Ideas are flowing..

I found quite a few record labels and pictures of Jimi Hendrix that inspired me to take my initial idea of having a silhouetted imaged of someone with a fro and expand on that. 

I really liked the use of type to create the silhouetted image of Hendrix in this pictures. I am going to search for a very retro typeface to download and use as the outline for Hendrix. I want to use one of the photos of him smoking as a reference so I can have the smoke coming out of his mouth as well. 

I also talked about having a retro 70s background with wild psychedelic colors in the background behind the silhouette. 

I like all three of these images but the last one especially gave me quite a bit of inspiration. I plan on creating a textural painting with these crazy colors to put in the background. I hope to have the smoke coming from his mouth fade into the background by putting it in crazy psychedelic colors as well. I am extremely excited to make some further leeway on this project now that I have more in store for it than the pinup shoots/style I have set up and planned. 

I was reading about dead zones for another idea for my info graphics ocean pollution project. I really want to depict fish in gas masks since essentially dead zones aren't able to produce enough oxygen for the ocean life to survive in areas where they exist. I saw a picture online of a fish with a gas mask on and I thought it was brilliant. It's straight forward and to the point and visually gets the point across while catching someone's attention. 

Another option is to use skulls and crossbones and things such as that to get the point across visually a dead zone literally means the ocean life cannot live in that area. 

Fros and picks

I am currently working on sketching out and vectoring out a silhouetted person with a fro and a pick to depict a 70's feel for the retro project. I am going to use psychedelic colors to depict the 70s feel further.

 I ordered some pin up clothes for a shoot for this weekend and have myself and another girl to model for photoshoots that I have set up for the pin up style feel. One of the shoots I want to do an army type pin up feel as inspired by this album cover:

I am going to borrow a trumpet from my friend who is a music major and I have a pin up army costume that is very retro. I am going to play around with making the photos look old/retro after I take them and and vectoring them out to give the album cover a cartoon feel to see what looks better.

Also I am continuing the research and art work for the info graphics project. I am going through with working on having an outline of texas filled with trash as well has having a chart of algae in comparison to amount of plastic in the ocean.

I am currently working on doing research for the infographics and retro projects for our design classes. Some of the things that I am going to do with the infographics are more than likely going to include charts. I am thinking that with the ratio of plastic to algae being so crazy in certain parts of the ocean that is what one of the infographics will be like. I will have that one as a bar chart showing the bottles of plastic compared to the algae. of plastic compared to the algae. Here is an infographic that uses the 

chart method that I am going to use. 

I am still doing more research for the retro project. I do know that I would probably like for one of the items to have an 80s feel to it and another one a disco style feel. I am still going to do the pin up girl for one as well. I plan on doing a photoshoot and getting photographic references that I can vector out for my pin up girl model/cartoon.