Icon Process

Here is a time line of some of the stages my icons have made. This has been a lot of process but over all I feel my theme of a circular, curvy strokes, and kooky feeling

 has been applied. 

Here are some type layouts for weather. I decided to go with all hand made layouts, photographed, then put in layers in photoshop. 

For wind I threw cut words on the copier as it was printing, arranged some by hand then layered them over the background word wind.
For Night I took a needle and punched holes around the typeface then lit a candle and placed it behind the paper and took a photo. With a slow shutter speed the light was captured through the holes and gave it a nice effect of twinkling stars maybe?
For dusk I let a small amount of candle light hit the work and with a slow shutter speed it creates this look. I wanted to capture the feeling of last gleam of light that occurs at dusk. I did the same for the fireflies and layered them in photoshop.
For fog I took a photo of the word out of focus to create a blurred look. I did the same for  the descriptive words in the background then layered them in photoshop.

Judy

This is a screen shot of my judy garland poster for image class. I like it so far...Im sure it will need some changes though.

drawings for icons

This is the second stage in my icon making process. I am going to try to go with a circular theme throughout my objects. I like the abstract look it has from the original object.

type: story board

My group decided to take our four objects(fork,key,lamp,remote) and create a story about an alien. It start off with the alien soaring through space then landing on a strange planet. We tell the many emotions that are experienced on this planet, then the departure home! This was a very difficult thing to start off with, it was hard to create a story with such a wide range of objects. I am very pleased with our odd, unique story line. :)

Book Scans..Kooky Lady

This is my cover for my book. I wanted to use an ugly floral pattern that reminded me of something a older lady would actually find appealing and have as a bedspread or wall paper. I found this fabric and used it for a background. The lady pictured on the front is exactly who I picture when I think of a Kooky Lady. I used metal flower brads to add a tacky touch.

This is My perfume layout. I wanted to find older looking perfume bottles to help capture the old kooky feeling. I also found an old perfume ad that added a touch to the background element and I tried to use these sort of old, odd ads to get the feeling that usually older ladies are more kooky than young.

Jewelry: Old ladies usually have some pretty "fabulous" jewelry. I always think of big, colorful, heavy jewelry when I picture it on a kooky lady. My layouts are sort of random collage like layouts. I chose to do this because I feel in the mind of a kooky lady things would be chaotic and not organized.
Knitting: Kooky old ladies usually are very "crafty" so I used knitting as an object. For my labeling throughout the book I wanted to do a sloppy random handwriting, sometimes misspelled and corrected because older ladies sometimes misspell and have sloppy handwriting. 

Text and photo together!

Progress on the word FORK!

Inspiration!

Some inspiring photos of kooky old ladies....haha

Kooky Lady

10 Words to describe a kooky old lady.

1: Cats

2: Moccasin shoes

3: Curlers

4: Cigarettes

5: Big hat

6:  Purse (that looks like a bag)

7: panty hose (with runs)

8: smelly perfume

9:  Robe

10: ugly jewelry

Type: Project one: FORK

Words that go with Fork:

food

diet

stab

poke

pointy

aggressive

spear

eat 

silverware

breakfast

lunch

dinner

brunch

held

snack

family

male

dagger

buffet

satan

restaurant

table

manners

to-go

plastic

shank

tool

Mark Making!

This is some of my marks and objects for my mark making. Look and read from bottom of blog to top!! 

If you add the squares from the nail polish it could make a window for the chamber in the line "in a woman's chamber."
moth.
I discovered if you add the marks of the lightbulb and the burnt paper, it makes a complete moth.
burnt paper again.
This mark was made from a piece of burnt paper for " burnt to a crisp." It reminded me of a moths wings.
The mark it made.
A light bulb to represent brightness. From the line "a moth saw brightness"
The marks it made.
A pearl necklace also for woman.
examples of marks it made.
Nail polish also to represent a woman for the same line.
The mark it made gives a very splattered look. I am not sure how it works yet, but i love the textures of this mark.
A bobby pin to represent a woman for the line "in a woman's chamber".
The make it made when rolled on its side sort of looks like flames or fire.
This is a lighter to represent "burnt to a crisp."
This is the mark that the candle made.
This is one of my objects. It is a candle to represent "brightness".

Moth

Concrete    Abstract

Insect              Night

Wings              Sleep

Antenna         Darkness

Larva               tired

Cocoon          nocturnal

Stars                 drowsy

Caterpillar       flutter

mothballs         attracted

moon                pests

Porch light        dreams

Chamber

Concrete          Abstract

room                     quiet

house                    personal

bed                         comfy

compartment      warm

auditorium            peaceful

hall                          calming

cavity                     content

dwelling                 isolated

wallpaper                warm

windows                  relaxing

Burnt

Concrete         Abstract

fried                      red

scorch                   black

hot                         Hell                 

char                       angry

blackened             miserable

scald                     consumed

smoldered            crunchy

fireplace             crispy

flames                   hard

coal                        flaky