Final Design Roughs and Self Portrait

When producing my final design roughs, I created a work space for each idea at the specified size, before illustrating. I made both designs in pencil and left them intentionally colourless. As well as my design roughs, I made a self-portrait to be placed alongside my finished design, and was illustrated traditionally with ink.

The first idea has been taken from the initial design before I experimented with developing its content and composition. I feel like this was the most effective composition in portraying the meaning of the illustration to the viewer. While this is a far more direct interpretation of the given proverb, I am pleased with how far I have managed to push the two interpretations apart from each other.

The second idea takes elements from previous visual research and compositional ideas, and merges them into one image, which I believe acts as a successful illustration. I feel like I was able to balance the level of detail with the large white spaces in the image - assisted in part by the 'front-on' perspective of the train station/track. This design is significantly different from the first in both interpretation and aesthetic, and gives a good contrast to it.

For my self-portrait illustration, I wanted it to represent the style of art I am currently working with. As I intend to use traditional inking methods for my Final Major Project, I created the self-portrait using the same technique. I like the white balance I have achieved in the image, as well as the semi-realistic visual design of myself.

While these illustrations remain monochromatic, I could have given each of the designs some indication of colour to better represent how they will look when finished. I believe that this process would have taken too much time to do, and could overall prove to be unneccesary when considering that the images are not supposed to be the finished version.