For this fall-themed assignment, I chose a quote from the classic cartoon It's a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Personally, I felt like this connected to the 'theme' of autumn, being a movie based around halloween, pumpkins, and the general month of October. I also chose this quote specifically because it had an opportunity for repetition with the listing of three different things. For the repetition in this piece, I used the same block letters for the more prominent words, with the rounded lower case for the rest. I chose the lower case letters because I felt that it connected to the personality of Linus, the character being quoted, and that he is a young child, so I wanted to make the letters seem a little 'child-like' to reference this. In the film, Linus believes in a Santa-esque entity called the "Great Pumpkin", who arrives on Halloween night bringing presents. The block letters were originally a mix of cursive, but I felt like that clashed with the rest of the design and cut it out. The illustrative piece of the design is the large pumpkin at the bottom, symbolizing the 'Great Pumpkin' and pumpkins in general being a symbol for autumn, and the failed ghost costume of Charlie Brown, symbolizing an iconic part of the movie and the theme of Halloween and 'spookiness' being prevalent during the fall. Overall, I think that I am moderately happy with the piece, but when looking at it from the angle in the picture it seems that some of the block lettering at the top is slightly slanted, something I didn't catch until viewing the photo on my computer screen. This may have been caused by me using a small ruler, so while making a guide line in the middle of the page it may have become slanted due to it not being held against the edges of the paper.
The top image is the final image from this project, and the three images below in the gallery show various thumbnails and practice sketches I did while trying to figure out the final design. Originally, the design was with rounded lower case letters, but this was eventually changed because it made the letters too hard to figure out while reading the design with the "chaos" in it. The thumbnails are all very messy, some with multiple styles of inking in one to get a feel for what I should do. I feel like this helped me during the process, even though it was frustrating trying to figure it out. Eventually, I settled on capital letters, with a focal point of the planet in the far right, stippling in the background with all the 'space things' and letters inked in, and a white outline around the letters themselves. The planet itself also changed during the process, originally being more like jupiter but I felt like that was too similar to the space squiggles (and harder to draw), so it ended up looking more like Jupiter. I felt like the stippling provides a little bit more of the chaos for the design, and also provides the white outline for the inked in letters. It also provides some interest for the planet, with the stippling changing the tone over half of it. Overall, I feel that I was successful with this design, but there are some things that I would change or 'do better' if I did it again. Some of this just includes minor inking mistakes, like filling in the wrong space stuff, but I also wish that I had done a more even outline around the letters. I feel like this was a challenging project in general because of how hard it was to find balance between the order and chaos, in that over my thumbnails I kept slipping between the two without a balance. I think that I achieved it in the end, but it took a while and many sketches.
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