thoughts on alight project.

For this project we were given the idea to create an illustration for the alight festival. We had to choose how we would output the design too, I decided to focus on a tshirt design for a young audience, I wanted the piece to also focus on the aspect of the music and how the festival is aimed at the community of sheffield to celebrate their city. I decided on creating a visual metaphor for the music by creating illustrations and patterns whilst listening to music, I thought it would be interesting to see what patterns I came out with. I really enjoyed doing this I used watercolours, pens, pencil crayons for my markmaking of the music. I listened to lots of different kinds of music
mostly classic and orchestral, as an orchestra was holding the festival. I did a few of these painting to music techniques and I really enjoyed it! for my final pieces i scanned in the painted patterns onto photoshop and edited on their, I included my illustrated hands too, to strengthen the idea of togetherness, because it is a simple yet meaningful symbol - handholding. I wanted the music to be travelling up to the hands. I stated that I would be using photoshop within this project, it isn't an area I am comfortable with, but i am pleased with my final outcome. I am disappointed I was not shortlisted for the project, but that was due to illness and not being able to present my work. I feel that I would have had more motivation to push my idea further. Like maybe even printing one of my designs onto an actual tshirt. I feel there is definite room for improvement, I could have developed it more, but I did want a fairly simply yet effective image. I liked the idea of a black silhouette for my buildings and I liked the idea of illustrated hands, and I believe colour and a grey background link the too in a subtle yet successful way.

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