American Idiot Cover

The Cover

American Idiot Cover


The cover for American Idiot is shown left.

I did this a couple of months ago, and not really got any feedback on it or even really spoke about it.  So here it goes.

The silhouette is the main character, I decided to go down the silhouette route for the cover to show a certain level of mystery about the story and to show that the character doesn't really know where he is mentally and the story really shows off the roller coaster ride.

The vertical American flag is a reference to the Green Day music video 'American Idiot.' I decided to make the flag red to elaborate the love story that goes on in the book between 'Whatsername' and the main character.  The grunge is to retain the dirty messy style of contemporary Green Day/American Idiot artwork but I did it in a way that it has my own twist on it, with the tops of buildings at the bottom.

I'm unsure about the Typeface, it seems not full enough, if that makes sense, maybe because it appears grainy.  But it seems to fit.  I chose it because its the Typeface used on the album cover, however, part of me doesn't agree with it, I'm a funny git when it comes to type.  It takes me ages to find something that works and when I do find something that looks OK, I'm a little unsure.

Feedback welcome.  Destroy me.

JT

The Weekend...

The weekend for most is the time of week everybody looks forward to, unless you work in retail and work stupid hours..

For me, its the most uninspiring time of the week with a 7 o'clock and an 8 o'clock start on Sunday and Saturday.  It's depressing.  Most of the time I can hardly find the energy to get motivated to do a little Uni work, which at this time of the year is absolutely vital I do at least an hour or two a night.  But again Sunday afternoon/evening I find myself just staring at it, briefly glancing at one or two popular social networking sites, finding it really difficult to get motivated and even started sometimes.

Lets hope over the next 2 weeks I can find that  motivation, because with deadlines approaching thick and fast. I'm going to need to.

JT

Subject

Just a quick one to say this blogg will be based mainly in my University studies.

Cheers

JT

DeadLines

dead·line

 

–noun

1.

the time by which something must be finished or submitted;the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clockdeadline.

2.

a line  or limit that must not be passed.

3.

(formerly) a boundary around a military prison beyondwhich a prisoner could not venture without risk of being shotby the guards.

With only a few weeks left of my Major Project and final Project and major projects left (PANIC!!!) and always having looked over what I have to do and hopefully this time not leave it till the last minute, I wonder?  Ya see I always miss calcualate print times and printers let me down. But not this time, I WILL finish these projects comfortably and get a good grade, that is my vow.

My Major project is to take 10 sonnets from William Shakespeares mammoth sonnet list and create a sort of book of some sorts out of them, really starting to regret picking this project, (lost count of how many times I have said that), I just find them sometimes somewhat repeated of what the last one said.  If you examine each one and take the main points out of them you can't possibly have more than 20 sonnets there, instead of the ridiculous 154.  However, I am taking shakespeares vintage style and giving it a special Jack Taylor 2011 makeover, should look good when I'm finished with it, and I'll stick to the old saying, if I get a C. I'm happy.

My final project on the other hand is a Graphic Noveli'sation of the Green Day concept album American Idiot, I have not drawn the graphic novel I have however used photography and the quite legendary software 'Photoshop,' to create a unique looking backdrop and I think the story (when its finished) will tell the story of American Idiot quite well and will fill in the gaps that the album left, I also used inspriation from the stage show also.  I have approximately 28 pages to this project, which is alot of work and probably to much but as the saying goes, you can never have enough work eh?

So thats where I'm at, the projects will come and I believe the amount of work I did in the first part of this project has sort of lifted the weights a little bit, but I'm still scared, which goes to show it doesnt matter how much time and effort you put into your work, any sign of a deadline and your stomach drops and you get scared stiff.

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