I loved the creative assignments for this week's class. I decided to do the Four Icon Story assignment, as well as the Alternate Book Cover. As I worked on these, it was interesting to think about how images can tell a story, in some cases, almost as well as words. For example, take a look at my #4iconstory:
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Did you guess The Little Prince?
I chose one of my favorite books, The Little Prince, by Antoine De Saint-Exupery. My four icons are a crashing plane (from the beginning of the story), a crown (for the Little Prince), a rose (for his beloved rose), and a snake (for the sad, but meaningful, ending of the story). This was so much fun, although challenging, to come up with four icons to summarize the key elements of a story. To me, the story is quite obvious, but that's because it was my idea. I knew the elements, so the icons make perfect sense. We shall see if anyone guesses correctly.
Once I created my #4iconstory, I had a brilliant idea for the alternate book cover assignment. I'm going to wait until tomorrow (Wednesday) to tweet it out because it gives away the answer to my icon riddle, but, without further ado, I present to you:
Just a slight spin on the original, no? As for alchemical elements, I merged two ideas, The Little Prince, and Game of Thrones to create a new masterpiece. I entertain myself.
I used pixlr.com to create this book cover, and it was decently comparable to Photoshop. It took me some time to work with my buggy laptop, but I'm quite pleased with the end result.
Isn't it interesting how a slight twist changes an entire story? This assignment made me think of a video that went around a while back:
Funny how music changes so much!
The icon story only seems obvious in hindsight- I always fail at guessing. I just adore how you wove the Little Prince into both assignments, that's brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of my first professional job and my director (and mentor) gave me a copy of the book, which seemed unconnected at first to my work. Until I read it; Naomi was wanted me to draw some of the lessons about people and society, especially (I almost feel funny saying it) what the fox said.
Fantastic creative and reflective work this week!