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misslucydarby
California
20-something - artist - designer - photographer -
Interests: writing, photography, improv, self-education, reading, graphic design,
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee poster - Adobe Photoshop CS6 - - - Well, here it is. The first show of the season. Experimenting with minimalism (and they let me). Next up is Lend Me a Tenor and A Charlie Brown Christmas. I need to start doing graphics... Continue reading
Posted Sep 5, 2014 at out of the loop
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Jazz Events Announcement - Adobe Photoshop CS6 - - - Difficulty scale! Adding color to a poster.... versus fitting a freakishly large amount of type on a limited space and still making it legible. Who would win? I'm actually quite pleased with this accomplishment. Not the most visually challenging (Metamorphoses... Continue reading
Posted Sep 5, 2014 at out of the loop
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Speech Collage: The Legacy - Adobe Photoshop CS6 - - - This was an on-the-side request from the speech instructors. I was so hung up on making it more collage-y. Like, ya know, cut-n-paste with sharp corners and people peeking out behind one another. I settled for the tile effect.... Continue reading
Posted Sep 5, 2014 at out of the loop
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An English Garden - Choral Concert - Adobe Photoshop CS6 - - - Finally figured out a template for the choir director that he's happy with. Subtle, old-fashioned, sophisticated and very straightforward. Nothing too crazy... unless he asks for it. Sometimes I'm happy that some of these projects don't take... Continue reading
Posted Sep 5, 2014 at out of the loop
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I don't really have any comments regarding Labor Day. Barely crossed my mind today. This post isn't about that. I just have some thoughts and comments. Letters and words. Bits of RGB light gleaming from my screen to yours. Allow me to talk about perspective. Waiting for a ride in... Continue reading
Posted Sep 1, 2014 at out of the loop
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Photos taken March 2014 Do you know how freaking hard it is to find affordable rent in Orange County? If you're reading this and you live in Orange County, then ya. Ya feel me. I got approved for my very first apartment today. To be clear, that doesn't mean much.... Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2014 at out of the loop
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Always uttered with an implied ellipses. Never finished. A good thing, a bad thing, you decide. But this endeavor is going to be freaking cute. Continue reading
Posted Jul 19, 2014 at Spitfire & Sassafras
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Swear-tuh-god, I have been working on this website for 5+ hours every evening for the past three nights. Between domain mapping and column widths and sidebar troubleshooting... I'm just about ready to punch a cupcake. Or inhale a cupcake. Sometimes I wish we already had gallons of content to advertise... Continue reading
Posted Jul 19, 2014 at Spitfire & Sassafras
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This is a test post to test out the width of the colum and the width of 500px for the photoset below. Two lovely ladies who take pictures of each other. We should really invest in a remote shutter so we can take photos with the both of us. They're... Continue reading
Posted Jul 18, 2014 at Spitfire & Sassafras
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Theatre Arts 14/15 Season Announcement - Adobe Photoshop CS6 - - - I had an idea for a minimalist poster series (a style I've never attempted before). The colors in the triangles are already assigned to the background of the posters. The tricky part is selecting the perfect object/icon/image/character/whatever to... Continue reading
Posted Jul 8, 2014 at out of the loop
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Godspell poster - Adobe Photoshop CS6 - - - Nothing like ripping off multiple artists to meet a deadline. “If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research. - Wilson Mizner Continue reading
Posted Jul 8, 2014 at out of the loop
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I really need to spend some time cleaning up my blog. It's like washing my face. I should buckle down and buy the fancy cleanser and wash every morning. But laziness rears its drowsy head and just throwing some random CSS coding feels "good enough for now." I'm more thoughtful... Continue reading
Posted Jul 8, 2014 at out of the loop
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How To Pull Text & Typography from Low-Res Images It's a week before tech for SCLO's Hello Dolly in the McKinney Theatre. Our scenic painter needs a transperancy of a period window sign for the millinery. The only source image we have is a low-res photo from Vintage Maine Images.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 2, 2014 at out of the loop
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Jazz Camp 2014 t-shirts - Adobe Photoshop CS6 - - - Yay for decaptitated models! This was an offhand request from one of the other admins. She did a quick-and-dirty design for last year's tshirts and asked if I could whip something up. Consider this CoolWhip. The Camp Director likes... Continue reading
Posted Jun 23, 2014 at out of the loop
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So I'm doing this thing next Saturday-Sunday. And I almost passed out when I got the e-mail. But I don't want to jinx it. To keep as vague as possible, I was asked to report on my proficiency in the Photoshop techniques listed below: layers, including multiplying image size vs.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 14, 2014 at out of the loop
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- - - Graduation Invitation (Front/Back) - Adobe Photoshop CS6 - Adobe InDesign CS6 - Photography by Lucy Darby - - - Look at them, darnit. They're so grown up. My mom refuses to throw the standard black-and-white graduation party. So she asked me to do a Ferris-Bueller-inspired invitation and... Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2014 at out of the loop
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- - - Urban. Sophisticated. Smart. Hipster. Album cover. And then: Banksy. Shepard Fairey. These were the buzz words from the Godspell concept meeting last week. As their unofficial in-house graphic designer, guess who has the pleasure of taking on this project? Above is one of three concepts I've created... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2014 at out of the loop
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A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms - Poster - Adobe Photoshop CS5 - - - I don't know if ya'll recall my Mozart/Mendelssohn poster. The director/conductor wanted something "young, funky, and hip" so I gave him "hipster Mozart." On a tight deadline, I didn't get any direction for this one...... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2014 at out of the loop
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Summer of Theatre poster - Adobe Photoshop CS5 - - - Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2014 at out of the loop
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Godspell poster - Adobe Photoshop CS5 - - - They gave me the photograph of our outdoor setup for Children of Eden. This was... August 2012. A few days before my 19th birthday. Basically, the hottest three days of my life were spent setting up the stage, the lights, the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2014 at out of the loop
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SCLO Summer of Theatre advertisement - Adobe Photoshop CS5 - - - Fairly straightforward. This is the 4"x6" ad that goes on the back of the brochure. A 20-minute project that was due today. I intend to use the fonts for the poster design... maybe not the starry vintage background... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2014 at out of the loop
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All in the Timing poster - Adobe Photoshop CS5 - - - SO. The public relations officer put me in touch with the director of this show. Who gave me the following request: I see a very dark poster that is dark all around but in the middle there is... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2014 at out of the loop
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Angels for the Arts Scholarship Reception invitation - Adobe Photoshop CS5 - - - For two stock images and some text, it ain't shabby... ...but it ain't gorgeous neither. I do like how the text is laid out into a little pyramid composition. I thought it was a good solution... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2014 at out of the loop
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I swear to God there is nobody on earth who actually lives in a perfect IKEA bedroom. So I accidentally jumped on the whole "spring cleaning" bandwagon when I started going through my bookshelves. Filled up a donation box (yay for Goodwill) with books... and then clothes... and then weird... Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2014 at out of the loop