Initial Ideas and Crit

Initial Ideas and Crit

Today I began creating some initial ideas for my flag design. After the previous talk we had about semiotics, I was able to make a start limiting myself to a 45 degree grid making simple line drawings and logos to see what may come of it. I based these illustrations of five words related to my sub genre and research. These words were rhino, culture, aggression, trade and against. 

Here was a bunch of my initial sketches to get me going. I was trying to be a bit literal here but hopefully something more unique would come out of these shapes. For the rhino illustration I was attempting to draw a simple rhinos head which then developed into a rhinos horn becoming even simpler. For the word trade, I was attempting to illustrate some simple arrows and jigsaw like blocks to resemble the term. For the rest of the terms, sharp and spontaneous shapes emerged for obvious reasons which managed to resemble the other words pretty well. I was having more trouble with the trading one however. I wanted it to work well but didn't know how to do it without being incredibly literal with arrows. One idea I had for culture was to show too illustrations the same shape but one fades in colour resembling multiple cultures, which is what that genre welcomes. I also wanted to perhaps use the word community at some point as that what the whole scene thrives on.

Here are a few digital mock ups and developments of my previous sketches. I began with a really simple illustration for the term against, depicting a jagged line bouncing against a wall or shield. This is very literal and could use improvement. The second two illustration are reflecting the term culture. As stated before I would show two shapes and one would fade showing diversity. The third idea here is showing the phrase trading and simply linking two objects together. I managed to not include any arrows in this one luckily. For the finale rhino horn, I was advised to follow the grid exactly to give it this pixelated effect. This gives it perhaps more character compared to the simple line drawing on the right there. 

After a group crit, it was decided that my rhino idea was definitely the best one. They stated that I should change the horn illustration to a whole rhinos head like previously. This makes it more obvious of what it is as at the moment its hard to tell what its meant to be. I showed my favourite album cover from this genre of music which was a close up of a note of the currency used in Brazil with the title of the band at the top. My peers said that I could try using money to somehow illustrate something or perhaps put the rhino head in where the queens should be. I was recommended the app can . scanner which instantly thresholds any photo taken. I could use this to help me illustrate the money as scanners refuse to scan them. When thinking of a possible colour scheme it was way too easy to just use the Brazilian flag so I was recommended to research the Sao Paulo as that is where the genre originated from.