The Great Orange Face

(P.S I fixed the spelling errors) 

 It is clear that she is being forced to sell out so that developers can convert the historic building into apartments. To reveal this through my fold-in, I began by referring to the original article where 13 police officers stormed in to the bar in response to one single noise complaint. I used the tagline “This little piggy went to the market” as the folded punch line. The developer appears to be shaking hands with Maureen to finalise the “agreement”.  However when unfolded, “Market” transforms to “Marvel at Auckland’s music culture casket”. This refers to the dent in Auckland’s music culture that will occur once the King’s Arm’s shuts down. The body text refers to the sudden immediate attention to noise complaints. The illustration then reveals the police officers, suggesting they’re in collaboration with the developers that have pressured Maureen to sell. 

Last night I had a few issues.... Starting with the canvas size. I used the canvas size provided on stream to process my final illustration and then when I went to put the text in, I realised the canvas size was waaaay off. It was way too small. So I had to fix my entire composition. Luckily a lot of my line work were still vectors from illustrator, however I had to do ALL my colour work again. And I did have to fix the line work on the kings arms building as well. Luckily I got it all done. If this hadn't have happened, I would have been able to add more detail into the background and foreground. But over all I’m pretty happy with it anyway. 

Todays #wip Playing around with layout and text. I’m struggling to alter the layout and still have the illustration work as a foldin. I’ll continue to play around with it tomorrow but this is what I have at the moment. I decided to bring the characters forwards a bit more because they were getting lost in the illustration. I pushed the building back to free up some space because the illustration was starting to feel too clustered. I saved both versions just incase I changed my mind later though. The colour palette was chosen because it’s the colours from the kings arms tavern. But I’m wanting to change it I think... I’m just getting sick of looking at these colours. 

Timelapse video of my colouring and character development 

Timelapse of the building development

I’ve also gone through and made the outline of the silhouettes thicker to make them pop out. 

I’ve decided to hand draw my characters and then scan them in and reline them in illustrator. I watched a few tutorials on how to adjust and edit the brushes in illustrator to allow for organic brush strokes so that it has a hand drawn feel to it. 

Sketches trying to map out the logistics of the fold in. How can I freshen up the layout? Maureen's outfit and characteristics? What does a nz police uniform looks like?

Work in progress

I decided to look up “Sketchy concert posters” and I found an artist called Michael Hacker.He uses quite a cool sketchy poppet two/tri-tone colour palette. So using texture and detail to really give the body of the image. The text is really punchy and often binds in with the illustration really well. Super graphicy with bold outlines and texture etched in. Some of them almost look like they could have been woodcuts. I really like this style. I guess it doesn’t really suit my design currently, but I could test it out to see how I could make it work. Because I feel as though the concert/punk pop art style would be suitable to the topic of the article. 

Also, because of the small music scene, it means that if you’re really good, you stick out among others. Which makes it easier to get to the top. However staying here won’t make you money. 

The Tavern also made it to the top music venues in the country. “The city’s premiere rock ‘n’ roll venue

The Kings Arms Tavern Auckland has been the proud supporter of local musicians for decades, mainly of those engaged with rock sounds. Located in Newton, this live venue offers its stage very often at any day of the week to young and upcoming bands in an almost ritual manner. The Kings Arms Tavern is a unique combination of a live dark venue with a sunny beer garden at the back and a front bar with screens, broadcasting live sports, food and drinks.

Gigs that are booked for the “Kings Arm’s Tavern” over the next year go right up to October.

It's cute indoor area has hosted a number of local and international bands and is always a perfect spot to catch up with friends over a cold one. Sadly it may soon be gone to make way for new development, so enjoy it while you can.