sketches cont.

I also worked on my final design today, the brain. I really want to play off of a cotton plant growing a brain. Since I had so much trouble with with the courage design I have to add some part of the scarecrow to this design so I need to rework some things, but this is my basic idea. Now to move onto illustrator...

Sketches

My first idea for the courage seed packet was to play off of the movie and use a medal as the center of the flower and the ribbon as the pedals. Once I started working on it in illustrator though it just didn't seem to come together as a whole idea with the other 2 ideas. So I had to rethink and after brainstorming for a long time we came up with the idea of courage associated with strength. So I am going to try and play off the idea of muscles as the leaves and a sunflower being the mane of a lion. i am also going to add parts of the characters (tin and straw) to the other two designs so this isn't the only one with an actual reference with the character. 

September 27: in progress

After our critique today on our "completed" design I made some final changes to my first seed packet design. I am still working on the wording of "grow a heart" and deciding how I want the three different packets to work together so there will be changes to come. I already started working on my second packet, courage. I'm still in the initial steps, but it will be the next one to finish. 

September 21: inProgress

I eventually decided to change the hearts to look more like human hearts then the actual flower. I feel that this will flow better with my other designs to come. I also made some minor other adjustments with the type and also the background. Overall I think it has improved from what I had at the beginning of class. I'm going to continue to tweak this one while I start my next two designs, I feel the hearts still need some serious work. 

Initial design

This was my initial design for my first seed packet, Grow a Heart. When we came to class we had everyone look at it and make comments on what they thought... there will be changes to come. Some of the things people disagreed with was the outline and also the background is too confusing. A lot of people were also confused as to how I was going to continue the concept of the three gifts from the Wizard of Oz. This one worked well, but how will courage be portrayed. I may play around with things and make these hearts look more like actual hearts and less like the plant so all three will eventually be more cohesive.

Mood Board

For our first project we are creating seed packet designs that have a twist. I choose to do Wizard of Oz seeds. This is my mood board to convey the concept I will eventually show on my seed packet. 

Mind Mapping Exercise

We started with the idea "seed packet" and had to branch off ideas using the mind mapping technique. I just started coming up with random things and even ended up with the Wizard of Oz as one of my points. It's amazing where your mind can go when you stop analyzing and just write down the first word that comes to mind. 

Mario Mushroom Exercise

For this exercise I had to use the mesh tool to create the 3D look of the mushroom. 

In Class Exercise #2

Todays exercise was to recreate logos in adobe illustrator. We had to mainly use the pen tool to recreate 4 logos that we were assigned.

In Class Exercise 1

This is a project I worked on in class today. We had to have over 100 simple black circles and arrange them in and interesting composition using the principles of 2D Design.