R E P O R T By Karianne Haraldseide I N T R O D U C T I O N 300ppi and3mmbleed.” 210 x300mm,witharesolution of The illustration must beintheformat the poster. There isnoopportunitytousetextin music. tion toaddanewdimensionthe songs. The clientwishestheillustra (Illustrator) basedononeoftheir illustration withvector elements You are toproduce aphotobased are free tochoosethemusic. presentation ofonetheirsongs.You contacted you and wantavisualre ”A musician/group /orchestra have The Assignment - - Poison
Poison was formed in 1984 in Pennsylvania. The band originally started in 1983, with the name Paris, but changed it in 1984 to Poison. The hard-rock band had huge sucess in the 1980s and 1990s. There is no doubt that there were a lot of glam going on at that time. They were what we call a ”Glam Rock-Band”.
I chose the song ”Every Rose Has Its Thorn” by the band Poison.
The lyrics is inspired by a true event wich happened to the lead singer Bret Michaels, in 1988. Bret Michaels was on tour with his band, when he began to long for his girlfriend at home. He decided to call her, but the conversation ended quickly when he heard another man´s voice in the background. The very next day, the song ”Every Rose Has Its Thorn” where written, inspired by that phone call. L y r i c s
We both lie silently still Every rose has its thorn In the dead of the night Just like every night has it’s dawn Although we both lie close together Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song We feel miles apart inside Every rose has its thorn Was it something I said or something I did Did my words not come out right Though it’s been a while now Though I tried not to hurt you I can still feel so much pain Though I tried Like the knife that cuts you the wound heals But I guess that’s why they say But the scar, that scar remains I know I could have saved our love that night Every rose has its thorn If I’d known what to say Just like every night has it’s dawn Instead if making love Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song We both made our separate ways Every rose has its thorn Now he found somebody new And that I never meant that much to you Yeah it does To hear that tears me up inside I listen to your favorite song And to see you cuts me like a knife Playing on the radio Hear the DJ say love’s a game of easy come and easy go I guess every rose has its thorn But I wonder does he know Just like every night has it’s dawn Has it ever felt like this Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song And I know that you’d be here right now Every rose has its thorn If I could have let you know somehow I guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjKl0z7ZnX4 Inspiration & Interpretation
The life on tour has been told to be crazy, with drinking, women and drugs. There are many stories about their life, like the one who ended up in song about a heartbreak. There have been rumors and accusations that the singer, Bret Mic- haels has been unfaithful up to several times to the woman he claimed cheating on him. Illustration
”Why would he then be that heartbroken by the cheating?” I decided to take a photo of a woman with a rose in her hand, fading away. That would present the contents of the text well. Both the wo- ”Is it allowed on tour?” man fading away and the red rose are important elements in the text.
The lyrics of the song is heartbreaking, the person He had her, but now she is slipping away. in the song is clearly heartbroken and struggles to get through it. The black and white color on the background, makes the colored rose clearly visible, which I meant was important with this illustration. W O R K P R O C E S S album. albums. What stylerecur from albumto I have looked atseveral oftheirprevious it. gone. The personstruggles togetthrough have it,love it,butthenextmomentitis The songisclearlyaboutaheartbreak. You hours. Rose HasItsThorn” hasbeenonrepeat for and read thelyricsseveral times.”Every for photos,storiesaboutthememberslife For inspiration I have searched the internet Inspiration Methods use awomanintheilliustration. the love. Iwantedtousethebackstoryforlyricsand a manwhohasbeenunfaithful,andthe woman longsfor who cheatedonBret Michaels.The textreveals thatitis The otherelementImeantwasimportantthewoman as clearlypossibleintheillustration. The rose isthemostimportantelement,thathadtocome to have intheillustration. There were certainelementsthat Imeantwasimportant make itmyown. dy had,butatthesametimedosomethingdifferent and with notext?Iwantedtostay true tothestyletheyalrea the mainpointasclearpossibleoutinanillustration I startedoutwithahugebrain storming.HowcouldIget Creative Methods - M O O D B O A R D Illustrator Pictures during the process
I started out with a photo of a woman holding a rose.
To make the photo an illustration and not a photograph, I decided to make a polygonal illustrati- on.
To make a polygonal illustration you have to use the pen tool and create triangles all over the photo. I wanted to get as much details as I could get from the photo, so I created very small triangles around the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.
The next step was to fill all the triangles with colours. The layers ”BLACK” and I carefully chose colors using the eyedropper tool. ”WHITE” were used in order to get more details from the I decided not to use the polygonal effect on the rose, photo when i traced it. I wanted it to be like the origonal photo. This in order to make the rose stand out in the final result.
The last thing I did in illustrator was to make the background white.
While working in illustrator I really saw the advantage of using ”layers”. Photoshop Pictures during the process
Most of the work were already done in illustrator. Altough there were a few steps I had to do in photoshop.
The first thing I did was to mark the whole photo, except the rose, with the magic wand tool.
The next step was to make the photo black and white. Because I did not mark the rose with the magic wand tool, the rose was still colored.
After getting the picture black and white, I went in and changed the con- trast and brightness of the photo. I wanted the effect of that the woman was fading away. I increased the percentage of brightness considerably and reduced the contrast.
The rose also faded away in the step above, so I had to mark the rose with the magic wand and increase the contrast, and at the same time lower the brightness. Sketches and Training D E S I G N disappear. The positioningof therose was alsovery important. Itcouldeasily I alsowantedthephoto tobecentered. would disappear. the womanfillholepage.Withalotof background, thewoman woman lessclear, andtherefor Imeantthatit wasimportanttomake man infocus.Becauseoftheeffect ”Fading away”, itwould make the I wantedthewomantofillwholepage. This inorder togetthewo Composituion, Layout andGrid painfull rose withitsthorns. that isleftred rose, the fade away, slowlyandpainfully. All the personseesitslove ofitslife in several ways. Oneofthemisthat away inthephoto canbeinterpreted The factthatthewomanisfading ever again. you cannever bewiththatperson the personhurtyou, andyou know You crave forapersonsobad,but I have chosen”Hopelessness”. Style/Genre - contrast decreased. brightness wasincreased andthe contrast togettherighteffect. The I alsohadtoeditthebrighnessand very clearlywithblackandwhitefilter. rose. The effect offadingaway came had tostandout,soIkept thecolored illustration. Iwantedthered rose, it ended upwithablackandwhite After tryingdifferent colorediting,I brightness andcontrast were good. illustration, itpoppedupandthe hoped. Iliked therose inthis come through thatmuch thatIhad was areally important effect, didnot effect offadingaway, whichi meant illustration. Iinstantlythoughtthatthe First Imadeacolored Colors S O U R C E S fRID=1CVMKEDN224R25C7ZH2R B000FIMHIU/ref=pd_bxgy_15_img_3?ie=UTF8&re http://www.amazon.com/Flesh-Blood-POISON/dp/ Open_Up_and_Say_Ahh_Cover.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/ poison_band_logo.jpg https://bandlogos.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ commons/2/2c/Poison.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ http://quotelicious.com/quotes/heartbreak-quotes real-life-rock-of-ages/197269 http://www.eonline.com/photos/5433/hair-bands- te-background&large=1 php?image=77435&picture=red-rose-on-whi http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image. ted-on-white-background/ http://macrophotoz.com/side-of-red-rose-isola html http://www.theglamnationnetwork.com/poison. Has-Its-Thorn/master/94315 https://www.discogs.com/Poison-Every-Rose- Pictures - - - thorn-lyrics-poison.html http://www.metrolyrics.com/every-rose-has-its- https://haraldseide.wordpress.com biography http://www.billboard.com/artist/344337/poison/ thorn-0806415 songs-20140205/6-poison-every-rose-has-its- readers-poll-the-10-greatest-hair-metal- http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/ http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6131 Link ReflectedJournal Research