Illustration Class Results

The semester is broken up differently in Germany than it is at my University: Lectures are optional, there are no quizzes, tests or homework. Assignments are optional and you can decide at the end of the semester if you really want credit for a class. This is a drawing and illustration class that I took. At the beginning at the semester, the professor presented us with the two projects we needed to complete. The first, was to illustrate a city, and the second (owl) was to illustrate a German poem. The poem, as you can see from the image was about an owl. The owl told a songbird not to sing to the sun, because the sun is not important. The song bird quits singing and everything goes black.

In short, this poster is a poem illustration. The poem is written on the bottom.

These next two images show my solution to the city project. The first image shows on of 51 images. I walked a specific route in the city I was living, sketched the area, and then transfered the sketch into a book by cutting the images out. The result is seen below. It's difficult to show the way this book really works in a picture, because this book is a 3D experiential piece. Not being able to "play" with the book will not allow you to fully understand it. Much like a city: you can see a city in pictures, but without actually being there, you will never get a good understanding of the space that is a city.

This is the book cover, just the front half. The whole book cover shows an eye. The pupil resembles a camera lens, while the map behind the iris simulates the white of the eye, the streets on the map simulating the blood veins in an eye.