Saturday, April 25, 2009

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

one more just because i was bored


hehe i made one more entirely in illustrator to be sure i fulfilled every single requirement

word visualization

When I went onto the dictionary to look up words, I liked what I saw with 'torrid' because it means hot and dry, which i felt I could really emphasize through my art. I chose to make it look burned and crispy looking, and squished in to show how hot and dry it is! I did the coloring and erasing in Photoshop, then moved it to Illustrator to make the motions.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Concepts for Book

When looking through the provided resources, I decided I really liked the index card book. I'd love to do it so that the cards are horizontal but hanging vertically, so the pages go downward.

My poem offers me a lot of creative license, and I have a visual concept that would look perfect. I just need to pray my skills will make it look as amazing as it is in my head!

My idea is to make the background a textured light gray- almost "dreary" looking. The objects in it would be with abstract and artistic angles, and conceptual to the line of the poem they convey. I want to make it look like a textile vector, if that makes any sense. Almost cartoonish (vector) but elegant and simplistic (like a textile). I want it to look as if they are handmade and then scanned, instead of all on photoshop. I also want the objects to look "stiched" on.

For the type, I feel that a typewriter style would be perfect.

Enchantment and alchemic

To all of you who have along the way
Pulled stars from the sky
And placed them onto the blue canvas
Of oiled frenzied fragments
That is my heart
Over the years contented/discontented
As in what it is to know
Each other -
Thoughtfully / openly/ through a distance
In ash, fog and things of light
Night / and along the scalloped edge of
The
darkest missing parts
In wind / wideness and wonder
Over the unfolded and closed
What is perhaps or never shall

Enchantment and alchemic
Poised / perilous /
poetry

I take these glittering
Great colors -

The panoramic moons

Dorothy D Mienko



I chose this poem because I feel it is beautifully written and produces powerful imagery that I can create in my book. It is long enough to convey a powerful message without any redundancy.