Today, I decided to get back to the basics, as I feel it is very easy to think you already have these basics mastered. So I set about constructing an elementary design course from various sources. Starting with Jonanthon Itten’s ‘Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus and Later’ along with Ellen Luptons ‘Graphic Design: The New Basics’, I set out trying to explore the idea of the point in space. Both books talk about the importance of this seemingly obvious element. Here are some visuals I came up with while exploring the idea of the point. As is pointed out within their books, a point is not necessarily a round dot, it can be a square or a droplet shape, as in the example below. I do feel I learned from this exercise and I will continue doing a few more of these later this evening, I also learned a little bit more about the use of illustrator. The next exercise will be on line.
Here is the final version of the illustration, number 4. I decided to keep a lot of the energy and lines in this piece to reflect the energy of wasps. The image itself is the two women from the article, as wasps, eating masses of jam on its own.
Two old-women wasps eating at a table out of giant jars of jam
Originally I only posted the image above, but based on my feedback stating that I only posted one concept, I decided to post some of the other sketches (see below). I also have provided brief descriptions incase they are too rough.
Two wasps eating jam outside of cafe
Wasp eating jam on table
Wasp eating jam from table
Old woman showing jar of jam to wasp waitress, asking to be opened.
So here is the final for part 3 of editorial illustration. I feel this piece almost works, but maybe I wont ever board on the cracked effects.
Here is the rough for the third editorial piece, in the final piece the robots at the stage edge will be recognisable characters like C3P0 and Short Circuit
So here it is, the final piece, I dont like it nearly as much as the last one, but I was also trying to not spend over 10 hours on it this time also. I think it still feels a little flat, but its okay.
