Rucha's portfolio: 2014

Some Font/Theme/Name Ideas for Ebay Shop

More Backgrounds

"Cutesy" Type Backgrounds-Made using Adobe Photoshop

Made using Microsoft Paint. The intent was to create a chevron type style print.

Possible Outfit Combo-Digital Sketch

This is a digital sketch of a potential outfit. Made with Microsoft Paint.

I messed around with opacity, creating an "album cover" if I were to be a singer in another life. No, actually.......I just really like designing stuff. Made with Adobe Photoshop. Background from Tumblr (don't remember which blog).

Amateur Photography

Although most of my work is done digitally, I don't like to limit myself to one medium. Therefore, I often experiment with different canvases to see what I can create. Recently I took some pictures and experimented the black and white dichotomy, motion pictures, and angling close-ups. These were taken on vacation in Austin, TX.

Neon Background

I love making backgrounds, because they can be used again and again in a variety of ways for different projects. Here is an impromptu background I made in Adobe Photoshop. All I did was overlap different colored shapes and reduce the opacity to make the previous layers visible, creating a mix and match as colors blended together.

Poem by Pablo Neruda

Mental Images used as Inspiration

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you, little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me,
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine. / Pablo Neruda

Home Collage

I have made a collage grouping together aesthetic home ideas. Themes include bohemian, eclectic, gypsy, clean, and spa like feel.

Another Way Logo Makeover

Another Way is a website that provides help and shelter to domestic abuse victims. They are a domestic violence and rape crisis center. When I started volunteering for them, their logo had been unchanged for a long time. My job was to give their organization a new feel by redesigning their logo, by incorporating their trademark colors, purple and teal. The old logo:

The potential candidate I sent in. My submission incorporates the colors teal and purple and also features sisterly support emphasized by two women hugging each other (they are embedded in the font):

"Cute" Themed Schedule

I made my own schedule template just so I will be motivated to put things on it! Created in Microsoft Paint.

Hands Reaching for Heart

This is a mixed media (Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Paint) digital art, theme dark. The hands I used in the piece are not my own work, but from various other sources. Titled "Hands Reaching for Heart".

Hands Reaching for Heart

KPop Drawings

Korean pop music is really getting popular in the States. I, myself, discovered it a couple of years ago and there is one particular boy band I really like, called MBLAQ. My favorite member in that band is Lee Joon. Here is some artwork I did on them. Background created in Adobe Photoshop, drawings in Microsoft Paint.

LEE JOON

"Pomegranate Splash"-Swarovski Contest

This was a entry I made for the Swarovski contest on Polyvore, a fashion collage website. Unfortunately, I didn't win but I'm still proud of what I made. Titled "Pomegranate Splash".

Pomegranate Splash

"Janoi" Invitations

Janoi is a special event in a India young boy or girl's life, much like the Jewish Bat Mitzvah. Two of my cousins had their janoi last summer and I was in charge of making the invitations. Here is what I came up with (Pictures are of the Hindu God Ganesh). Done using Microsoft Paint.