Week 6

Assignment: Illustration With Text




Craft:
I used illustrator, obviously. I used the gradient tool, slanted text, and different kinds of brush strokes. I want it to show, mainly, the ideas that the song Do You Realize?? display, "You relaize the sun doesn't go down, it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round". Playing off of that, I want to display the theme illusion.


Composition:
I put the arm so that it stretches out a bit more than half way through the page, and I tried to not keep one specific focal point, because the entire picture is important to understand my ideas. I decided that instead of just having the earth and the sun floating beside of each other, it would be cooler to include the earth into the illusion idea by having this arm holding it, kind of signally the earth's fragility compared to the sun.


Concept:
Like I already wrote, it is based on song lyrics and the idea that life is an illusion, as is death. In the second of the pictures, I started to add some words. The words around the sun say "The sun sets, but it never leaves". In a way, I imagined some religious superstitions with this, with the sun representative of a higher power, and the earth as the rest of life. This is probably my favorite piece so far.

Week 5

This week, my work will be based off of the song Do You Realize By The Flaming Lips. The illustration will attempt to capture the lines  "You realize the sun doesn't go down, It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round". It will feature an outstretched arm holding onto a spinning earth with a large sun in the background. I am thinking of, if not for this week, for next week making the earth look as if the clouds are forming a skull to bring out the element of death that the song brings up. I am going to incorporate the word illusion into the illustration. The illusion is the message that I want to deliver, that many things are not really how they may appear.  

200 Lincolns

Week 4

Craft: How did you do it? I used Illustrator, and on it the pencil, blob, and pen tools.

How did you improve it? His tatoo and chair look a lot more real, and his drum looks better too.

Composition: Why this photo? I liked that I could play with more than just Lincoln's face.

Why these colors?
I wanted to go with a pop color scheme, so I used reds, blues, and purples.

Concept: Where or when should Lincoln go by next week?
I don't know...He could go to woodstock :)

Week 3

Craft:
How did you do it?
I used Illustrator, and on it the pencil, blob, and pen tools. I used various color schemes.

How did you improve it?
It is a lot more pulled together. there are less random lines.

Composition:
Why this photo? I liked that I could play with more than just Lincoln's face.

Why these colors?

For the rocker lincoln, I used red for his jacket, because i wanted a color that would really POP!

the blue period lincoln displays his gloominess in a more dramatic way.

Why did you arrange the page the way you did?
I thought all of the colors looked cool.

Concept:
Where or when should Lincoln go by next week? I want him to be a total rocker.

**The images look different than how they uploaded...their colors are distorted