M4: Part 1 Preliminary Sketches

Inspiration:  Picture my husband took

Concept:  Illustrate a Sea Turtle that is signaling people to stop.  Keep the feeling of the ocean calm, yet busy with a lot of wildlife.  Coral, fish, sunlight rays shining through the top of the water. 

Adobe applications:  Photoshop and Illustrator for this project while learning more about digital painting on Lynda.com.

Target Audience:  Wildlife Preservationists, Environmentalist, Artists from around the world.

Sketches and Info.

Wildlife Artist of the Year 2019 

Illustrator Starting Point

Color Palette

M3 Concept Album Art

My Album is entitled In My Head.  I worked many hours on this in the past week trying many different things and getting lost in the joy of painting using Photoshop.  I received notice that Adobe updated their programs, so I started using the new Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign.  I struggled because my computer kept opening either the old or new programs and the differences in each made for a complicated process in working.

I worked mostly with Photoshop painting out my pictures, creating brushes and testing different blends.  I made 4 hair brushes to create the effect of real hair, I used eyelashes which I had to warp to fit my character's eyes, and I added texture to the rock on the back cover by using a texture stamp and adjusting brush settings.  I customized my desktop to fit my workflow and organized my growing supply of brushes.

I used this cover photo in Illustrator and gained experience with the pen tool and the black and white arrows to adjust lines.  In the end, though I didn't use anything in Illustrator in my final project.  I traced the edges of my dress and tried to use the pen tool to outline the shadowing of the arm of her outfit, and my layers shifted all over the place.  When I did line up everything correctly, I found that it looked too unnatural and I didn't like it after all.

With Indesign, I was able to wireframe out my layout for the CD booklet.  I used an Adobe font called Trojan Concept to make my letters seem embossed and gold.  I added all of my pictures to the boxes by using the "Place" command and lowered their opacity.  I made sure my text frames had no backgrounds so you would still see my artwork in the background.  I connected all of my textboxes by clicking the overflow link and dropping them into the next text box.

Overall, there were many things I struggled with in this project, but after pushing myself to get through the problems, I can now feel more confident in using these programs.  I had fun and some of the work I found that I lost track of time while working on them.

Cover

Pages 2 and 3

Pages 4 and 5





Pages 6 and 7

Back Cover 

Illustrator Attempt

M3 Concept Album

Preliminary Sketches

Sorry for getting this in so late, but I thought we had to put our preliminary work through Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.  I was trying to work through my design.  This is what I have come up with so far...

I ran this through Photoshop.

I ran this through Photoshop and started in Illustrator.

I definitely find that my second picture has more possibilities.  I can carry out the mountain background throughout the layout.  

Album Cover

Pages 2 and 3

Pages 4 and 5

Pages 6 and 7

Back Cover

Album Art

Duets by Tony Bennett

 Album Cover

Booklet Centerfold

This album's cover design is a mosaic of Tony Bennet's face made up of small circle pictures of the artists he sang duets with.  I find this a genius tie-in to the title of the album. 

Chopin and Champagne by Various Artists

Album Cover

Album 

Chopin is timeless but as I was going through our libraries collection of classical music this cover stood out.  Its romantic theme is brought out in the artwork found on the cover, its many uses of color and french impressions give you a sense of Chopin himself living in Paris.

This Side by NickelCreek

Album Cover

Album Back

The beautiful and straightforward cover depicts a young girl covering her mouth with an embarrassed look on her face.  The bright colors and storybook feel gives the feeling of a young band exploring more adult content in their music.

Hudson Valley Inn Final

Logos:

I have created a logo theme using the same font and color scheme to have a consistent feel.  The hotel logo has a scene of the mountains without locking the 3-week leaf peaking time-frame into the business branding.  Jacques carries on the color and font theme keeping the upscale feel without making the logo feel cheapened by too many illustrations.  The bar logo has barware

creating the letter A in its white space.





Business Cards

I again kept the same color theme and carried it into the color blocks in the information sections of the business card.

M2 CP Preliminary Work for Main Project

I found this very challenging because having a foliage theme doesn't seem to be a representation of what the business would be all year long.  I can understand using foliage for a seasonal marketing campaign, but for a logo that is supposed to represent a company year-round, having an image of a 3 week time period doesn't seem to be efficient.  Having the company name inside one of the leaves or on the path seemed to carry out the foliage theme without it being too stylized.  Most upscale hotels and inns keep their logo professional and straightforward.

For the bar, I chose to use an illustration of the word ba with a pilsner beer glass and a martini glass clinking for the letter A.  I felt it would be abstract by using the whitespace to form the letter A.

Finally, I researched the area to find which type of restaurant would be unique. A French restaurant seemed to be missing from the choices that I saw, so I named the restaurant "Jacques."  Having an illustrated title would make the bar seem less upscale, so I kept the logo simple with the names in tall, thin letters with an ellipse around the base to symbolize it is on a tray.