E-Card Sketches ~ Conserving Energy



Beginning Ideas for E-Card sketches ~ conserving energy

 

Looking at this more, this sketch almost makes me feel like it is saying flip the switch on...anyone else?

 

For this project I wanted to try new techniques as seen in the videos for class.  Some new things I tried were digital painting, using the brush, switching between colors, moving layers from front to back of one design, and moving projects between the different programs in CS6.    I also downloaded new fonts that reminded me of the era the artist was from.

My original idea for this included a gravestone.  While researching the artist more, I found that her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.  So I opted to incorporate her nickname “pearl” in the bottom left corner of the blue colors that to me symbolized water, and the color black for death.  I tried to change the concept to fit the artist’s life.    

Art work references

Fonts from: http://www.fontspace.com/category/1960s

Base idea for dove design: www.Fatimalammar.blogspot.com

Book Cover Project

 

I decided to make a book cover for Janis Joplin who was one of the leading musicians in the folk music movement (http://www.biography.com/people/janis-joplin-9357941).  She grew up in church, was the oldest of three children, and never seem to find her place in life.  Until I researched what she was about, I had never heard her music.  I actually really liked a few of her songs such as Me & Bobby McGee, Cry Baby and Piece of my Heart.  I also didn't know she died two and a half weeks after Jimi Hendrix  (knew he was from that time period, but had not heard his music either).  

 

Janis Joplin made it seem, through different interviews I watched, that her songs were an emotional release for her and a way to connect with other people.  She was her own person, who had difficulty dealing with life and her emotions, eventually dying of a heroin overdose.  I tried to incorporate her musical career with either a symbol of the times such as the orange glasses she was often seen in, the heart to show her feelings, or drugs she used.  On the spine of the second cover idea I used the syringe as part of the microphone. 

 

The more I look at these ideas I kind of like the picture showing the falling music notes into the tombstone.  The bird flying up from the grass, to me, was like the freeing of her spirit.  I tend to prefer the simple look, as in the examples for the animal farm book cover ideas, but I kind of really like the falling notes idea even though it is busier.