Kaileen Glynn

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Inspiration for Final Project: Cartel de 2017 de las Festivales de la Primavera de Sevilla

2017 Festivals of Spring in Seville Poster

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Inspiration for Don Quixote Book Cover

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Penguin Classics Deluxe Book Jacket Cover

”Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes

Medium: Pen and ink, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Indesign

I chose to re-design the book cover for Don Quixote because I saw it as an excellent opportunity to incorporate both my graphic design and spanish majors into my illustration. I used pen and ink in order to play with the shadows of each character and structure on the cover. There is a scene in the book where Don Quixote tells his companion Sancho that he is going to fight a bunch of giants, and Sancho informs him that they are just windmills. The windmill is an iconic image to be placed along with Don Quixote on the cover, so I wanted to take a different approach. Instead, the shadow of the windmill appears to be a monstrous looking being and Don Quixote’s horse is looking back at him like he’s crazy for wanting to move forward. However, when you turn to the back cover, the source of the shadow is just a normal windmill. On the far left jacket cover, Sancho is waiting for Don Quixote to move on and realize that the windmill is not a giant monster. On the right jacket cover, there is a stack of some of the many novels that Don Quixote loves to read where he was inspired to go on adventures.

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Archie McPhee:

Dive Fun Pool Buddies

Media: Colored Pencils and Gouache

Our class was given the assignment to re-design a dollar store/Archie Mcphee toy product. I chose to re-design the Dive Fun Pool Buddies because the original packaging felt kind of crammed with the font and the images were pixelated. To change it up, I decided to take the most exciting part of the original packaging, the wave, and make that the main design element and have it lead the eye around and down to the toy itself. The packaging I designed also has a unique shape to it.

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The original story of Ratón Pérez-

In 1894, Luis Coloma was contracted to write a story for Alfonso XIII, who had just lost his tooth at the age of 8. Ratoncito Pérez lives inside of a box of cookies in Madrid and collects the teeth of children at night.

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Harper Collins Publisher:

“Ratón Pérez” (Pérez the Mouse) 12x20

Media: Gouache, Colored Pencils and Sharpie Pen

Copyright: Kaileen Glynn 2016

As a Spanish and Graphic Design major, I wanted to find some way to incorporate both things that I enjoy doing. I decided to create a 2 page spread of the Spanish fairy tale of Ratón Pérez because it is about the equivalent to the idea of the tooth fairy. 

Here is the translation of this page:

The King had heard talk about Perez the Mouse, a rodent that comes and collects the teeth of children at night and leaves them a small gift, such as a coin or something similar. This is provided that the children are taking care of their teeth and brushing three times a day, especially if they have eaten sweets. The King sent everyone home because he wanted to go to sleep.

He retired to his chambers, brushed his teeth well and got into bed to wait. He put under his pillow the tooth that he had lost. He had a ragged and sleepy smile on his face.

–Tonight I am not going to sleep, I want to meet Perez.

He rehearsed again and again what he was going to tell him, but of course things happen and the little mouse was running late and the King…he fell asleep curled up on his bed.

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These are my beginning sketches for Emmy & Max. I got my inspiration from comics that show animals doing things that get their owners angry, like in Garfield. In my comic strip I created, it shows Max eating Emmy’s cereal when she is out of the room. The viewer doesn’t see the effect of Emmy’s anger at Max, but in the last square we can see one of Max’s hairs in her spoonful of cereal. So one can imagine what the outcome of that will be.

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Progress of work on Project 4: Comic strip

• Title: Emmy & Max

• 15x20″ 

• non-photo blue pencil, india ink

• Took me 1 week to finish it

Copyright Kaileen Glynn, 2016

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Progress of work on Project 3: The New Yorker Magazine Cover for Illustration class

• Issue depicted: I chose to portray the loss of freedom of movement. Due to Europe’s migration crisis currently, some nations have started to put up walls on the borders and Europeans are slowly beginning to lose their freedom of movement. I decided to bring this idea of having checkpoints at borders to New York. In the cover I designed, there is a man from New Jersey that is trying to enter New York through the Lincoln tunnel, however, he has been stopped by the NYPD and a military guard.

Some example covers that I used for my inspiration were about the issues of terrorism, guns, border crossing, and one about the Holland tunnel to New Jersey.

• 11x14″ paper- 9x11″ cover

• gouache, black flair pen, colored pencil

• Took me 1 week to finish it

Copyright Kaileen Glynn, 2016

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Progress of work on Project 2: Mad Magazine Caricature for Illustration class

• Person: Bob Ross

• 11x14″ paper

• water colored pencil

• Took me 1 week to finish it

Copyright Kaileen Glynn, 2016

He was best known as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS. He is most famous for his quick and simple brush strokes that come out to be amazing masterpieces. Some of his most famous lines are “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents” and “Let’s make some happy little trees”.

This was my first time using water colored pencil, and I pasted an image of one of his paintings.

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Progress of work on Project 1: Product Image for Illustration class

• Product: Swedish fish

• 11x14″ paper

• Gouache paint and colored pencil

• Took me 1 week to finish it

Copyright Kaileen Glynn, 2016

The first three images are some of the advertising ads for Swedish fish. The campaign for Swedish fish is called “A friend you can eat” and the ads play with different animals or people being made into food, such as a grilled teddy bear and a kitten sandwich. I decided to take a more playful approach in my product design because the product of the fish themselves are very plain. I originally planned on doing a realistic approach with a few fish pouring out of the box, but then I saw the water splash on the box and I imagined them swimming out of the box and becoming animated. I feel that my animated approach could fit into an advertising campaign for Swedish Fish because they target audiences of all ages, especially college students with the “A friend you can eat campaign” because of t-shirts and such, and since the candy has been around a long time, older generations love it as well. I feel that this cartoon of the Swedish Fish appeals to younger audiences, but it can also be appreciated by people of all ages. 

This was my first time experimenting with Gouache, but it wasn’t my first time painting. I decided Gouache would look nice because it would give the box and the water a glossy effect and make the piece brighter.