week 11

craft: for this craft on the second spread, I did basically the same thing as the first one, except made every other picture bigger or smaller.

concept: the concept for this spread is to keep the same pattern or similar as the first one, and keep the composition clean.

composition: for this composition, i want to keep it clean and simple, focusing the viewers eyes on the pictures and the most interesting parts of the pages by drawing their attention there.

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craft: For my craft on this series, I first had to draw the outlines of each shape with lines. It was tedious, but I tried making the shoe look as realistic as possible. I then went in and did the fill of each object, and made sure the colors looked good together as to draw the eye in. I did not draw the outside of the window at first, but later changed my logic to that.

After filling the objects, I used the gradient tools to make the object look more 3D. For the other illustrations in the series, they are not as realistic as the original blue shoe, but the general idea is presented to the audience on what the illustration is portraying. The lighting for these pictures also had to be correct to make sure that the image is realistic looking and could look 3 dimensional.

One important detail was the fact that after trying out the outside window as a solid color, it was definitely better to add the background to the illustration. Tracing the outside objects and fading them a bit and using the feather seemed to help the picture look accurate. It was very important to go through all these steps to get to the final piece because showing my improvements was helpful to show which illustration looked best.

concept: The concept of this series was somewhat murky at first, but after adding the outside backgrounds to the illustrations it became more clear for everyone viewing these pieces. The outside objects were important to these pieces because it brings the shoe and the atmosphere together into one idea. For the original piece, it was important to display the background as to make the shoe appear more realistic and almost humanized, looking out a window.

The other illustrations in this series also needed the window background to display the themes of each. For example, the pink shoe was placed in front of a window, looking out to a Macy's store, as to display a feminine feel and bring each object together to make one illustration. It was an important move to keep these pieces in context and connecting them all to each other.

compostion: The composition was an important deciding factor when figuring out which photo to use. The shoe at that angle and the viewpoint with the background information helped display a theme of personification of the shoe. It is very important to keep the compositional aspect in perspective when doing this series because it helps hold together all of your pieces perfectly. My series needed to have different background windows for each piece to display the message of each, because without switching around those backgrounds to fit the shoes, the series would not make sense.

week 10

craft: for the second draft of my spread, I plan on fixing up my negative space, and making the pictures more clean cut. I also think I should fix the title and make it more appealing at first glance.

concept: I think I am going to keep my layout clean and to the point, but adding just a little bit of pop to it so the readers stay focused.

composition: the composition is going to stay simple and hopefully that will keep people interested.

week 9

craft: For my first spread in InDesign, I just played around with the layout of my picture with the text to see what will be a good lay out and what will catch the reader's eye most, and i chose to put the pictures of my series in the middle and the text underneath.

concept: The concept for my spread is probably going to be just to try and get as much creativity involved and be able to get the point across about my illustration with the essay that I've written. I have chosen to do the pictures in the middle and text on the bottom to make the reader interested due to the pictures while at the same time making it easy to read the blog in columns.

composition: the composition is a combination of text with pictures, but also adding titles and things to make it more interesting and look like a sophisticated magazine.

week 8

craft: For this illustration, I decided to do a rough outline of the water bottle that I was referencing from. I used a thinner brush, and drew rough squiggles and lines to form the outside of the water bottle. I then did a horizon line to give the background some shape. After doing this, I chose a lighter blue color and began painting the background with a very large brush.

I decided that the blue that I chose was a nice contrast to the black bottle, and then decided to fill the bottom of the bottle with white polygons shapes. I felt these colors worked well together. I chose to put a fill in the bottom polygons with a black outline, while the shapes in the upper part of the bottle are just outlined in white to show the differences in volumes. Instead of doing just complimentary colors for my series, I decided to just do any type of colors, as to broaden my range for the color section.

The outlined and filled shapes in the bottom of the bottle give the bottle a more voluminous feel, and keeps the illustration's message clear, that this is in fact a bottle with some form of liquid. The shapes are all various sizes, and have no pattern or specific size requirements, they are all randomly put there to give the bottle a sharp yet free look. The lines also do not have any specific direction or shape, they were made to look free and messy to contrast the very defined shapes inside the bottle. This is my favorite piece because of the color combinations and freeness of the pen drawing.

concept: The concept behind this piece goes along with the title I chose for my style, which is 'framed mass'. I think that this displays the style well, because of the way the shapes are framed by the black pen, even if the marks are uneven and messy. I did not intentionally make this my style, but eventually as I continued to do the illustrations, the pattern was obvious in the pictures that I made. It is obvious that in this piece and in the rest of the series, that the water bottle is outlined in some sort of way, and there is some kind of volume in every piece.

The concept of the shapes and the lines both being in each piece was to display a flexibility in the make of the illustrations. It allowed me to be free with the way I would paint the illustration, while at the same time leave a common theme within each piece. Also the way the lines in this piece are not stiff helps this piece stray away from reality and allows me to be more creative in the way i constructed these pieces.

composition: At first doing the illustrations, I was being very loose with my compositions. However, as I continued, my compositions became more similar. All of the pieces are generally in the same place of the page, and about the same size. Most of them have different brush styles, but you should be able to tell that each illustration is of the same object. All of the illustrations are rough while at the same time very sharp because of the contrasting shapes with the brush strokes.

In these illustrations, the color is essential to each of them. Starting off just using complimentary colors, I changed that by using any color that worked well with the composition of the bottle. Making them contrast was important and would make it easier to catch someone's eye. I also thought that the rough pen marks with the straightness of the shapes would bring an interesting affect to the composition.

I used the filled shapes at the bottom of each bottle to show volume and make the illustration look somewhat realistic in that sense. I wanted to show the differences from the middle of the bottle, where the shapes were just outlined, and the bottom, where the liquid would be in real life, and fill it. Each composition also has a horizon line or a shadow to give the picture more shape and fill.