How to Make Coffee

How to Brew Coffee from Anne Lackney on Vimeo.



finished video. Though for some reason the music doesn't work on vimeo, so I guess I'll have to use the .swf file on the server. Technology hates me

Chicago Map Illustration

Speedball Pen/black India ink

Speedball pen Pros: fantastic line quality, Illustration teacher "falling in love with my drawing style"

Cons: never have clean hands again

French Press Coffee Poster

Illustration- Real Simple Recipe Illustration

Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwiches

I used hand-carved linoleum stamps, chalk pastels and pigma micron hand written type. My teacher picked it as one of his favorites in the class. YES!!!

"Infectious" Storyboard

Flash doesn't want me to upload my actual animation, apparently, but here is my storyboard.

Pulp Fiction Typography

This isn't a TV show intro or movie titles because I don't really watch TV. Or movies. BUT this is a typographical animation from Pulp Fiction, which is one of the few movies that I have both watched and liked.

First Post/Inspiration: 1970s Manga

The colors are always phenomenal and it has a certain joy to it that I think a lot of modern manga lacks. (this may just be the eye-sparkles, I'm not sure.) I like the art deco feel to the drawings as well; I see a little bit of Erte in the accessories and altogether the style is playful and fun and bursting with bright colors. (I do love the big hair and androgynous men and even those 70s fashions; if only the 70s had looked so good in real life!) Here are some examples:

Swan, by Kyoko Ariyoshi

and Bride of Deimos,  illustrated by Yuho Ashibe

I can't get enough of it! I'm not really an anime fan or anything like that, but I could look at these kinds of pictures all day long. Gorgeous!