Assignment four

Magazine illustration

This time design an illustration for the magazine based on a still life.  I have to select the items for the still life, which represent one of the topics:

• Lost
• Disaster
• Discovery
• Guilty secret

spider diagram

an idea nr. 1

an idea nr. 2

an idea nr. 3

 an idea nr. 4

I did four drawings. I have four different ideas to choose from.  I feel like the fourth idea has the biggest chance to succeed as a final illustration.

stage 1

I inversed the colours using the computer program called Photoshop to achieve black and white effect. Next, I added more blue tone to make it more interesting.

stage 2

At this stage, I could do anything with this image.  I decided to play with more colours on the black background.

I was not happy with the result therefore I made decision about changing the colour of the background into something warmer.

stage 3

I was starting to like the idea therefore I was happy to work on the different parts of the illustration.

For the hands and the snake, I used the brown paper that I scanned earlier.  For the doll’s dress, I used material that I bought ages ago in the charity shop.  I liked the floral pattern therefore; I thought it would accomplish my illustration nicely.

stage 4

I am so happy that I can use the computer program as it makes my life easy as an illustrator.  It is so good when I want to see different results without loosing anything that I made before.  This time I made one layer invisible and I got very interesting effect.  I really liked my illustration without that pink background.

stage 5

I was very pleased at this stage of my illustration.  I was ready to play with the background and the words.  I used the Matisse ITC font to write everything.  I thought it would go nicely with the character and the style of my illustration.

                                                               finished illustration

I would like to say something about my illustration.  The story it is about a secret in the relationship.  The doll represents the female side of the relationship.  This time she has the guilty conscious therefore she cannot say anything. I used an apple as a symbol of forbidden fruit.  Someone took a bite out of it already.  I used a snake as another sing of romance. The doll is walking on the snake’s head to forget about betraying the one that she loves.  Two wedding rings are apart already.

The composition is good and it leads an eye in different places.