JULY CONTEST: Design a book cover for the Wizard of Oz
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@JoshuaDages Thank you so much! I really love the green glow of everything and the texture on your piece, it just makes it feel like there is something beyond !
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@JessicaStauffer LOVE the tin man and the Lions posture!
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@Ross-Cuellar-0 Thank you! I took the gesture drawing and character design classes SVS has and they helped me soooo much with the design/movement in the characters. I was really happy with how they turned out!
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Rachel Penman
www.rachelpenman.co.uk(it was on the image...no idea where it went!!)
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@JessicaStauffer Thank you!
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Here's my post for the July contest. It was a challenge working with such an iconic piece of literature. It was tough trying to avoid the original aesthetic, not to mention the movie's influence. I'm still very new to this, so definitely a good challenge for me.
These are the gifts (in the book) given by the Wizard: a silk heart filled with sawdust for the Tin Man, a scoop of bran filled with pins and needles ("bran new brains") for the Scarecrow, and a bottle of "courage" potion for the Lion. (Also, Dorothy's shoes are silver in the book.) All these things were just substitutes for the real gifts acquired along the journey on the yellow brick road... love, wisdom, courage, and a way home. Hope you enjoy!
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@Quackamos itβs so cute!!!! This looks like it could be the cover of a comics
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@jdubz ha! this is a fun one. Maybe instead of βMissingβ you could write βDepartedβ, The Departed Wizard of Oz.
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@Nyrryl-Cadiz Ohhh I like that. I had like 5 words I was trying to figure out and I replaced Vanishing with Missing... I think I like Departed more. Didn't even occur to me
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@jdubz this is really good, great use of shadow. I wonder how strict the judges will be about changing the brief. It's a great portfolio piece either way, and that's the main goal at the end of the day. Love the dark castle on right too.
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I don't know if they'll judge based on the spec, but my opinion is that it's disrespectful not to follow them. They would have intended us to follow them or they wouldn't have written them. You wouldn't do this with an actual client would you?
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@deborah-Haagenson yes that's what I thought, I assumed Jake's intention was to create a more realistic brief as if we were working for a client, so I've stuck to the specs. But if it doesn't align with the market people want to work for, I guess it makes more sense to create something more specific to their portfolio aims. I wonder if solutions that don't fit the brief will be considered in the final 16.
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@deborah-Haagenson Well, Jake did give use creative freedom
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@Eric-Droke Love your unique concept, attention to the details of the original story and final illustration! Looks very intriguing and professional.