Project 1 - DUSK Philip Glass


The Ideas, Inspiration, and Process: 
I chose to go with some kind of lighting effect from a few drawings I did. When day turns to dusk, you sometimes need a light. I thought something like a lantern, glowing the words DUSK was a really good way for people to remember the name of the album. 

Sketches

 I cannot draw, I pretty much winged it on all of these sketches. These sketches were great to get my mind going, and I think it really helped me decide the main choice for my design.
Sunset

I always think of raccoons coming out at dusk. 

Fred, the gentleman frog

While camping, you start a fire at dusk for dinner. (I was a Girl Scout)

Deer come out at dusk.

Lantern

Drive-In play at dusk

Lighthouse & Lantern

Brainstorming
  1. Sunset
  2. Fade
  3. End
  4. Diminishing
  5. Dark
  6. Horizon
  7. Evening
  8. Twilight
  9. Orange
  10. Red
  11. Gradient
  12. Peaceful
  13. Rest
  14. Cicadas
  15. Frogs
  16. Campfire 
  17. Mountains
  18. Deers
  19. Lake
  20. Ocean
  21. Ships
  22. Lighthouses
  23. Lantern
  24. Glow
  25. Music
  26. Fireflies
  27. Camp songs
  28. Mediatation
  29. Yoga
  30. Drive-In
  31. Girl Scouts
  32. Trumpet
  33. Elephant
  34. Sahara Desert
  35. Bison
  36. Armadillo
  37. Song lyrics
  38. From Dusk til Dawn
  39. Hibernation
  40. Bears
  41. Baseball Games
  42. Fireworks
  43. Summer
  44. Thunderstorms
  45. Mood
  46. Repitation
  47. Movement 
  48. Relaxing
  49. The Lion King
  50. Flag ceremony


 My Inspiration

 Inspiration from my choice came in a few forms:

Lighthouse Light Stock Footage - Shutter Stock

Grand Haven Lighthouse at dusk lighthouses in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan


By Loyd Jack Seely, 1924

This photo was drawn by my papaw when he was 8 years old. He painted it in 1924. While looking at this photo, I thought, 'You know, when it comes to ships on the ocean, when day turns to dusk and into the night, what do they look for when it comes to guiding them home or to shore?'
Image result for Disney's snow white dwarfs lantern
Disney's Tangled

I looked at a bunch of things when it came to lanterns or lights.
The Process

 A lighthouse or lantern became my primary inspiration for this project. I began to draw, thinking one of these will be the main focal point of the front of the postcard. 
Lantern I redrew before deciding on drawing.

Grid lines; my best friend while drawing.

Not too shabby for my first attempt. 

 After cleaning up the lines and darkening a bit, I went to Photoshop, scanned the image and cleaned it up some more for the post card
After working on Photoshop on the sketch for x amount of time.

 Next, I needed to work some more on Photoshop to make this all come together. I placed the drawing onto my canvas on Photoshop and began visualizing. I placed a gradient of sunset colors, added water, and land.
Gradient

 I worked with the sky to create realistic looking clouds as best as I could with Photoshop. After fighting with different brushes, opacity, colors, and masks, I was finally satisfied with the clouds and the sky.
Sky with clouds.

 Next, I worked a little on the water, land, and sand. I placed noise, a stylize effect called wind and used the burn brush to help make the water look more realistic. 

Water, sand, and land.

 I then began to paint the lighthouse on a seperate layer. I thought the colors I chose looked like a few lighthouses I have seen in my life. 
Darker grey on the side where the light house is not directly to the sunset.

 For the album name, I wanted to do a beacon of light where the words DUST would shadowing in, as if someone was holding something up to the light to give a shadow effect, or the words were the light surrounded by the sky.
I had this idea when the original concept was still a lantern.

 To do this, I used the Shape tool and very carefully transformed it using the Free Transform tools on Photoshop: Skew, Perspective, and Warp. I also moved the light house a smidge.
Beacon of light.
At this time, I thought my post card looked great so it was time to move it to InDesign and finish the rest of the postcard on there. I worked on DUSK in InDesign, trying to make my vision come alive. I was able to get each letter into the mode to where I could manipulate and transform. I chose the font called Into the Grid for DUSK. I thought it had a good bold font that made you focus on the word and my vision.
Dusk
Finally for the front, I chose the font Steelfish for Philip Glass' name. It's a basic font that I have used in the past. I added his name, worked with the spacing a tad and applied a night outer glow, not too bright, but I didn't want to go with the whole basic color. 

Voila!

 For the back I wanted to do a spotlight look on the back, where either it was centered or the light of the spotlight was on the right. I decided the second option was more doable and would look better.
Decisions, decisions.
To do this I used the Rectangle Frame Tool and placed it on the entire background and changed the color to black. Lowering the opacity to 90%
Background

 After that, I added a Ellipse Frame Tool and changed the color to white.
Ellipse

 I added the track titles, the release date, EMI vector logo, and the stamp square. The font I used was once again Steelfish. 
Back of Postcard
Saved and finished! 


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