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.