Jason Reaume

I'll be leaving Michigan, and moving to the Dallas, Texas area!  I'm pretty excited.  I'm looking forward to new opportunities and areas to photograph!  Everyone tells me that it's really hot...but it's a "dry heat."  If I had a dollar every time someone told me that...

Stay tuned.

In my design class, I was assigned to take a book that I enjoyed and create a movie poster for it.  The catch was, it couldn't already be adapted into a film.  No problem.  I immediately knew what book to select: Like a Hole in the Head by Jen Banbury.  Sadly, it's out of print, but you can pick up a copy online for really cheap.

In order to successfully complete the assignment, I needed to meet certain criteria.  I won't go into the details, because I like you and would rather not bore you to death.  All you needed to know is that I met the criteria- but before I did, I knew I couldn't make this too easy for me.  What to do?  I knew I wanted an image of the story's protagonist, Jill, on the poster.  So one would assume I needed a photo of a woman, right?  Nah...I'll just photograph me in a wig and do my best to "transform" my photo into that of a woman.  Now, you can be the judge and decide if you think I succeeded.  At the very least, I think I made myself a little more attractive.



A note to the author of Like a Hole in the Head:  Jen, if you've stumbled upon my blog whilst Googling your name (admit it, we've all done it): Please, please write more fiction.  As far as I know, Like a Hole in the Head is your only novel, and I love it dearly.  Heck, I liked it enough to wear a silly wig for you...that has to mean something.

For another assignment in my Illustrator class, I had to create a logo for my (fictional) company.  Once I finished the logo, I felt a lot more confident in my Illustrator skills.  I also really was glad that I bought a Wacom tablet.  I'm using it more in Illustrator that I ever have in Photoshop.
 

Whether it's a job or school, I'm always pushing myself to do more than the minimum requirements. So when I was assigned the task of vectorizing myself for my Adobe Illustrator class, I pondered how I could make this more challenging for myself. Ah ha! Why don't I give myself two heads! My inspiration came from one of my favorite comedy/horror movies, Army of Darkness.  This is my first attempt at creating a vector image of a person, and I don't think it turned out too badly.