I would alter your design more. Though you added cover up over the boobs, the face, the hair, the arm positioning, the comb, almost everything is still extremely similar to the original design.
If it goes on a book and the original artist sees it, you and your mom would be up poop creek...
HAHAHA...."a while back" makes me feel so damn old. But yes, an old school BFAer here.
20 is still a lot from the old days. My class topped out at 16 and before that, it was 12 a semester. The school was putting pressure on them to accept more students a semester, but the quality remains the...
Woah. You know my name? Have we interacted in the past? HAHA.
I graduated three years ago. Fall 2010. We had the "Work is the New Play" senior show in the campus gallery because we were too lazy to fundraise and the campus gave us a grant to use the space—the gallery looked like a big living...
Dude!! CSULB!!!!!
If there's any advice I can give you, learn the traditional branding rules from Sunook Park, how to write from Mike Whitlow, and how to push your work experimentally through Andrew Byrom.
I wish I did more of that in my BFA years.
Good luck, its a great school with a great...
Just at the bottom of the behanced page for the project, put in small type: "Image source: Internet." If you know the specific artist's name, use that instead of "internet" and you'll be fine.
I [expletive deleted] love this. This is serious [expletive deleted] truth when it comes to young talent.
I have this printed and taped to my desk to make sure I never forget.
BAHAHAHAHAHA.
Short breakdown for people that is interested:
Ohio State Student.
Went to NY as a Journalist/writer
Worked his way up to eventually becoming a Creative Director of Bloomingdales
Got bored with it.
In 1994, he left Bloomingdales to take a risk and become a CD at a then emerging...
Motion is a HUGE thing right now in the field of design. UI/UX designers are needed just as bad.
Sadly, Fong is right. Traditional print design is dying. Even in the advertising industry "print" is only about 37% of media nowadays in comparison to almost 80% 15-20 years ago.
Environmental...
Truth.
This business is nothing but hustle. To be in this industry you need to keep working hard and wanting to make yourself better. You have to put up with the long days, longer nights, screaming creative directors, etc.
You also have to promote yourself like a boss. A website and/or a...