ART219 Illustration

A Pick from a Blog

Here is one illustration I found on Reina's blog. It was the previous 13 x 19 watercolor. It is a good example of line and color working in tandem. If you blog, I can go picking for the illustration blog. BLOG, BLOG, BLOG.

Mural Design

I know, this is an impulse project. But it is a good exerices in process and dealing with a specific visual problem.

Parameters for the initial design of the Mural:

• mural on the southern wall of the newly-renovated Ryle cafeteria - 52 x 8 ft.
• a design or ideas for a design that encompass campus/community/global diversity
• artists or other helpers interested in showcasing their work by tracing and then painting the design onto the wall

Now, as your "boss", "art director" and "creative director", I want something visually striking and not overly cliché-ish. Please, no globes, different colored hands linking together, etc... Please, don't make me puke. If you do use a cliché, it should be retasked and reinterpreted to be something new. Be creative in your initial concepts. Think of integrating type as a visual into this. Unless you intend to produce the mural yourself, keep in mind the imagery and how unskilled workers could accomplish the production. I have no visual preconceptions as to imagery or style. Sell me on what you want to do. This is a boiler-plate visual problem you will be expected to resolve when working as a designer.

Initial sketches (proportionally scaled - 52 x 8 ft.) on Weds.