In this PSA, I expressed a message I believe in, to Put others before yourself. Upon working on this PSA assignment, I instantly knew I wanted to spread this message because it is something I see in my community. I have always believed in putting others before yourself. In this PSA, I drew two hands facing each other, one surrounded with bubbles with the words, Help!, Hungry!, Needy! and more. On the other hand, I represented that person to be thinking by drawing a thinking bubble over the hand, with a new computer, a new house, and money inside of the bubble. In the center of the PSA, the words Put Others Before Yourself are capitalized and display the message. I used the color scheme of Dominant #DB252F (Red), #573F4B (Purple), #F08C7F (Pink), #DB9179 (Pink), #FAB991 (Orange), to create my illustration. I used these warm colors to match my hands, a light brown/orange color.
I began by photographing my hands and importing them into Illustrator. I used the image trace tool to draw hands, the house, and the computer, and took pictures of the money (again using the image trace function to create a photograph). Lastly, I wrote text in the center to display my message, and after creating outlines for the text I was able to put a white to gray gradient on the font. This PSA helped me discover how I could express my thoughts in art and how I can use Illustrator in the future to design and create more powerful PSAs.
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