posters

So we had another class exercise, and we created pieces based on another person's description of their projects. Sarinah painted a melancholy Munch-like portrait for my project. It was a child's face made out of two parents linking hands. And with these pieces created for us by our friends, we had to make posters for ourselves by adapting them in some way.

I did away with the actual painting, lovely as it was, and used Sarinah's compositing idea to redraw the balloon child:
(click picture to enlarge) The parents make up the face of the child. The cheesy slogan was a temporary filler.
These are the kind of illustrations I like to do most: smaller pictures within the big picture, hidden stories and obvious stories.

The bird is the balloon child's friend, who the balloon is afraid of getting close to at first because of its sharp beak. The balloon child is almost like the bird, just that it is tied down with a string. When it is ready to have its string cut, the bird comes back to help it with its beak.