Drawing Visualization - Studio Work

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Unit 3 Assignment 3 - CD Cover (Beethoven: 9 Symphonies - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique / Gardiner)

Unit 3 Assignment 3 – Rationale

For my CD Cover assignment, I chose John Eliot Gardiner’s renditions of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9 symphonies. Throughout the CD Cover design, I wanted to emulate the dramatic atmosphere that can be heard within Beethoven’s symphonies. I incorporated high contrast and high levels of shadows, dark yet bold colours that contrasted the Romantic era and bold letters on the front cover that emulated his dramatic music.

My portrait of Beethoven can be seen on the front and the back of the CD design, where on the front, Beethoven’s angular and fierce expression is visible through the “rip” of the CD cover, and on the back the same portrait, just more full, is visible along the side. I wanted to have my portrait of Beethoven interpret his fierceness and serious expressions that he is typically seen as in his own portraits, except I didn’t want to use the typical portrait of Beethoven that was commonly found on other CD covers. Instead, I used the illustration of Beethoven from A Clockwork Orange as inspiration for my own portrait, as I found it highly interpreted his seriousness and almost angry expression the most, which further emulated the drama of Beethoven and his music. Using charcoal, I interpreted Beethoven’s intense portrait, with high shadow and high contrast, then scanned the portrait onto Photoshop, where further altering pursued, not much, but a few alterations were made for it to fit the CD cover design.

With the use of dark red and yellow, stock photos of old music sheets, fancier text along the side, the back and a little on the front of the CD cover, and a wrinkled paper sort of texture throughout the CD cover design, I felt I succeeded in emulating the Romantic era where Beethoven’s music is from essentially. I also felt I strongly represented the drama and expressive nature of the Romantic Era through these specific elements.

I would have to say that the strongest selling point of my CD cover is the drama of it, as I’ve mentioned before. The high contrasts, dark shadows, dark yet vibrant colours and the expressive portrait of Beethoven all, I feel, strongly interpret the Romantic era as well as the very nature of Beethoven’s music to be overall, very dramatic. 

Unit 2 Assignment 2: Graphic Novel Storyboard

Graphic Novel Storyboard - Final Copy

 Rough Sketches - Character Interpretations

Henry VIII

Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon

King Henry VIII

King Henry VIII

Catherine - Silhouette

Catherine of Aragon

Anne Boleyn

Catherine of Aragon

Storyboard Roughs

Still Life - Model (Week 8)

Pose 1

Pose 2

Photoshop Post-Production / Photo Shoot

Original Still Life Photo - Flower Bouquet

                                  

Day (Left) and Night (Right) Variations

Recolourized Variation

Cool Foreground on Warm Background

Complimentary Colours Variation (Orange Foreground on Blue Background)

Linear Perspective Still Life Assignment

Still Life - Photograph

Still Life Linear Perspective Drawing

3 Best Still Life Drawings

Week 1 - Geometric Still Life Drawing

Week 2 - Still Life Drawing

Week 3 - Line of Action Still Life Drawing

Unit 1 Assignment 1 - "Freak Show" Energy Drink Commercial Storyboard

First page: Panels 1, 2 and 3

Second page: Panels 4, 5, 6 and 7

Third page: Panels 8, 9 and 10

Last page: Panels 11 and 12

Unit 1 Assignment 1 Original Brand and Character - "Freak Show" Energy Drink featuring Harlequin Mascot

Harlequin Character - First Interpretation

Harlequin Body Action Planning

"Freak Show" Energy - Advertisement Planning

Harlequin - Final Interpretation

"Freak Show" - Final Advertisement

Unit 1 Assignment 1 - Rationale 

For this assignment, I created and designed and advertisement for my original brand of an energy drink called “Freak Show” which takes after the theme of carnivals. This product is suitable for all ages, but is mainly targeted at a younger audience such as teens and young adults. The idea of “Freak Show” is that the energy drink is successful at revitalizing and refreshing the mind during times of fatigue and drowsiness. The product relates the energy given to the consumer to that of a carnival performer who embarks on life-risking tricks such as acrobatics and trapeze. The character developed for “Freak Show” is a harlequin/ circus performer, which gives the energy drink a sex appeal as well as further enhancing the carnival theme and energy of the product. “Freak Show” aims at younger audiences, mainly adolescents or young adults, who partake in exhausting everyday activities or responsibilities such as sports or work. By giving this product a carnival theme and a circus performing character, the product achieves at convincing the consumers of its success at temporarily restoring mental alertness.