Music Logos are Due!

We are working on band logo. You are to create an original approach to your selected musical artist's logo. Remember simple is key, but still must reflect their personality. 

The Logo design... is due December 17th.

We should be able to tell the style of music from the logo.

The logo should be 5 by 7 inches.

Gig Poster...

Gig posters are not album covers. Theses are the posters that drive fans to concerts.

Gig posters should reflect the music they represent. Unlike album covers bands have control who does the gig posters. This is very important as gig posters are directly responsible for band's revenue streams. Concerts are how modern bands make money.

Usually, the artists are fans of the bands attempting not only to make a poster to promote the music they love, but also to create a collectable representation to inspire people to buy tickets. These posters are to influence people to listen to the band.

You should be able to tell the style of music from the poster.

These posters can be influenced by a song, but should represent more than just that song.

The posters should pop and be easy to read. 

These posters should have energy and excitement to reflect the mood and voice of the music and to entice potential ticket buyers.

The final Slide for the Exam...

Draw Batman

Draw the image above ...remember to build with shapes to get a more complex image. Fill in the dark areas, but leave all the folds white.

Exam Review

It's that time of year to see what we have learned so far...

The reason for tight sketches and character design studies...

Art is a process. By establishing good habits early we can develop good working habits that can yield outstanding results.  The design process is critical to what we do, and develops skill sets beneficial both in an outside of the classroom. 

Once we have our challenge we need to develop our solutions. We begin through using methods like thought trees, word associations, actor/stage/action, and other methods. After which we begin writing what we see to help compose our idea process that we will test in thumbnail sketches. These thumbnail drawings will evolve. 

After our thumbnail sketches we were to begin doing character studies.  One of our jobs on this project was to reimagine the characters in already successful book. We are to re-interpret the characters in a fresh new design. Character design is an evolution from concept to a more finished design.

Once our characters are developed we need to place them using the rule of thirds into our compositions. Thumbnails will help us test this. Once a quick thumbnail drawing looks like a good solution, we develop it further into a tight sketch will be our final blue print for our finished piece.

Tight sketch...

Finish... the quality isn't an accident. There was a process in creating it. 

The palette to success...

Children's Book illustration

Your final children's book is Due December 7th. 

Must demonstrate use of reference. 

All accessories and background should be referenced too.

Must Use the rule of thirds or have a valid reason for breaking them.

There must be a clearly defined horizon line.

There must be clear hierarchies. 

There must be a border.

Final image size 9 * 12 with a 1 inch border.

The image must be based upon text in the story and clearly illustrate the plot of story.

The character design must be original. 

If you use the same character design as the book or another found one on line you are clearly violating copyright. This is a violation of the law and will result in being Fired.