Final Portfolio - One example of my best set of thumbnail color comps

Ok, so I will be completely honest here.

I suck at thumbnails.

I have trouble brainstorming at such an early level. I can make my decisions much better, in my opinion, after I have already started working. 

I do see the benefit though, no doubt. If you use them enough they would be a huge help in the preliminary decision making process.

Social Dancing

I think I am satisfied with my final design and layout here. I like the fact that I left the background white considering the content. Seems more... elegant... to me, if we are going to play the stereotypical gender roles I think elegant is appropriate.

My graphic at the top of my first page was too narrow but Rusty hooked me up with some useful tips. I extended it in Photoshop with the clone stamp.

The shoe on the second page was a small, solid graphic in the maker comp, but I went rogue and changed it to the background, transparent, visual texture that you see before you.

And again on Rusty's advice I put the "Art Or Sport" header on the second page, which I definitely approve of. It's effective in tying the two pages together as well as adding some color to page two.

In both headlines I took colors from my graphic on page one.

I'm not convincing myself with the text wrap around the "g" in the page one headline.

Marceline

I actually had a little bit of fun re-creating the Disney graphics. I like to work in Illustrator the most out of all the Adobe programs so fat. I recreated Mickey, Mickey's head, and Donald. Then used the other photos from the provided folder. 

I always seem to have trouble fitting in the copy even after my attempts at copy fitting. 

If I use this at all in my portfolio, I know I will adjust the text in the quote box by Donald's head.

Dancing Thumbnails

I will be doing the sideways layout in the top right of the picture. I will ad some more color in the headings, pictures, etc.

Car Ad

I decided to use a 64.5 Mustang because it was the car my grandpa had and loved and since I don't pay much attention to cars, it's the only one I've ever actually wanted. So I used it. My concept was the fact that Ford made a 64 Mustang, sold too many, and made more in the middle of the year because of the demand, thus 64.5. So I went with that as a selling point. I only used a partial view of the car and the logo so I could maintain their sizes and still leave room for my text. I had trouble choosing a font and in the end chose a simple, legible one.

*Edit* I also used a white border on the printed version with the "64.5" coming out a little for depth and to solve the bleed issue.

Chili Willie

I kind of liked creating the cow. After printing I felt the poster still needed more black but I'm honestly not sure how I would do that.

Side note: I had a literal case of "my dog ate my homework" with my black foam core mounted version thus I did not turn in a mounted version. I did bring to class a flush mounted on white foam core taped with green painter's tape, although I made the decision not to put that up for display.