Biannual Post

So I honestly don't have a good excuse as to why I only updated twice this year (so far). I will continue to apologize on my lack of posts in every post so don't worry! I've been out of my artsy loop I guess. I found out a while ago that 2 of my greeting cards I worked on at American Greetings were published! You can buy them online at www.just-wink.com or at your local Target ;)

Oh I randomly sent out letters to friends and made doodles for them. I took some photos with my crappy phone beforehand. I was also part of a Halloween "Monster Mash" art show at The Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery. It was really nice to work on something all the way through and get all nervous about prepping it for the show and finally seeing it on display. Maybe I'll get that same feeling about this post and want to update every week and show you all my work. Let's hope. Anyway, here's some stuff. (Click on them for a bigger view/slideshow!)

Anniversary Card

Baby Shower Card

"Gossip Ghoul" My piece for the Monster Mash show! I've been obsessed with Gossip Girl lately so I wanted to do bitchy monsters hanging out at a lame party.

Doodle for a friend.

Doodle for a friend in NY :)

Doodle for my sister I think.

Found this from a trip I took to Chicago / NY. I looked good obviously.

fashun sketch

another fashun sketch 2

I'll just leave you with this.

Intro to Web Work- CSS, Coding, and Cool sites

So last semester I took Intro to Web which is an open elective GIC class. It was really fun learning Dreamweaver and coding because it reminded me of my old myspace days and learning what code to put in to change my background color. I made 5 sites and we had to compile them in a final site which is http://webspace.ringling.edu/~kcruz/ if you're interested in seeing them online and in action!! My first few sites suck but it was fun once I got the hang of it.

This is the main page with the highlighted hover action.


My first site! ughh so bad lol.

My second site! so bad yet so cute because of my cat Sushi.


This is 3rd site, a mock music site.


This my portfolio site, the final site I made.


My favorite site was an informative site about an simple object that we picked. I chose glasses but wanted to explore them in a fashion timeline. I made all the icons/patterns and picked colors that reflected each time period. Here are some screen caps it.

Glasses vectors

Objects from the different eras.

Main page

Bifocal page


Cat Eye page

Hipster page

All 9 pages together


Hope you enjoy!!

Throwback sophomore year

This was a repackage project I did for Intro to GIC sophomore ear. I recently did a hands on project with sewing so it's funny to look back on the other things I've constructed. Wouldn't you prefer this on the grocery shelves?!