Hello, everyone!


This time as well, I'm going to show you what I designed, and its process of creating it here.

The theme for this design I'm about to show you  is " Greed."


First, the direction, and core idea for this design were decided by mapping the several ideas.

I connected those ideas in the picture above by associating with the words from "greed."

Then I marked the ideas that I liked, so that I can look back later when I'm lost in making it.

I'm concerned that you might not be able to see the picture clearly, so here are the words that will be the core idea for the design.

• make an effort → craziness
• focus → make it very clear → black and white → black swan → ballet

                                                                                     → 007: James Bond → Gun → Blood

Then I made those designs based on the ideas above.

(starts from up left to the right bottom)

It finally feels good when I made the design where the ballerina is put on the spot light, and there is audience.
Then I started the process on the laptop.

The first thing which came up was this.

Just in case you're wondering, the inspiration for the chair comes from Palsis Garnier, which is an opera house in Paris, France.

( I just found it beautiful on Google. There is no particular reason.)

Next thing I did was to blurred the thing around the person sitting in the centre in order to express the sense of immersion.

Also I thought that it would be a little strange if there was only one person watching the ballet concert, so I put more people there. ( In addition to it, I can blur the people, so that there will be more sense of immersion.)

It's getting there...

From this point, I need to do several adjustments.

- I made a white stroke thinner from the bottom to the up.

- Also the blurring is added more, and more as it goes up from the bottom.

- The white stroke of the chair in the center cut in the middle to express the sense of the immersion more.

- I moved things in the design to adjust the balance of the location.

Then this came up.

I felt that it was almost there, but I knew there was something missing to make it complete.

I was looking for a way to express the craziness. ( the word that I came up with when mapping.)

This was the note below where I struggled with how to put the idea of craziness in the design.

Putting something floating,  zig zag pattern around the person in the centre, or those below were the ideas that I thought would be good.

By putting the lines in the random locations, I thought that it would describe the immersion somehow. Although those ideas turned out to be not great.

While thinking of how to do it, somehow I thought that it would be great to try out the Instagram's filter. And it turned out to be great!

Greed is to get you close to the perfection. Inspired by a ballerina in Melbourne . . . . . . . . . . #greed #dream #ballet #perfect #instinct #hieronymusbosch #7deadlysins #melbourne #australia #tak #graphic #design #art #inkscape #adobe #illustration #illustrator #like4likes #l4l

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I'm  satisfied with how it is.
There are other designs that I did on my Instagram page. It would be great if you check them out.
If you enjoy this, please like this, or follow me. It helps me a lot to keep going.

See you in the next post!

DESIGN IDEA FOR EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

Hi, everyone!

This is Tak here.

Today, I'd like to go through my process of making a design for Empire State Building.

Let's get started!

First, I came up with this idea below.

It's safe to say that one of the most famous for New York is Empire State Building, and I wanted to put it in my next design.
Therefore, I put Empire, and other buildings, and traffic road circling around those buildings.
You can see it up in the picture I put above.

Also there are several kinds of cars running on the road. (Picture below)

For the final form, the blueish light, and huge "New York" are put in.

BUT it turned out that this wasn't really good I thought it would be.

So I decided to make the completely new design from scratch.

The thing I wanted to keep was simplicity, and Empire State Building.

Considering those, this came up in mind.

The very close-up image of Empire State Building, and Golden ratio.
For those of you who don't know what Golden ratio is, Google explains below.

Here you are. To make it simple, by using this, the design looks nicer than the one without it.

After some attempts, the basic line is finished.

Next, color.

Those are the pictures inspiring color.

The first one is from the game called "ABUZ."

The second one is from the random picture I found on Google.

By putting those colours in, and doing a little adjustment, it looks like this.

This came very real to a point where I wanted it to be.

This took 30 hours for me to finish this.

I put my Instagram page. It would be great if you could give me Like, or comment. It encourages me to keep going.

https://www.instagram.com/logodexa/

Empire State Building. One of my favorites. It's beautiful, and I hope I did a good job to describe its beauty. #tak #empirestatebuilding #skyscraper #yellow #color #window #beautiful #sky #nyc #5thavenue . . . . . . . . . . . #graphic #design #inkscape #art #l4l #like4likes

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Idea for poster for La La Land

Hello everyone!

This is  Tak who's a graphic designer for a hobby for now.

And I decided to make this diary, thinking this may help me, and others to understand how to come up with ideas, compose them, and finish the product.

With that being said, let's get started!


This time I made a poster for La La Land.



First idea looks like this below.

This is the famous cut from the movie, where Sebastian, and Mia dances together for the first time.
I wanted to make a poster from this cut, making this image very simple by using circles to draw everything in it.

It didn't work out much, and also I thought this cut only didn't do enough job.

So the next idea was to put together the scenes which was impressive for me during the movie.

In the picture above, I listed up the scenes from the movie, and decided to put which scenes in which part.

Next, detail on those pictures.

< Up Left >

< Up Right >

< Down Left >

< Down Right >

For background for those images above, I put the circles there, making it simple, and more LA-ish.

Next thing is colour.

The inspiration of the colour for those image came from those those.

Bunch of umbrellas for the scene where Mia, and Sebastian are talking at the cafe

Backpack for the scene where Mia is singing at the audition

A umbrella for the scene where Sebastian is singing on the bride

And when all those come in together, it looks like this.

I'm not sure if I did a good job explaining the process of finishing this graphic art, but I hope you enjoy this blog.

If you enjoy reading, or want to read something more like this article, please give me a Like or a comment on this blog, or my Instagram feed. It encourages me to keep posting a lot.

A poster for "La La Land" #lalaland #emmastone #ryangosling #color #tak . . . . . . . . . . . . #graphic #design #art #inkscape #l4l #likeforlike

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