Title: Game Over Illustrations

Year: 2017

Overview: For this project, I was required to take a photograph and use it to create a set of illustrations. This included one made from Adobe Photoshop, one from Adobe Illustrator, and one that used both tools.

Audience: The target audience of the pieces was essentially gamers, depicting the idea of a rage quit.

Goals: This project had a few different goals. The first was to practice the use of Photoshop, Illustrator, and the use of both together to create illustrations, while the other goal was to depict the idea of a rage quit, but in an interesting way in which not only the screen breaks, but also the surrounding as well.

Photography: For this work, I essentially started with making a still-life I could use for the project. Though in all honesty, I had just made a few random assortments until I found one that I seemed to like, in which a set of papers and pens were put into a circle with the Nintendo 3DS put into the middle.

Digital: From here, I then proceeded to work on the piece in the programs mentioned above. In Illustrator, I focused on making the shapes and giving the piece color so that not only the paper was separate from each other, but it also created a clear focal point due to the contrast of values between the background and foreground. In the photoshop version, in which I began to think bout the “broken screen and rage quit” idea, I then separated parts of the photo into different layers so that I could move them around so that it would give the feel of that broken screen, using the pens to make it clearer to the viewer. I also added a “Game Over” on the screen to further emphasize the main idea of the piece. Lastly, I brought the files I originally made in Illustrator and then used the same techniques I used in the Photoshop version, making a piece that essentially represented a fusion of the two of them.