'1984' by George Orwell

Here we go again. I did this same project in Visual Communications II. You would think I would want to choose a new book....NOPE NOT ME! I love '1984' so much I'm going to do it again! Here are some sketches I forgot to post.

I decided to go with the image of a bunch of TV's plugging into a person brain! I'm going to work on my color pallet so it's not quite so green. I might also play with placing an eyeball in each TV screen to add the intensity of being 'WATCHED'! I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with the background. I was thinking it would just be a solid color but maybe I will do some type of grid to enforce the electronic side. I could also maybe do a faint grid over the top of the illustration. Give me your thoughts please?

BAD AIRBRUSH!

EARTH

The planet was pretty much free-hand. After the fact I find out that it is helpful to use white guache! WHAT! This would have made my life much much easier. With planet Earth I could have airbrushed everything and then went back in with white guache and got a better swirling cloud effect!

KIWI

This just didn't work out for me! I have a hard time visualizing how to create the mask in what order. Then I made the mistake of FREE HANDING! Novice airbrushers SHOULDN'T free hand! I REPEAT....DO NOT FREE HAND. I tried to go back in and freehand the seeds and also the fuzz of the kiwi skin. I couldn't get close to the image to airbrush small. It just kept spider webbing on me. AHH. Frustration.

Album Cover Artwork [marker comp]

We are designed the cover art for an LP (record), CD, and itunes thumbnail. I decided I wanted to do a cover for Ben Folds' album supersunnyspeedgraphic. It is a fun name so I though it would be great just to do a graphic design based on shapes and color washes. It will be primarily line art with color wash variations inside the shapes. Here is my first marker comp... I'm going to work on this more and try to get it LESS SYMMETRICAL! We all know I love symmetry!

CUBES...

We had to make cubes using masks that we cut out! This was really time consuming an the masks didn't last very long. We had to keep replying the mask, lining it up perfectly, and remove piece by piece. I was really impatient about letting the paint dry before I re-applied the masks. We had to do 10 cubes with masks so I should have made a new mask half-way through, but I didn't... The masks stopped sticking and got all gunked up with airbrush paint. The free hand cubes didn't turn out too bad! They were a lot easier than the freehand spheres! I was also devastated because I spilt a bunch of my green paint! SAD! Here are some of my airbrush exercises.

AIRBRUSH!

YAY! It's really fun to airbrush. It is just such a change from drawing or painting. Although it is hard to get the hang of. So far we have airbrushed circles! Sounds simple doesn't it? WRONG! We used circle templates to create some of them. That made things a little easier, but it takes awhile to figure out how to control the airbrush. We also did free-hand circles. BAD IDEA! I wouldn't call mine circles. They look like blurry donuts and bagels! Well we will just see where airbrushing takes me. Maybe I will be the next famous Carnival Airbrush Artist! HAHA! Something to strive for?

Dinosaur + Envelope + Pocket Watch [FINAL]

Here is my final version of my guache montage. I was pretty darn happy with how it turned out! It was a little frustrating at first, but I forget how long it takes to develop a guache. Lots of pushing around paint before it starts to come together. I think the composition and color choices were successful. I'm glad I really planned out the composition when thinking about what objects I wanted to combine. I think that helped in the effectiveness of the composition. My favorite part of the montage is probably the pocket watch. I really like how it stands out! Also, I incorporated the background color into the clock so that it would be cohesive throughout the piece. I think it's a fun montage.

Dinosaur + Envelope + Pocket Watch [TAKE TWO]

Here is my second marker composition for the guache montage. I finalized color choices and also make the pocket watch in the background larger in order to fill up more background space. Now it is time to actually start painting!