GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS POSTER

My intention was to show the important of ending gun violence. The red, black, and white color combinations gives off a striking message. In my personal opinions, guns should stay in a shooting range, not on the streets. In recent years, we've had an increased amount of gun violence in the United States. Children, adults, innocent bystanders, educators, and etc. have been killed from these guns. The striking red on the poster represents the volatile behavior guns can create. The poster eventually goes down to innocent silhouette of children in a more mellow, yet contrasting environment. I am a strong opposer of gun violence and it should not be the deciding fate for people on the bullet end. 

Awareness Poster Prelim sketch

The preliminary sketch looks very simple. I would make the target sign bigger to increase its significance. But I would stick to the red, white, and black color theme for this particular awareness because it fits. Gun violence is an increasing crime in our country and a gun should not be the fate of so many others. 

WEBSITE & NAVIGATION

I'm a car enthusiast so I wanted to dedicate my digital art portfolio with a Subaru car theme. I used the car parts as the link to different pages. As for the title of the page, I wanted it to seem more personal to the person viewing my site so I decided to go with a handwritten type. I tried to keep the type consistent throughout the whole project so it won't confuse the viewers. For the color theme, I chose a darker blue that I eyedropped from the car's shadows and used the gold from the rims to make the whole site fit together as a whole. As the minimalist that I am, I tried to keep it short and clean. Hope you guys like it! Oh! and my sketch is right here as well.

E-CARD design

I decided to take a comical approach to this E-card. I think the point presented is quite obvious. I also integrated recognizable media figure to emphasize the playfulness of this message. As a minimalist, I tried to keep things simple by using minimal amounts of type. As for the images, I did a little collaging and filtered them by posterizing it to create the fine line that is comic book art. Hope you guys like it. 

e-card concept sketch

I think that environmental issues should be addressed in a more fun and active way that will capture the audiences' attention just by the glimpse of the card. I decided to go with a more interactive theme this time around and stuck with a "comic strip" theme. The characters would be graphically designed and minimal type. The image should be enough to depict a short scene that clearly addresses the issue of recycling. The "RecycleMan", played off of Superman, goes around fighting people who do not recycle. However, RecycleMan does not fight with his fists, he snatches up plastic from people who tend to toss them on the streets and aims the trash towards a recycling can. He's definitely a new superhero to look up to.

FINAL FRANK SINATRA BOOK COVER

I finished a bit early but I actually like this very much. The minimalist aspect is very much me because I believe in less is more. The colors depict a more classic musician and this is very close to my original sketch idea. The stars added a bit of an effect for me but generally did not overpower the figure or the type. The bold and black type with white shadow differentiated it from the gold background and creating a more popping feature. By merging the transparent and gold background, it gives dimensions to Sinatra. So instead of him being flat on one surface, he now looks more dimensional where the transparent and gold meets. 

SINATRA BOOK COVER

I've always been a fan of Frank Sinatra's music. For this book, I decided to choose him as the main character. For the older 50's theme, I wanted to utilize a minimal amount of color in a classy way. I want to use the colors: gold, black, and white to represent the era that is Frank Sinatra. The title will blend in with his jacket on the background of gold and white. On the spine, there will be gold type on black ground. As for the back of the book cover, I thought that by putting a retro microphone would easily represent Frank Sinatra and what he does for those who aren't familiar with him. On gold background, the white microphone will pop along with Frank's iconic signature splashed across the page as well.