I used my top three ideas from the six preliminary sketches, starting by getting those sketches into illustrator. Cats Cradle was a piece of cake because all I had to do was draw the cat and choose a font. Think Tank took a bit longer because I had to trace over an image of a tank, pick out two fonts, toy with the idea of having an inner circle and realize at the last second that a radial gradient would make it look better, and redo everything after the 3D text crashed illustrator. Space Eye however took the longest merely because I didn't have a clear idea for it to begin with, and it was almost impossible to get enough detail into it without adding color or overcomplicating the image. Overall though I have to say, I'm very pleased with my work.
For this project I had originally intended to try for something video game related, but as most of the images I was coming up with were too two-dimensional, I decided music would be a pretty decent fallback. The beauty of it is that I didn't even have to find this image, it's one that I've used before. This piano is the very same one I placed on the album art for one of my favorite compositions, the name of which is on the lid in the calligram. The rest of the words are either musical terms, descriptions, or composers and pieces I admire.
