For our nephew’s 1 year birthday celebration, I worked on an image that would emulate a famous baby-food maker’s logo. We printed the image onto a mug using CafePress, a popular custom vendor, which will print your images on just about anything.
Here are the results:
For Candy’s birthday, I created a vector image in Illustrator by tracing a photograph and modifying her pose a bit. Then, I cut out the image and made a pop-up birthday card.
This image was printed and cutout to create a pop-up card.
This birthday card template features radial text around a portrait of June. This was done in illustrator. The font used was lost at the time the image was generated, hence the collapsed radial text.
Birthday card template
One of my first vector drawings. It’s of my wife, Lisa.
Lisa Vector Profile
Tonight, the Late Late Movie is… Dr. Frankenstein and Igor, a Match Made in Heaven.
Perhaps a little background is necessary:
Me: I used to like this girl who only dated thugs.
Ko: You’re the anti-thug.
Kosal finally finds a use for my empty noggin’.
It s hard to say exactly why you love someone. You can try to name characteristics about that person. Her She s smart, funny, and kind. I like her eyes, and the way she smiles. This generic answer is one that most readily pops into your mind, and anyone who hears it might be even more mystified by your feelings. Couldn t you find most of the same characteristics in other people John Public will ask.
Perhaps it is an exact mixture of those characteristics that you find appealing. It could be like how you like exactly two sugars and one cream in your coffee and a packet over or under would be disastrous. A better answer might be that the love has something to do with the experiences you ve shared. Not only the time you went to the zoo together and a monkey stole her hat, but also the lives you shared verbally, through phone, chat, or other conversation can be the reason for you love.
This consideration that is given to the reasons behind love begs for the answer to the question, Does love truly need a reason Although each person will find his or her own answer, I believe love has its own reason. Love can fail all explanations and reason, which is one of the greatest parts of the beauty that is life. Life and love are both so beautiful in that they can defy reason, and take you to such unpredictable places.
I will carry her over the threshold one day…
but until we get there, she carries me.
For my friend Peter’s birthday, I created a calendar using our friends as models. The introduction page is a trace of a Precious Moments statuette. The other pages are traced from pictures of friends with random backgrounds and stylistic choices.
Sample pages from the calendar follow. These were done completely in Adobe Illustrator.
Happy Birthday to PetezMaru.
