Tuesday, October 14, 2008

4th set

same guidelines as before, only throw in some text and another color if we want. Apparently i didn't listen too well though, the text was supposed to be abstract. Minus that fact, i wanted to expand a little more on the ideas that i had from the previous compositions. I really liked the the composition i did the week before with the explosion coming out of the head, and i wanted to see it feel more refined, fixing some of the issues i had with the paint from the time before. I really like how it turned out when i spent a lot more time on it, incorporating more detail. To incorporate text i treated it somewhat of a comic illustration, which i liked, maybe needs more emphasis on the actual text box, but that can be resolved if a final design is done with it. The second composition i wanted to play around with my pigs some more, they've been pretty fun to work with, and i wanted to make something a little crazier with them. With the election coming up i've been paying a lot of attention to the designs for campaign posters and have decided that i really don't like any of them for the most part. It reminded me how much i like propaganda posters throughout the years, and i wanted to play around somewhat with the two ideas. I pulled the quote of a book by Robert Anton Wilson, and felt that it worked pretty well with the imagery, he incorporates a lot of bogus fanatical movements and political activists in his novels which i find pretty funny. I played around with this idea a little more in my third design, which i did on illustrator. The lettuce image is a design i'm working on for some kids i know in mexico. I was a volunteer english teacher down there last year and really enjoyed working with them. I'm working with the owner of the restaurant they work at to design a t-shirt to sell there and use the money so that they can continue to take english lessons. The design won't incorporate the text that i used in this design, once again i wanted a little comic relief with the design and pulled part of the text out of the same book. I liked how the ché lettuce turned out.

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