Craft: The assignment for this week was to finish the original illustration of our photograph as well as create three new spin offs of our illustration.
Pic 1.) “Shoe on Fire”
To finish my original illustration I spent most of my time on the fire and the background just making finishing touches.
Pic 2.) “Shoe #666”
For my first spin off, I decided to make my illustration into a dark devilish picture. I changed the background to almost all black and make the bricks in the background different by using a three lined brush. I them chanced the outlines of the shoe using a different brush from the brush library. This made the shoe look more like it was drawn with a pencil. Finally, I changed the colors of the fire to green, blue, and purple and added a devils face and pitchfork to the design.
Pic 3.) “Snap, Crackle, Shoe”
When making my second version of my illustration I started to play around with different Illustrator effects. I left the background colors the same as my original but I changed the brick brush and make the lines wavy. For the shoe, I changed the brush stroke into such an extreme look that the illustration takes on an out of reality appearance. The most interesting feature of this illustration is the fire. I used an effect called Roughen, which is located under: Effects / Distort & Transform / Roughen. I also added a black brush stroke all the way around every fire layer to give the fire a unique look that really captures the eye.
Pic 4.) “Put that Shoe Out!”
For my final spin off illustration I decided to add an extra image of a fire extinguisher. I make the fire extinguisher by finding an actual image off Google, importing the picture into Illustrator, then tracing the actual picture, and finally making the whole illustration of the fire extinguisher into one layer and dragging it into the shoe illustration.
Pic. 2) I wanted this illustration to really convey darkness and devil like characteristic. For this reason I decided to make the whole image mostly all black. Also, I wanted some subtlety so an added the image of the devils face very lightly into the top apart of the fire, along with the pitchfork. The changing of the colors of the fire from real life to green and purple was a way for me to convey a different meaning through the fire.
Pic. 3) I wanted this illustration to have the same colors and features of the original but I wanted to chance the reality form really life to outside reality. Using different brush strokes from the library really help accomplish a more drawn or cartoonish look. Also, by using the Roughen effect the fire took on a life of it’s own. The fire in this picture has more of a sound effect like crackling and popping, which really changes from the warm glow of the original fire.
Pic. 4) This picture was made more to change the original illustration in a completely different way. By adding the fire extinguisher the idea of the picture changes from a shoe on fire into fighting the fire of the shoe in order to put the fire out.
Pic. 2) The message I was creating in this illustration was one of a devil coming out of the fire of the shoe. I wanted the audience to get the shivers when they first looked at this picture. I also wanted the devil to be subtle so only those who have enough courage to take a close up look at the picture will be able to really see the devil.
Pic 3.) The concept in this illustration was sound. I wanted the sound of the fire to really be conveyed through the used of brushes and effects. With the used of these elements, the fire allows the audience to use another one of their senses, sound. So with sight and sound this illustration really inviting for the audience.
Pic. 4) The meaning of this illustration is turning this image into one of fire and changing it into one of putting out fire. I wanted to do a complete 180 in the ideas of fire to no fire.
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