EXERCISE 3: POP ART POSTCARD

Brief “Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
ANDY WARHOL
Using Photoshop, illustrate the above quote in a Pop Art/photo-collage
inspired postcard.

So for our new brief we have to make a sort of pop art inspired post card which sounds a bit generic but after looking at some examples you can make it more inspired by pop art and not pop art itself. here are some examples i liked and will try to get some inspiratin from.

John Heartfield created ww2 inspired work which i fell work really seamlessly as images that i like and it dosent use the bright colours which i automatically associate with pop art ie andy warhol

refined chess poster

after talking with joel ive decided to simplfy my design so heres the final simplified layout for my chess poster

complete the posters, i used and orthogonal view for the main artwork in front of the set at each end on a background. Ive done two versions, one with a checkerboard background and one with a rendered one, i prefer the later just not sure if it can be submitted as the render was not done on illustrator, anyway here they are

couldent help my self so i took the pieces over to sketchup, made a quick model and rendered them using vray, they turned out nicely and i think they work really well as a set.

Pieces, 2d

So from my sketches ive designed the pieces from front on in illustrator, each piece represents the way it moves on the board and is very simple yet i think effective in design

Inspiration

So ive been thinking about what ill do for a chess piece and have ahd no ideas until i actually played a game. Ive decided on basing each chess piece on how it moves on the board. So here are some initial sketeches to get me going and to illustrate what i mean, sort of like a beginners chess set.

so i found two pieces i liked form the olden days. This first one is of a european queen form 12th century spain. Its a good piece just because of the detail, i looks like a sculpture just by itself.

This next one is my favourite because it looks like a modenr interpretation of a chess piece yet it is actually and ancient one depicting a king on elephant back.

New Brief

So this new brief is basically to design a new set of chess pieces and use them to create a black and white poster. Should be interesting, will start with some research

Mandala Complete

Heres my mandala finished, happy with final result, time for next project!