CMYK Print Result

After printing the image out i decided that the circles look like they are too close together. I am going to try to figure out a way to put more space between the circles. I am also going to add some more to his chest to allow me to blend the image into the title

CMYK Soldier Attempt 1

Since I my original plan was to make a CMYK dotted image I decided to go ahead and try to make it now so that I can fine tune it for use in my poster. I used a bigger pixel size for the circles as the smaller pixels seem to get lost with distance. I am going to try to make a picture with a 30 pixel circle pattern and see how that looks compared to the 20 pixel circle.

Paintball Sketch Progress 3

In this picture I wanted to play with the size of the dots. I will be making the soldier out of 3 layers that I will make semi-transparent using the CMYK colors. Each layer will be moved over a little bit so that the layers over lap each other but not completely over each other

Paintball Sketch Progress 2

After making the past 2 sketches and hearing feed back on them I decided to use a soldier as paintball is a very war like sport. I had been looking at stencils as a way to show the soldier without just pasting a soldier on the page. I started sketching and moved on to the computer. I made one stencil but the helmet was not a full shape so it was hard to see that it was a helmet. I made a second stencil shape in Illustrator and added a gradient of black to see how the filled in areas looked. Although the assignment is primarily black and white for now I could not help myself to see how it looked in color. I made 2 in color, one with smaller dots and the second with bigger dots. (after looking for the files to post I noticed i saved over the black and white image) I still have work to do with the colors as I chose these to see how it looked. I still want to do the title in dots as a continuation of the soldier. The only problem I see (which is always one of my problems) is placing the body text as i dont want the image to be the dominate part of the poster.

Paintball Sketch Progress

I created these two sketches in hopes of finding a solution to the dot and type problem I was facing. I also have been researching how to make the dot pattern for my poster. In the first sketch I was playing with type made of dots to see how it would read. I went big which was too big for what I needed as it dominated the layout. In the second sketch I used a photo from a friend who is a make up artist. We were joking around about paintball scenario of capture the flag gone wrong. The players have taken hostages. After this I decided to use the photo even though it had tape over the mouth, but something good came from this as i got to see how the dot pattern flowed into a dotted title. I want to use the blending of the photo into the title for my final poster

Paintball Ideas Continued

Now that I am playing with the idea of paint balls and the mark they make, I have started to also think of printer pixels or spots using the tri-colors in the cartridge. This poster seems to give off that type of feel.

Paintball Idea Insperations

The concept of paint by number is something that i wanted to play with but maybe paint by letters instead would be a good idea to play off of. I ran into a website called TheAwsomer.com where they have portraits made up entirely of push pins. This again reminds me of Chuck Close, but Chuck Close further from paint by number than can be imagined.

This sculpture was made of 3000 full size soccer balls to make this floating sculpture of a soccer player kicking a soccer ball

Information Design Ideas

My first idea for this poster was to use a paintball gun. The gun consist of a barrel, hopper, body, trigger, and CO2 tank. There's a hose that goes from the tank through the body behind the trigger supplying the pressure to launch the paintball out of the barrel at a high pressure to ensure that the paintball will burst on impact which creates a distinct splatter.

Concept:
A painter choosing his weapon of choice, a brush or a paintball gun. or a house painter using a paintball gun instead of a regular paint gun. Maybe a paint by number type of art. Chuck Close comes to mind when I think of this.

Spiral Progression 3

I finally just went back to the original drawing and found the solution for all the problems I had been facing. Instead of going off in a different direction looking for other possible solutions, I worked the original design until I got the final poster. These are some print outs on the way to the final product. There are still some minor tweaking in fixing the meeting point. I used the paint brush tool but you could see the strokes on a small print so I didn't go with it because on a full size print it would really be noticeable.

Spiral Progression 2

I came up with these designs while trying to figure out the spiral as a graph and the issue of body copy. In the first one I tried to use the spiral as the bar graph it self leading to text. In the second one I took the characteristics of the original spiral and cut it down and put it back together. Making these has helped me get more of a feel for Illustrator.

Spiral Poster Progression

I came up with this design while I was sleeping. I think this will solve the issue of turning my original spiral design into a bar graph. The only issue I face now is the placing of a title.

Getting Used to Illustrator

I am know my way around Adobe Illustrator but by no means am I an expert. To help me get aquainted to Illustrator I started viewing tutorials online. The ones I found to be helpful were from TutVid.com under the section tutorial where they have most of the Adobe line up or at least enough of them to get someone like me started.

Day of a Student Designer Poster

I made this design of gears to show my daily activities on Sept 5th. My idea for this that I have to shift gears in terms of thinking or doing things through out my day. In the center of the shift knob I have the shift order of my day like a stick shift transmission.