Theater Set Update

I added some lights and more stars in the marquee image that can be easily animated later.

 

For the desk skirt, I traced over the old design with vectors and added some lighting to show more depth and space. I also added a thin gold frame around the desk skirt to keep the composition more balanced.

 

For the vertical display, I used the same assets and similar colors as the other two designs to keep everything more cohesive. I still need to add the mask and maybe some ribbons and stars to complete the display.

Theater Set Design

This week I’ve been focusing on the set graphic design for TD301, and it includes this marquee piece. I wanted to recreate the very exciting, sparkling colors of a marquee while still retaining the clarity of words, so I only chose two main colors. The alternating red and gold creates a strong contrast even with the dotted lights on, and I am very pleased with how it turned out.

I played around with a few different fonts to emphasize the initials in the center of the marquee, and I think I will stick with the last one because the letters are thicker. However, I do like how the pink neon lights of the second one looks overall with the gold and red, so I might come back and edit it a bit more after I work more on the center stage.

Character Creation

Cool uber driver with suave hair (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

Illustration

This is a very chill illustration assignment that don’t have much restrictions on the content, so I resorted to what I find the most fun drawing- cute girls. I started off with just a girl sitting in a field of flowers with a cat in hand, but then I want something to frame the composition more, so I added a bird cage.  The cage by itself still don’t feel quite right for me, so then I added a galaxy background with lots of stars. The clustered stars effect is achieved by a splatter paint brush, and the muster yellow dots against dark Ultramarine and Prussian blue made them appear to glow.

The floral garden kind of vibe I received from the bird cage eventually lead me to add more leaves around the edges, and I also doodled some flowers, circles, and butterflies (that I detest with passion) around the girl. To make the girl stand out more, I erased all colors from her, leaving only a white silhouette with colored outlines.

The assignment preferred flat cell shading, so instead of doing my usual routine with multiple dark and light layers to create a sense of space and form, I relied on the shape of my brush and different combinations of 100% opaque colors to add complexity to my illustration.

 

 

This Is Democracy

This week I worked on the podcast cover for This is Democracy, and it has been a very fun experience! I chose a very simple art style for the four characters and gave them distinctive features to show diversity. Because the professor wants to cater to the younger, student audience, I wanted to create something that would catch the attention of people in my age group, and not to seem very boring, thus I decided to approach my design with a comic art style. To do that, I incorporated bright colors and screentones to give out a youthful and energetic feel that would attract student.

I received some wonderful feedbacks from other STAs that feel like the red text is a bit hard to read in the draft version, so in my final version, I added white text bubbles to increase the contrast between the background and text. To further emphasize the comic style boldness, I changed the stroke on all text and images to a dark gray shade as opposed to the previous dark blue, and used a different sized screentone to add shadows. To make the composition more exciting, I also added some emphasizing strokes with a textured brush to show direction and drew some stars as well.

Overall, I had so much fun working working on this podcast cover, and I’m very happy that I had this opportunity to explore different styles. Though I followed all the design guidelines from the professor, I know that my design is very different from all the other designs, but I hope my design would add a bit of fun to someone’s day~

Russian 412 PPT

 

As an update of the old Russian PPT banner, I changed the squirrels to rabbits and added mushrooms along the sides. To make the banner more interesting, cobblestone design was added with the addition of some grass along the lines. The textures and drop shadows were all kept the same as the old versions for consistency, and the basic shapes of rabbits and mushrooms are masked with the same textures as well.

 

                   

 

Because the detailed cobblestone and mushroom design does not fit the other banners in the past, I had to do some redesigns. Instead of using the cobblestones to make the design more intricate, I used some organic swirls with plant motifs. The swirls consists of a thick, base one that runs throughout the banner to set the shape of the path for the rabbits to sit on, and a much more delicate one that sort of frames the banner and make it more balanced. To Tate’s suggestion, I also changed one of the bunnies to a standup, profile position. The updated bunny banner looks much more cohesive with the past squirrel and bird banners, and I am very happy with how it turned out at the end, but I do miss the chubby mushrooms ( ´･∀･｀)