Graphic design portfolio

Graphic Design Portfolio
Akua Asamoah
December 2012
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no
possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
(Salvadore Dali)
Genn, Robert. Art Quotes by Salvadore Dali. The Painter's Keys, 4 Dec.
2012. Web. 4 Dec. 2012. <http://quote.robertgenn.com/auth_search.php?
authid=461>.
Graphic Design Portfolio ....Akua Asamoah

About Me
I am an Informal Artist..
I am not a formally trained artist. I have never taken any
coursework in drawing or had any person to teach me how to
draw.
I create artwork from imagination, from observation, and
from memory. I teach myself how to draw by using free online
materials available on the web, by studying images that I
see in my environment , and then trying to draw these images.
I can draw the following-People, Homes and Apartments floor
plans and interiors, Furniture, Clothing, logos, and facial
expressions.
I enjoy drawing people. The image in upper right corner is an
example of this. I like drawing realistic looking
individuals and drawing dwelling places using Sketchup.
Currently, I am interested in learning how to add personality
to and animate my characters by using facial expressions and
body language. Also, I am learning how to draw body parts and
make my characters move using computer programming
languages.
I hope you enjoy my art-work!
Table of Contents
1. People
Men
Women
Couples
Sci-Fi/Futuristic
Work-buddies
2. Clothing & Accessories
3. Facial Expressions
4. Places
4.Transportation-Cars, Trucks, Bikes, and More
5. Logos and Banners
6. Comics
7. Interiors/Exteriors
8. Hand-drawings & Sketches
9. Conclusions
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People
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered
mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a
sign?” Albert Einstein
"Quotes About Human." (282 Quotes). Good Reads, n.d. Web. 04 Dec.
2012. < http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag?id=human&page=1&utf8=
%E2%9C%93 >.

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The following slides of people were drawn while developing a website. The purpose of the website, which was first called,
A Step to the Top, was to provide links to free online courses and tutorials that an individuals can use to develop job-related
or career-skills. I picked the name of the site because it represents what the person is doing when he or she chooses to
improve their skills-they take a step closer to the top level of success.
I changed the name of the site to Proficiency Margin. I formed the word from the definitions of Proficient and Profit Margin.
Proficient means to be advanced, able, accomplished, and have competency in a subject area. It means to be a skilled
expert. Proficiency means "advancement in knowledge or skill“. Profit Margin, a Financial Term, is a ratio of profitability. It
is revenue a company gets to keep after paying its expenses. Proficiency Margin means provides you with the resources
you need to develop profitable skills.
To develop the site, I came up with a theme. I developed an imaginary company called Proficiency Margin and developed a
staff for it. The staff represented fictional characters who do what I do for the site-find free online resources with
educational values, evaluate them, and then publish it on the site. Also, the staff is responsible for designing, writing the
text on the website, maintaining the site, and also for responding to contacts from the public. Finally, the staff is responsible
for managing the bookstore that I created on the site using Amazon Astore program.
In addition to this, I created a fictional city for the office to be located at. The drawings in the cities and buildings,
transportation (bus & cars), and interiors are part of the city where the company is located. Also, I needed to develop office
The following slides contain the images that were created for the site using Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Draw:
People: 4,5,6,7,23
Cities: 18
Furniture: 21
Transportation: 22
Logos & Business Cards: 26
In the end, I decided to not use the fictional company for the website and chose to not use the images.

Men

Women

Couples

More People

Holiday Characters

Clothing & Accessories
“A girl should be two things: classy and
fabulous.” Coco Chanel
"Quotes About Face." Quotes About Fashion (292 Quotes). Good Reads,
n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2012. <http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag?
id=fashion&page=1&utf8=%E2%9C%93>.

Fabulous & Classy

More Clothing

Facial Expressions
“The face is a picture of the mind with
the eyes as its interpreter.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Quotes About Face." Quotes About Face (54 Quotes). Good Reads, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2012.
<http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/face?page=1>.

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I wanted to study how to produce different facial expressions using eyes, eyebrows, and mouth. To do this, I
changed the shape, size, and position of these features to attempt to produce different expressions.
The first slide, “Futuristic People”, is an attempt to do this and produce Science-fiction like characters. To do this,
I drew blue images and changed eyebrows, eye-shapes, and smiles to learn how to portray the emotions of
sadness, anger, grief, and disinterest. In addition to this, I wanted to learn how to make Sci-fi like characters and
what goes into making this type of character. I was not very creative in doing this but I did enjoy the thought
process involved in trying to do this. I decided to draw circles on the faces of my Blue Characters. These circles
represent cultural markings for their group. The males have theirs in a horizontal line on the right cheek and the
women have their circles in an arc in the right side of the cheek. The other two images(brown) represent a male
and female from a fictional tribe that I would like to someday use in a cartoon for a fable I considered writing a
while ago.
The next slide, “Eyes”, focuses only on the eyes. It’s a study on how eyes affect interpretation of a person’s
emotions.
The final slide, “Can you guess who had a bad day at the office?”, is also a study on how facial features and
changing the head position can be used to convey different emotions in drawings. It’s also an attempt to create
older characters using wrinkles and fine lines.
If you would like to tell me what the facial expressions says to you about the drawings, you can do so at this site

Futuristic People

Eyes
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These drawings were created to examine how eyebrows and eyeball position affects interpretation of a
person’s facial expression. All eyes are looking at the yellow ball. What does the face say to you? Use
contact information in description for this presentation to provide feedback.

Can you guess who had a bad day at the
office?

Places & Transportation
"Everyone has a photographic
memory, some just don’t have film.“
Moore, Daniel. Funny Travel Quotes. Unique-southamerica-travel-
experience.com, 2006-2013. Web. 4 Dec. 2012. <http://www.unique-
southamerica-travel-experience.com/funny-travel-quotes.html>

Cities & Buildings

Interiors & Exteriors

Kitchen Model Using Open Office Draw

Furniture

Transportation

Proficiency Margin Staff & Visitors
Created Using Microsoft Word

Proficiency Margin Staff
Created Using OpenOffice Draw

Logos, Websites, & Flyers
“Logos and branding are so important. In a
big part of the world, people cannot read
French or English--but are great in
remembering signs” Karl Lagerfeld
"Quotes About Logo" Quotes About Logo (17 Quotes). Good Reads,
n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2012.
<http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/logo>.

Logos & Website Banners

Websites

Website Design
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SnackSleuth is a website I designed while learning website layout methods, how to create full-window websites, and
CSS opacity. The site allows a user to find the nutritional values of items on a menu, such as a Hamburger meal. The
components of the meal are decomposed into it's ingredients. Images of each individual ingredient is placed on the
screen. When the visitor clicks the image, a table pops up that shows the visitor the calories, fat, sodium, and other
nutritional data. Client-side scripting was used to create this table and CSS was used to convert the image on the left
to that on the right.
Before After

Flyers

Flyers
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?
If people
could rent
space in your
head…
Would you be
as RICH as a
Billionaire?
OR would
you be as
BROKE as a
PAUPER?

Comics
“Always laugh when you can. It is
cheap medicine.”
Lord Byron
Laughter Quotes-Famous Quotations & Sayings on Laughter. Famousquotes123, n.d. Web. 4 Dec.
2012. <http://www.famousquotes123.com/laughter-quotes.html>Laughter Quotes-Famous
Quotations & Sayings on Laughter. Famousquotes123, n.d. Web. 4 Dec. 2012.
<http://www.famousquotes123.com/laughter-quotes.html>

Vegan Birds
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Morning Earl,
What’d ya like for
breakfast?
A book a day
KEEPs the doctor
away! Thank
God Earl bought
this book of
Vegan Recipes!

Benefits of a Vegan Life on Worms
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Thank GOD these
birds found this
book on Vegetarian
Cuisine! My
healthcare bill hasn’t
been this low in
years!

Benefits of Exergaming
35
75,76…84…-oh my neck…
There must be a better
way to strengthen my
mind
Yeah There is! It’s called
Videogames!

Hand-drawings and Sketches
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no
possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
(Salvadore Dali)
Genn, Robert. Art Quotes by Salvadore Dali. The Painter's Keys, 4 Dec.
2012. Web. 4 Dec. 2012. <http://quote.robertgenn.com/auth_search.php?
authid=461>.

Pencil Drawings

More Pencil Drawings

The End
Thank You for Your Time
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others
see.” ~ Edgar Degas
Goodreads. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 July 2013.

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