Although the thumbnails for the Chili Cook-Off poster aren’t colorful, they are my tightest thumbnail comps from this semester. I did quite a bit of work before I even began drawing the comps: brainstorming concepts, sketching a lot of pencil comps, and finally spacing them on two pages, penciling them in, and filling in with marker. They turned out rather nicely, I think, and I was the only one in my class to use a gray Prismacolor marker instead of all black.
I also think these thumbnails show great conceptual variety. Because the event was raising money for Heifer International (an organization devoted to promoting agriculture in developing countries), I thought of using an illustration of a corn plant with a ladle full of chili growing out of it. This turned out to be not as great a design choice as I had hoped, so I moved on to illustrations of chili peppers, bowls of chili, spoons, and cowboys (why not?) But the most significant reason for including these thumbnails in my final portfolio is the attention I paid to detail and to making them look snappy, the way I would have if I had been drawing them for a client.
No comments:
Post a Comment