We were all allocated a particular christmas number 1 hit which we had to illustrate in the form of a christmas card. The brief was pretty open other than that we had to incorporate both the card and it's envelope, and our main colour theme had to consist of Forest green and Mint green.
My allocated song was Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas is You'.
Being such a painfully cliched and cheesy christmas song, I wanted to take my card away from that and not include the usual iconography of christmas.
By deconstructing the lyrics a little, I realised that they fit really well with the idea of a woman in her final stages of pregnancy at Christmas time. Here's my initial notes on the lyrics sheet I was given so you can see a little clearer where I'm coming from...
So, I began testing out different combinations of the colours and playing around with ideas. Luckily I'd been to the Huntarian Museum earlier in the week and had drawn a few foetuses that they have in the jars there, so I had some reference material to go by.
And so I decided on what I was going to do. The outside of the card would be the mothers belly, with her hands supporting it, and inside the card would be the foetus, almost like you're opening up her belly to see him, the way I'm sure she wishes she could. The outside of the envelope would have an illustration of the line 'holding on to me so tight' which I love. Babies have a very tight grip, so I decided that I'd draw the simple but powerful image of the baby holding his mothers finger.
I think the project turned out successful. Overall feedback from the group and the 3rd years was very good. So without further ado, here's the final images. I appologise for the creasing of the last image. It's not that bad in person, it's just the scanner picked it up quite badly.
The first two images were done using fine liner and promarkers. The last image was done on photoshop, with fine liner drawn over.
All in all, I'm very happy with the result. :)
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