Brief 4: iPhone Cover Design

 

Peacock iPhone Cover

I started by drawing flowers and curls, but when I saw a picture of a peacock on a card, I thought to draw the same peacock and make it my iPhone cover design. I used the pen tool in Illustrator to draw the peacock. It took me a very long time to draw the peacock with all its small details. For the colors, I was planning to make the peacock silver and make the background in a turquoise/purple gradiant. As I was filling in the background with the gradiant, I accidently colored the peacock instead and loved the way it looked, so I continued on coloring its' details using similar colors as the gradiant but using it in different ways

 After I finished with the turquoise/purple peacock, I copied it and reflected it vertically, then changed the colors of the gradiants. I also tried it with the black background and it looked very nice.



Brief 3: Poetry in Motion

In this assignment, we had to choose a poem or quote and give interpretive visual expression using
only type. I came upon a few quotes and poems, but the one that intrigued me the most was this "If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets". First of all because it's one of my wishes that a wish is caught rather than waiting for it to come true... I don't like waiting :) Second of all, as soon as I read the quote, an image came to my mind of wishes swimming around and lots of nets trying to catch them.

Using Illustrator, I started by drawing a fish, then putting the word wishes into it, then making them in different sizes, as in big wishes and smal wishes. For the nets, I used the type on a path tool and the quote's words to draw them, then copied and scaled a few (top right) to make them seem far.

Brief 2: Typographic Self Portrait