Artists just want to have fun

Age 21. Studio Art Major. Part time student. Full time artist. This is my blog for school.

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Book Cover Final and Reflection

Here I have the final design I chose to submit for consideration for the cover of the El Camino Creative journal Myriad 2018. The idea behind my concept was that each raindrop represents an individual and that the individuals come together to make something bigger than themselves as they do with the Myriad. I wanted strongly to represent the individuals who submit their work into the journal. I believe that I successfully did that however, I do understand that rainbow coloring can be associated with the LGBTQ+ Community so my color choice may not have been the best. My original design also included the back cover with an inverted color scheme and I later decided to make that the front cover for preference of its color choice.

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Book Cover Progress

Here are some screenshots of my work in progress and some variations of my work as I continued to develop my ideas more. 

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Book Cover Thumbnails

Here are a couple different ideas I had with similar concepts behind them. Some were simple designs based on making this look like a journal or sketchbook that a creative type may carry around while others were following the same theme of trying to represent the “many” that come together to make the Myriad book.

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Book Cover Research

For this research I decided to keep it simple and so a swipe of book covers I like. I noticed one thing that many have in common is their sans seriff type fonts on top of some kind of cool intricate pattern or design.

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Final and Reflection

In the end I really liked how my prints came out. I loved the contrasting colors and I think the colors I chose really express well what screenprinting can acomplish. The colors I chose of neon orange and a shiny silver could not be easily reproduced with regular printing methods. This project has definitely piqued my interest in the subject and I will definitely try some more screenprinting art in the future. 

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Screen Print Work In Progress

After deciding on my idea, here is some progress with the original sketch and the illustrator document that has the digital rendition of the print file. 

Lastly there is the final version with the halftone gradient in order to fulfill the requirement to have a halftone. Although the character is wearing a more solid looking armor the gradient makes it look similar to chainmail which is why I chose to do the gradient there. 

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Book Cover  Brainstorm

This is my concept map for the book cover to get my first couple thoughts out on paper. 

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Screen Print Thumbnails

Here were some ideas I had originally when I first started thinking about the project and what i might want to do.

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Screen Print Research (continued)

Next I have some images that inspire me for the screen print itself according to my aesthetic preferences.  

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Screen Print Research

The first images are ideas i had in mind for my Screen print project. 

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Screenprint Assignment Brainstorm

For the second project I made a list to brainstorm 

What relates to science fiction?

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fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.

What do I like that relates to science fiction?

Movies:

A girl who leapt through time

Summer Wars

Castle In The Sky

Digimon

The Iron Giant

Dr. Horrible

Pacific Rim

Back to the Future

Guardians of the Galaxy

Men in Black

Jurassic Park

Books:

1984

The Hunger Games

Brave New World

The Handmaid’s Tale

A Wrinkle In Time

TMOS

Deadman Wonderland

All You Need Is Kill

Shows:

No. 6

Fullmetal Alchemist

Gurren Lagann

Gundam Seed

G Gundam

Darker Than Black

Kagerou Project

Psycho-Pass

Space Dandy

RWBY

One Punchman

Bobobo-bo-bobobo

Guilty Crown

Srgt. Frog

Macross Frontier

Chobits

Tokyo Mew Mew

Sword Art Online

Angelic Layers

Megaman

Samurai Jack

Voltron

Code Lyoko

Rick and Morty

The 100

The Walking Dead

Video Games:

Persona

.hack

Steins; Gate

Overwatch

Danganronpa

TWGOK

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FINAL AND REFLECTION

These were my final two flier designs. Although the second was my preferred design because it seemed very different from what everyone else did, I worked harder on the first one so I only turned that one in officially to be considered. I hope to next time work just as hard on my designs if I have multiple. 

In the first flier I wanted a sense of balance which is why I added the submission deadline into the black curve on the bottom to try and match with the top. This is why I also have three separate bodies of text on the top and bottom as well. I was told that the submission did not fit in matching with the top so, if I want to prioritize balance I’ll try harder next time to make sure it seems natural that, that’s what I’m trying to accomplish. I also only used two fonts, one with variations but next time I need to work on a better sizing to create a better hierarchy. I do feel that I was successful at least in having an interesting contrast which was the draw to my flier. 

For the second flier, this is my idea of the kind of flier I would make for my personal use if I were to make a flier. I wanted to include a comic with a cute mascot type thing and I chose a cat, because there are so many cats wandering the campus so I’ve nicknamed it El Catmino. To start off, because it was meant to be a comic the bottom picture was meant to be framed and therefore not completed. I’m not very familiar with different fonts therefore I don’t take many risks with font types so I pick very standard sans serif fonts. I also didn’t print this out and look at it and assumed because it’s legible on the computer it would be legible as a flier so that’s something I need to consider a little more. Lastly, I have the same issue with hierarchy in this where my body text are all in similar size and weights so they don’t stand out from each other. 

Overall this assignment was very useful in my designer career. I realize I have a lot more to learn and I made similar mistakes in both my fliers however, it is helpful to realize to improve on my work for next time.  

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Here is some progress of my two fliers. The first was a last minute idea I starting working on and the second was the original idea I had in mind for my flier.

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Here are some of my thumbnails for the poster. The top was the main one but I ended up making a second one based on the bottom left. 

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Here is some of my research. The first thing I did was look online for simple yet effective fliers. The second thing I did was walk around and look at regular everyday fliers and watch to see what kind people actually stopped to look at. 

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Concept maps of my way of brainstorming some early ideas. Here is my early thoughts for the Myriad flier project.

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