Author Archives: Raymond Huynh
Bears Are Evil: Final Posting
The book took both more and less time to complete than I had initially expected. The book’s visual content, started on paper and completed digitally, was finished fairly quickly. My sister handled the illustrations while I handled the formatting and … Continue reading
Bears Are Evil: Past and Present
The book has gone through many changes since my sister and I first started work on it. The very first draft of the storyboards contained square backgrounds instead of the circular backgrounds we settled on for the final version. We … Continue reading
Bears Are Evil: Meet the Bob
The book is nearing completion already. All that is left is proofreading and correcting the remaining errors (such as the one on this page). In this picture, the group meets their fourth and final member. It is exactly what it … Continue reading
Girl’s punch is a mighty punch.
Although I was originally aiming for a children’s book’s art style, the book has instead shifted to using a more comic-like style. The colors are still varied and the background follows a more traditional/simple format (similar to the old “Goofus … Continue reading
EAB Fair
Overall impression: I was not very impressed by the fair overall. Compared to the NYAB Fair, the EAB fair had fewer works present in a much smaller space. It did feel like there were more people here than at the … Continue reading
FedEx Kinkos at Park Avenue and 21st Street
Address: 257 Park Avenue Phone: (646) 602-0074 Hours: 7AM – 11AM (Monday to Friday), 9AM – 9PM (Saturday, Sunday) Double-sided printing on 11×17 regular copy paper: $0.22 for black and white, $4.31 for color Trimming: $1.42 per trim Folding: $0.03 … Continue reading
Final Project: Not-Children’s Book
My final project will be a story book done in the style of a children’s book. The content will not be suited for an actual children’s book, however. The story will center around bears and people that hate bears. My … Continue reading
Japanese Binding
For this assignment, I used two separate catalogs from the same company and took out sections of pages that looked interesting on both the back and front pages. I used two sheets for the front and back covers because it … Continue reading
NY Artbook Fair
Overall, what I saw at the event was not much different from what I saw at Printed Matter. The building was different and the way things were laid out was different (storefront v. fair, standard store v. school with outdoor … Continue reading
Brainstorming P. 2
1. not-children’s book: The idea was to make a short story book which would have art similar to a children’s book (broad, easily defined shapes), but the story content would not be like that of a normal children’s book. … Continue reading