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.