance between thesis and my other projects plus work, but I am trying. Right now I have decided to concentrate more on the design on the bill [...]
I really need to start remembering to post more. Well I’m back from spring break and I’m already working my butt off. I turned in my progress for the BFA show but I didn’t get in. I kind of expected it because I wasn’t finished, but it was still a little disappointing. So now it’s [...]
So at this point in time I’m trying to get color incorporated into my illustrations. It’s harder than I was expecting and right now I only have one photo to share but I’m not happy with it yet. I’m going to be looking up more techniques online for photoshop and hopefully it will start looking [...]
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