Satirical Illustration

These are 3  Satirical Illustration that I have chosen and the message I get from this illustration is that it is the innocent who are harmed in a war fought by adults. It also seems like they might be the only ones that can change things because of their innocence.

There is now a generation of people who are constantly taking selfies of themselves. The captor hiding his face the hostage smiling with his pearly whites even though he has a knife to his neck.

The officer in this illustration has the all the protection from the capitol in the background, his badge, his car door and his gun. Whereas the young man only has his baseball bat.

Editorial Illustration

In the article Eyes Wide Shut there is a word, "complicit" which means to be involved with others in an activity that is unlawful or morally wrong. This story highlights how although the New Zealand Defence Force is proud of their track record in Afghanistan our political and military leaders would rather not have this story told.

With this in mind this is my reason for the illustration that I came up with. In the background I wanted to use words that seemed to recur in the article I think I would’ve liked the opacity of the words to be lighter so you can only just make them out but they still have relevance.

One of the reasons I used the the female figure is because I’m a Parent and one of the youngest victims a 6 year old girl was found by her Father. As a Mother I can sympathise these women are waiting for the return of their husbands, sons and children.

I choose to use the New Zealand Flag as a blindfold because of our involvement, maybe it is all of us who are blind and have our eyes wide shut when our own defence force is trying to keep their involvement under wraps?

Guilty, human rights, degrading blood, flexi-cuffed, innocent are just some of the words I choose from the article and used in my background design. This image also needed to be scanned to my email so I could work on it further if needed. 

I was wanting to add words from the article and use it as the background. I also wanted to change the opacity down so the words are barely visible.
I ended up writing the words on a separate piece of paper with vivid the using the light box I copied the text straight onto a copy of my illustration.

No Doubt

Rock Steady Album Cover

Lyle suggested that I use text like this as it won't detract from my illustration.

I would like to credit Jason for helping me with the skin tone and shadows on the face I deleted the layer but I know I should've kept this as an experiment. I'm also realising the importance of the layers as it's been a hard for me to get my head around but it's helpful if you need to fix anything or add a detail later.

I'm not happy how my image is hanging in mid air before I saved this I should've placed it to the very bottom. I would also like to credit Katie when I realised my original version was landscape and she helped me to change it to portrait in doing this the words in the background are lost and probably doesn't really make sense now.  Everything is still a huge learning curb for me.

Album art cover project by Jackie Wilson

When I was looking for Album Covers that might inspire me for my Album Art Cover project I tried to look at artists that I liked and listened to. As I listen to a wide range of music I tried to narrow it down to 3 so as not to over complicate things.

1. David Bowie

2. Eurythmics/Annie Lennox

3. Florence and the Machine

I like that they are portraits of the artists themselves

I like that they are either limited in colour or are very colourful

David Bowie

Artist: Mile Marjanovic

Pyrography (wood burning)

From the 2008 series "Portraits of musicians"

I like the earthy tones

scratch mark texture 

I like the brush strokes in the hair

Minimal outline in the face

I like the use of negative space

I like the use of bold randomly placed colour and the splotches of white like it's a painting

I like how it looks hand drawn 

The use of the name how it has a solid form and how it's also placed

I like the use of minimal colour

Another great portrait by Artist: Mile Marjanovic

I like the font and where it's placed

I like the line markings in this image

I like the wall paper background effect

Into the first couple of weeks this is what I produced as an Album Cover I didn't even know how to put it on the mock up cover.

I do not feel very confident with photoshop but as this was a first attempt at this sort of project I think I'm pleased how the album art turned out.
There is definitely room for improvement.
I found a wallpaper pattern that I liked and changed the opacity in the face and for the background of the cover.
I made the hat a solid colour using it as a contrast against the wallpaper pattern.
As most of the album covers I looked up of Florence and the machine used very similar font which I liked I decided to keep this and placed it similarly to how it's placed on other albums.
Most of the albums are portrait and so I kept with the same theme.
Florence is well known for her red hair and again it was something I wanted to stand out for the album cover. I tried using a few ideas from the album covers I looked out to produce this end album cover.

This was the original picture that I choose for the Album cover. A great frontal portrait of Florence

with good negative space that I can use.

The wallpaper that I used for the background.

The font that I used

I realised with the help of Kendra that because I hadn't coloured in the face the background wallpaper showed through and I kind of liked the effect so I turned down the opacity until I was happy with how it looked.

The end product

A screen shot of the working outs. I've realised after I made this album cover the importance of layers which I feel I didn't use properly however I think it has been a great learning kerb. 

Album Art Covers

https://www.behance.net/search?content=projects&sort=appreciations&time=week&search=Irmak%20Akcadogan

Art - 01 Artist Irmak Akcadogan mixed media canvas, markers, oils, acrylic, paper and pink. Eyes, portraits. Lines and cirles

Album Artwork for Bella Hemming by Sydney based artist Ling McGregor who specialises in portraits and primarily works with graphite and coloured pencil.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/20429489/Rapsody-Beauty-and-the-Beast-EP

DJ Cindy - Branding
Artist: Yogi Chauchau
https://www.behance.net/gallery/30057119/DJ-Cindy-Branding