Zombie Costume

I took some pictures of my Zombie makeup/costume for the project and to maybe get a feel of what kind of magazine they would go into. These are the two best ones.

Further Considerations on Magazine Cover...

I thought long and hard about what I wanted to do with my magazine cover. Sesame Street Warzone was too literal and just wasn't going to work. I tried to think more broadly. Weapons catalogue? Battle uniforms? My mind was going all over.
Because Halloween was just around the corner, I was thinking about my costume. I usually do a zombie because I'm really good with zombie makeup. Then the thought hit me; the Muppets on Sesame Street are technically called monsters. Zombies are monsters! But what kind of magazine would a zombie look at...

Sketches

My first idea was a warzone on Sesame Street. The cast of Sesame Street would be fighting, either each other or something else.

Then I went onto the idea of numbers vs letters.

Photobomb Project

For our photobomb ad, this is the picture I used (background has been removed).

The original Ad: 

Here is the finished ad. I put in the words "Or snarl like Sam" to add to why I would be on there, even though it kind of made sense otherwise. The ad originally said "Literally," where "Or snarl like Sam" is but I got rid of it to add my line.

Potion Plant Process

I knew almost right away that I wanted to do the potion idea. Too much time spent playing video games. It was kind of a relief because it usually takes me FOREVER to come up with an idea. So from there I did a lot of thinking, and sketched out what I thought would be a great Mana Plant. 

(Plant sketch goes here)

Great place to start out at. Once I got the image traced into paths I started playing with colors and backgrounds. 

This is one of my original designs... Not the first (I think that is on my own computer...) The font I used here was inspired by WoW, it was a look-alike I found awhile ago when I made a banner for my Facebook page. After one of the crits I had opened up the flower more to show more of the bottle in the petals.

This one I experimented with some gradients and fallen petals. I hated the fallen petals, so I quickly got rid of that idea. The gradients dont look too bad, but it wasnt really the style I was looking for. 

Here is some background experimentation. From here I added a pattern in the background. 

The swirl pattern gave me a feeling of magic and power and turbulence and whatnot. I thought it was a very good feeling for magic users.

The drop shadow with the hat in the background came with the addition of the pattern to give it separation from the farther back elements.

After that I had found a new font and put it all together and voila, it was done. On the computer anyway.

There was overflow of the pattern and since Illustrator doesn't have a crop feature like photoshop, I just let it go since it wouldn't print out anyway.

After that I had a great idea for the poison plant so I sketched it out and scanned it in.

Vines surrounding the poison vial, making it hard to get it out. Originally I wanted to put thorns on it too, but that just wasn't in the cards. Haha.

Here it is traced. I wanted a dark purple to contrast with the (what was supposed to be) bright green.

So finished products: 

 Packet front and back

All three seed packet fronts mounted. (Will probably scan this so its better at some point.)