Janice Dodd Illustrator
Janice Dodd
BIOGRAPHY Janice Dodd was born on the island of Oahu, Hawaii where she lived for two weeks before leaving to travel the continental US with her parents. Janice has attended Sierra College, Rocklin CA since Fall 2012 in the Applied Art & Design program. During her education she has gained experience in many of the Adobe CC Applications as well as concept sketching and color theory. Her creative process includes the use of drawing pencils, ink markers, and color pencils or markers, but could also include a lightbox, Wacom pen and tablet, or scanner depending on the desired output. Janice is a creative problem solver with strong communication skills and a good eye for detail. She is enthusiastic and loves working on teams, but also brings with her strong project management skills. In her free time Janice enjoys participating in the Sierra College Applied Art & Design club as a key organizer, as well as helping others learn new skills or software. She has created prototype logos for other clubs at Sierra College, and an original design for inclusion in a printed book.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Graphic Design
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Illustration page 9 Story Illustration page 14 Character Development
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Graphic Design
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Janice Dodd
Name: Moonlight Koi Medium: Original sketch done in pieces on tracing paper then scanned and pieced together in Adobe Photoshop. Created 2014.
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Graphic Design
Design Problem: Create a poster design for Earth Day
Solution: I wanted to combine the cliché Earth Day images that you see without using them in a cliché format. My approach was to show how nature is important to the earth, how nature is necessary in supporting the earth. For my color pallet I opted to veer away from the standard green and instead to use the brilliant orange of a sunset or sunrise. Created 2015.
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Janice Dodd
Design Problem: Create an 11x17 Holiday Sale & Show poster design
Solution: My approach to this project was to create a warm comforting design that would reflect my emotion toward the holidays. Created 2014.
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Graphic Design Design Problem: To create a design using surrealism in the style of Salvador Dali Solution: My approach to this project was to create something fun and yet surreal. The phrase about Art being larger than life kept running through my head. So that is exactly what I created, an applied art student in a situation where the art is larger than life. Created 2015.
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Design Problem: The scope of this project was to create a self promotion poster advertising a fictitious showing of our works at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
Solution: My concept behind this design was to create a setting that was complementary to our works. When thinking of a title for my show I came up with the “Ink Works” which made me think of a sort of grunge synonymous with graffiti. This made me think of alleys and brick walls, so I chose a marker font to use for my piece. Created 2015.
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Illustration
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Design Problem: The scope of this project was to go into the Japanese garden at Sierra College and find a scene we found appealing and recreate it using a line work style we selected off a provided sheet.
Solution: I selected two different line styles for my sketches. The first was a light delicate style which I used for the shrine. The second was a darker more textured style which I used on the tree trunk. Created January, 2015.
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Illustration Design Problem: Create an emotional line; then use it to create an animal
Solution: The line I created had a very bold presence that lent itself to the nature of the Eagle. Having an idea in mind I searched images of Eagles in nature to gain the right perspective. Using these images as inspiration I sketched out thumbnails to reinforce the layout before creating a rough image. I then created a refined sketch to use as a base before taking ink markers to the final piece. Created 2015.
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Janice Dodd
Name: Dragon in the Clouds Medium: Ink marker on drawing paper. Created 2014.
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Illustration
Design Problem: Create a Goldberg style machine to transform a sphere to a cube in seven steps.
Solution: My concept was inspired by the Red Bull car with the can mounted on the roof. The car reminded me of a cannon which was perfect for starting off the process of transformation. Created 2015
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Design Problem: The project was to create an organic volumetric design Solution: My concept was to create a design with depth, but still keeping a natural flow to the piece. To achieve this I used both texture and shading with ink markers as well as cool grey color markers Created 2015.
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Story Illustration
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Design Problem: This was a class project to develop a character, background story, and show the character in several different positions and/or locations.
Solution: My Concept for this character was to create someone that anyone could identify with. I wanted her to be fairly plain looking of average height. I didn’t want to go with the cliché, beautiful, perfect looking character that was often seen in stories. Her clothing reflects her quiet casual personality. She always looks nice, but is always comfortable. The linework on this series is light for the character outlines keeping the darker linework for emphasis on textures and depth perception. Colorization was done with Prismacolor markers. Created 2015
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Story Illustration Design Problem: This illustration was created as a class project for a published article titled Ghost in the Machine. This article was originally illustrated by the class professor and was presented to us as he had received it. The article was not yet written so there was only the title to go on and the requirement that the illustration must show internal parts of a computer.
Solution: My concept on this piece was that the ghost would be a supervisor or office manager of sorts whose job was to manage the flow of data being processed. To keep to the requirements I placed his desk in the center of the paths of circuits on a circuit board to symbolize the flow of data. The small robotic vehicles are moving the data (stacks of paper) to be processed by the ghost. This illustration was sketched in graphite, then outlined on tracing paper with ink markers. the texture details were added last. The finished illustration was scanned and colorized in Adobe Photoshop. Created 2014
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Janice Dodd
Design Problem: This illustration was created as a class project for a published article about Starbucks vs Mom and Pop coffee shops. The article was originally illustrated by the class professor.
Solution: The implication of the article was that Starbucks would push individually owned coffee shops out of business by locating their locations nearby or next to already established businesses My approach to this problem was to show Starbucks as an immovable force coming through to steam roll over the competition. I wanted to symbolize both the steam roller as well as the individual coffee shop in a way that the viewer would be able to connect with. The illustration was first sketched in graphite. Then a final clean outline was created on tracing paper with ink markers. The detail textures were all added last by hand with ink markers. The completed illustration was scanned and colorized in Adobe Photoshop. Created 2014.
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Janice Dodd 7712 Coco Bay Ct Elk Grove, CA 95758 Janice.dodd@rocketmail.com
OBJECTIVE: I am seeking meaningful employment with a company where I can utilize my knowledge of illustration, graphic design and print production in a collaborative environment to help produce the perfect solution for their customers design problems.
EDUCATION: Sierra College, Rocklin CA AA Degree in Illustration, Graphic Design, and Multimedia, anticipated graduation date: 2016. Skill Certificate in Illustration, Graphic Design, and Multimedia, anticipated graduation date: 2016.
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Creative Problem Solver Strong Communicator Detail Oriented Team Player Strong Project Management skills Enthusiastic
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Graphite Charcoal (vine, stick, pencils) Ink (brush & nibs) Ink markers (thick and thin) Color pencils Light Box Tracing Paper
Vector Graphics Creation Raster Image Editing Wacom Pen & Tablet Scanner Ipad Mac PC Illustrator Photoshop Acrobat Wacom Tablet Interface InDesign
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE: Command+N – Sierra College Applied Art & Design Club
Main organizer of meetings, recruiting and communicating with members: 2015-2016
Custom Illustration for inclusion into a book
Collaborated in the design and layout a book of illustrated designs as well as contributed illustrations: Fall 2014
Poster creation for Club Advertisement
Created promotional posters for club meetings to be posted in the Applied Art building: 2015-2016
Logo Design
Create a New logo for Proposal for the Sierra College Agriculture club: Sprint 2015
Logo Re-design
Redesigned a logo for proposal for the Sierra College Student Nursing Club: Spring 2015
Standard Register
Account Specialist, managing stocks, files, mailings, and various print related items: 2006-2012
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