Design: Aboriginal Art
For this project, we were instructed to create an aboriginal piece using our spirit animals and astrology symbols. Part of my culture comes from the Arizona red rocks. Every year since I was born, my large extended family gets together, accumulating in Sedona. The color scheme used in this interesting town is exclusively muted reds and oranges, with turquoise highlights everywhere. I wanted to replicate this in my aboriginal art because it represents me well. My spirit animal is a gazelle, which I used to symbolize my long legged spirit. As a libra, I included my astrological symbol in the eyes as well as around the background. My constellation is illustrated both in the gazelle itself and behind it, acting like a frame for the creature. I am quite surprised at my own perseverance throughout this project, considering how tedious it was, but I really enjoyed it. Using Adobe Photoshop was awesome, and I didn’t have any problems with the program itself. I created small dots using the brush tool in various sizes and colors. Anyhow, if I were to do it over again, I would choose another method in which I place the aboriginal symbols I chose which were human tracks. I think I should have incorporated them into the background of the painting, creating more depth to the piece. Throughout this project, I’ve really fallen in love with the style of the piece; it feels very me.
Design: PSA POster
I’ve experienced loss through a car crash that changed the entirety of my life’s course, and to ensure a decline in the number of people who will endure the same loss, I created a PSA poster addressing the repercussions of reckless driving. The public service announcement, in the form of a large poster, has “reckless driving is not flipping cool.” written in huge, bold lettering. Illustrated in a childlike brush, messy blue and gray lines form a large blue buggy, pictured flipping in mid-air. The PSA turns graphic when your eyes are drawn to the front passenger of the car, flung halfway out the vehicle’s hood. The vision of the man’s legs dangling from the car matches the same messy brush stroke used for the car, as well as the text lettering at the top of the page.
DEsign: collage
I hope that the graphic components of the poster make the viewer slightly uncomfortable for the simple purpose of remembering the piece whenever driving. Simplistic, yet busy, this PSA grabs the viewers attention with a red, orange, yellow, and cobalt blue color scheme. Using Adobe Illustrator, I used a sketch looking brush tool and drew up the car using a large block of color and hundreds of tiny brush strokes. The cars headlights were the most difficult task to complete, as they needed so many filters in order to make it fade into the background and overlap each other for a realistic look.