Flamenco Poster for Illustrator Class

I have been meaning to put this piece up for a while.

We were made to create a poster for our final project in Illustrator class. I decided to do one on a Flamenco event, and researched on the internet to see what other event posters looked like. They were all very busy with floral and vine ornamentation.

I originally wanted to do a black and gold piece because I've been hooked onto Sam Sparro's song. Also used Fabian Perez's painting for the illustrator work. I kept a little red (magenta) for the feel of Spanish FLamenco.

There is a longer story about how I got to this final composition, but I just made sure there were lines along the neck of the dancer and the red swish to point to the information of the event and try to keep all the elements of the piece to relate to each other.

I'm more worried about my other final project for Design Fundamentals... argh!

Design Fundamental Final Project

We've been doing projects for the class throughout the semester. I've not been enjoying the cutting and pasting but the last two projects, we've been allowed to color/draw with oil pastels. Many of my classmates and I have developed an aversion to oil pastel because of its smudgy property and melts in our hands.

However, I am really resistant to give my final project that we have to emulate a 20th century Post-Modernist style. I chose Pop Art and doing a Santa Claus for Christmas might work--I'm not sure if we're supposed to simulate a famous artist's style (say make it comic book-y) or work with a theme.

I made a second piece that was a minimalist, and saw a simple piece with vertical bars in black paint.

Well it's either this Santa Claus close up or a green minimalist piece...?

Horror film project

I decided to do the word "demon" for my wordPlay project in Typography class. It was a simple concept but I didn't expect it to be a lot of work--I thought that I could easily do something in Illustrator, but when I showed it to the teacher, he advised that I should make it more realistic, more like a photograph and look at shadows from photographs.

I did take photographs and worked with how the shadows look. I ended up trying to duplicate the shadows on the wall and the grainy look of noir horror films like Nosferatu.

I hope I did it justice and here it is: