Week 7

Craft: For this week’s assignment the job was to create our own personalized style within 5 pieces of art. The way in which we where to go about completing this assignment was to fallow the same 3 rules throughout our five drawings. Also, we had to use the pen and tablet tool while working in Adobe Illustrator. In order to start this project I first had to choose what objects I was going to make drawings of. I choose different types of plastic beverage bottles. After deciding the content of my drawing I then had to develop three rules to fallow. My first rule was of the subject matter, every picture had to be of a plastic bottle. My second rule was using only the “Hand Drawn Brushes Vector Pack” for every outside line. My third and final rule was to only use the “Ink Drop” brush in the “Artistic Brushes” set and only one color within each entire artwork.

Composition: The way in which these three rules formed my style was that each bottle I drew filled the entire page and every bottle was around the same size. I choose to use 8.5x11 size paper so that overall each picture was almost life size compared to the actual bottle. I decided to pick five bottle that all had a different colored liquid inside in order that I could then use a different color for each artwork. I decided to only use the ink drop tool to apply color because when a liquid is poured out of a bottle the if first forms drops on the ground that look just like the ink drop tool. Also I wanted my style of drawing to be an abstract style more so then an exact representation of the actually image. For that reason I really liked how the hand drawn brush made the sidelines of the bottles look like they where drawn with a large marker or brush.

Concept: With these photographs I wanted to really communicate my own style. When I developed my style I wanted it to be really apparent so that no matter who saw my pictures they would quickly be able to understand the style. I felt that the more simple the style the easier I would be to recognized and the more fun I would be able to have when I was creating the artwork. Within these images of plastic bottles I wanted the message to be one of bright colors and easy to distinguish each images. For this reason I only incorporated enough information of each bottle so that the type of beverage and what brand it was would be distinguishable.