Evaluation

Everything about this brief made me love it, i love music and i love illustration so i had to choose it. It took me a while to pick a rtist because i was contemplating what style i want to do, should i do Jimi Hendrix and do a psychedlic vibe, a trance beat so i could incorporate lights, night and dance or should i do reggae or motown or rnb, i ended going for the reggae vibe because a song i had recently gotten into "Turn your lights down low". When i knew the artist i would use - Bob Marley, i started on the research, i knew the reggae style quite a bit but i went deep into the styling so that i could take little bits out of each one to create a great design. During researching i found an Image of Bob which was painted (i thought it was water colour but it wasnt), i immediatly wanted to try this as an outcome, i thought because of the chilled nature of the genre that the water colour would look good. I started experimenting with the water colours and quickly got an idea and started the design, i got to a certain point before getting designers block, this was a huge problem for me because this experimental design had to be done within a time limit and i didnt plan for something like this and so i started the 2nd illustration.
     The Sun is shining illustration was me in my comfort zone - Illustrator, therefor i quickly found and made a design for my song prior to this i had been struggling to decide what the outcome would be, it was originally going to be a motion illustration but i changed my mind to a vinyl. The vinyl idea gave me the oppurtunty to push my design much further and because i loved the idea so much the design ideas started flowing out, i quickly finished Sun is shinign and moved back to Turn your lights down low where i found an idea straight away and finished that off.
    This project was the first project i got a full on designers block, i couldnt think of anything for days but i found doing something else then coming back to it really helped. Im very pleased with my outcomes and i am also happy that i tried another type of media to create an illustration, i believe when made up into a proper vinyl it will show the full potential rather than just being printed out. If i was to do the project again, i would plan for such things as designers block but apart from that i felt i researched as much as i needed to, i learned how to wrap text in illustrator very well, i learned more about illustration and most importantly i improved my abilities and opened up my mind to different types of mediums such as painting.

COMPLETE

So i finally did everything i wanted to do, i have answered the brief by; 1. creating an illustration for 2 songs and 2. instrumenting a way for the fans to access it.

These are the final design presentations..

Im not sure about the one above or this one...

This one shows the full design where as the other one cuts a bit out but the other one shows you how the design would go. Undecided... i could just put a small line half way through the design to show it folds.