Week 9: Radio First Draft

Craft

After scanning in the drawing, I started by using the pen tool to create the box shapes of the buildings, then I made another box over some of the "buildings" where the radio display would be. I then subtracted the top box from the bottom box to create an opening using the pathfinder tool. The display instruments were drawn in with the line tool, using the shift key for straightness. The rocket was drawn with the pen tool, and smoke's outline was drawn with the pencil tool, and then filled in with an area made by the pen tool. The soundwaves were drawn with the pen tool and have a stroke on them, as does the rocket. The buildings were made to be transparent to let the drawing detail through. The background was drawn with the pen tool, avoiding the buildings since they are transparent, and also avoiding the giant speaker because I felt that illustrating it would take away from its understanding that it is a speaker. The background color was produced with a two color gradient.

Concept

The concept was to allow some of the drawing to be shown through to help maintain the understanding of what some of the objects were. The concept that represents "the escape from ordinary radio" here is a rocket ship, representing the escape, blasting off, leaving the ordinary radios making up a skyline, and then traveling to extraordinary radio made up of giant speakers with soundwaves in space. This takes two things that are typically known to be ordinary and extraordinary and illustrates them as radio. The skyline made up of the old radios is the everydary, whereas the planet, made up of a giant speaker with soundwaves, to look like a planet with rings, is the out of this world.

Composition

I think in this composition, the viewer is attracted to the white smoke in the middle and the clarity of the buildings is lost. The sketch of the giant speaker looks odd against the colored background.