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.

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.

Concept for Project

I have a lot of ideas for this project, all of which stand a good chance of being done for the final.

One of my ideas for this coming project is to take a silhouette of my body and fill up the inside with photographs that make my life. I have a ridiculous amount of photos on my computer so it would not be hard at all. I also think it'd be cool to print it out lifesize- and I'm not that tall so it wouldn't be too difficult! It would be a collage that made up me.

Another cool idea I had is to create a corkboard and design a bunch of things that are important to me on it. After all, one's desk is one of their most personal spaces, especially when you live in a college dorm. I could have 3 facets to the corkboard or to the image as a whole. Maybe it could be split to the shelves, the corkboard and the desk, horizontally.

I think that'd be cool.

Another concept I had was to do a 3 panel image with my and my boyfriend in the center- he's probably one of the most important things in my life. Than have another panel with my friends and another with my family.  The photography would look professional and flow together. I have a cool border idea to add around it and fill it with textures and lyrics around it.

Photoshop Image

Sherman, Xuiwin, and Kahlo

Frida Kahlo's artwork is one that deeply expresses the course of her life events. She had a lot of bad things happen to her, and this is reflected in her artwork. I enjoyed this because it was real and full of emotion and passion. Her themes and messages are very touching and hit to each of our persons- after all, who among us can't identify with pain? Because her art is mostly self portraits, there's a very genuine and connectability in her work. Some of her work is very graphic, such as the paintings with her insides torn out or her representations of losing a baby. Some were very, very shocking.

Cui Xuiwin takes the concept of self portraits, but expresses herself in a new way. Her imagery is often sexual and pushing the limits. I really liked her use of multiple people, because the repetition keeps your eyes on the image, studying the subtle changes from position to position. Her work has dark undertones, but is juxtaposed by the delicate nature of her subjects. The pale skin and white dress give a feeling of fragility.

Cindy Sherman is an awesome photographer. She has really cool stuff. She is mostly at the center of it, and she portrays women as strong and in control. I love her dramatic angles and contrasts and makeup and poses. I find her artwork so intriguing. I really liked her Fairy Tale set because they were not-so-happy-endings. She had an intriguing message in each one. I thought it was very strong.