Adobe Compositions
Projects created in Adobe software, including redesigns of movie posters, digital paintings, and a children's alphabet book.
Our assignment was to redesign a movie poster or book cover. I love movies so I chose to recreate a poster and picked the beloved classic Singing in the Rain. It was so much fun to work on!
For the majority of the last year, I interned at Clark County Food Bank in Vancouver, Washington; one of my coworkers, Cleome, wrote a cute fruit alphabet for her future preschool-aged students since she was a nutrition educator. She asked if I’d be interested in making illustrations to go with the words- very much so! I loved drawing for the book, I had to look up pictures of kids in different positions to use as references for Quin in his adventures of trying new fruits! Funny story: this wasn’t funny or fun at the time, but when I was roughly 3/4s done with the drawings, something happened in Illustrator and half of the brushstrokes in the drawings disappeared…example can be viewed below. I was shocked upon discovery of this and weighed both options of how to proceed. I could either redo all the drawings even though most of them were already completed or painstakingly repaint all the white areas within the images. Neither was particularly ideal. Ultimately I decided to refill the drawings and believe me, it took longer than one would expect! But it was worth it and I’m excited for future readers to learn about the diversity of the fruit world!
Perhaps my favorite movie theme regards the “other” or those who are misunderstood. The Breakfast Club is an eye-opening example of that; I think at some point everyone struggles with identity during high school, but this particular film stands out above other HS-centered movies. There’s a short scene in which the characters are walking and the clip is entirely shot showing their feet only. I appreciated this perspective, it is an approach I have used in drawings before so I decided to redesign the poster with that in mind.
One of my favorite films, this movie proved to be strangely prophetic in the new concept and rise of “reality” television. I appreciate thought-provoking cinema that is more than just entertainment, that carry depth and meaning. This film also has one of my favorite movie soundtracks, the background score is just beautiful and does a great job of representing emotions of different scenes.
In my Illustrator class, we had to create our own critters or characters. Naturally, this project was my favorite of the class and out of it, Noof and Norby were born. I love these two and they quickly worked their way into my future book. I went on to make my first ever animated film about them that same semester!
Our assignment was to create a digital painting of an animal so I chose a fox.