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.
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