■Illustration Here's some of my art from my Illustration class (9/2/03-11/4/03).     ■Interior Design Project Medium: Ink pen and markers Paper: 11x14 graphic 360 paper Ramblings: The ink pen is a designer's pen with Indian ink and a very fine ball-point tip.  The markers are professional-type markers.  Anyway, this is what I came up with for the interior design assignment.  It calls for drawing a room or some type of indoor establishment, including things like wood, glass, reflection, texture, metal, and a couple people.  I decided to draw a mall; I made tons of mistakes. >_<  I intended the stairways to be escalators, but I had already drawn most of the floor so it left no room for me to draw them.  I screwed up the perspective on the 2nd floor.  I sort of got away with it since I put more color focus into the stores and walls.  The "Exp" store looks ugly and out of place because it was the last store to be drawn and I drew it too fast to get this God forsaken thing over it.  I purposely drew the stores freehand and with no ink pen outlines because the rest of the design was time-consuming enough to draw with the ruler (I hate drawing with a ruler).  Overall, I think it came out pretty good.  It was the best in the class.         ■New Yorker Project Medium: Ink pen, watercolor, watercolor pencils, markers Paper: 11x14 graphic 360 paper, cropped to 9½x11 Ramblings: The New Yorker is a well known design magazine in New York.  It's mostly known for its exquisite front covers drawn by excellent illustrators.  This project is to make believe that we're in charge of making a Thanksgiving-themed front cover for the New Yorker.  I chose to draw a couple visiting their grand parents house because family is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Thanksgiving.  Anyway, the background was drawn with watercolors and watercolor pencils.  Watercolor pencils are specially made so that they turn into watercolor when you run over them with a wet brush.  I chose these two mediums for the background because I wanted something kind of blurry.  I then drew the people with the ink pen and markers so that they stick out nice and bold.         ■Pointillism Project Medium: Ink pen and ink bottle Paper: 11x14 graphic 360 paper, cropped to 11x9 Ramblings: This is the book cover assignment.  It is a face that has to be drawn in ink and only with pointillism, hatching and crosshatching.  The teacher suggested to draw the face and body with pointillism and the hair with hatching and crosshatching, so I did.  Yup, her whole body and shadows is nothing but lots o' dots.  It only took me, oh...  about 6 hours! >_<  Since I rox0r with art, I completed this project in only 3 attempts.  Everyone else in the class had to redo their projects like 6-10 times before they came up with something flawless.  This project was the last one so it was indeed the most difficult.  I used the ink bottle and a brush to color in the solid black areas.  The paper got very lumpy when it dried.  I scanned this picture when it was in its lumpy state.  I used Photoshop to erase the lumps in the dark areas, but, as shown in the picture, I was unable to with the hair.  The end result was without lumps because it was glued to a foam board and spread out nice and flat.