Philosopher chosen: Bell Hooks (Love as Practice)
Claim: Love may look like patience, but it is actually inherent
Theme: convenience vs. care
Concept: Contradiction (being nervous and having a good experience can coexist)
General Newspaper Inspiration:
Final Composition:
Artist Inspiration: Aubrey Beardsley: Beardsley worked primarily in black and white/grayscale, and that is the overall vibe I wanted to reach for. With the newspaper being set in the golden age, I figured it was important to fully encapsulate what the imagery should look like if it were in the same time period. Beardsley also used sort of elongated figures, as seen in examples, so perfect proportions weren't my main focus.
Rough Sketch (Analog):
Final Composition:
For our second project, the prompt was to create a newspaper-style cover that contains a metaphor. For my philosopher and claim, I chose Bell Hooks' "Love as Practice." From this, I chose to portray my roommate Keira and me, and emphasize the love that takes place in our personal friendship. For the claim, I chose "Love may look like patience, but it is actually inherent," meaning that love formed from a friendship is everlasting and essential. I knew that I wanted to have my dominant image be a photo of the two of us, where you can see that we're happy with each other's presence. My inspiration was Golden Age newspaper cover pages, along with the artist Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley worked primarily in grayscale, and going hand-in-hand with the vintage look of the newspaper pages I was looking at, I knew that was the route that I wanted to take. Using Adobe Illustrator, I imported my images and added levels to them, to give them that sort of cartoony, illustrated look while still maintaining the subjects in the images. Beardsley additionally had harsher lines throughout his work, so I decided to add a thick, white outline to the dominant image to further push my inspiration into my final artwork. A few principles of the piece that challenged me were the layout and text. Figuring out how to lay out the page adequately while still keeping the images the main focus was my goal, and I think it ended up being executed fairly well. With the first letters of the main text blocks being bold and script, I intended to lean more into the actual newspaper look, or sort of like an older story. Using all of the mentioned principles helped me be able to create a composition that was originally a bit out of my comfort zone, but with guidance from the references used.
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