Once you pop you just can't stop...

Today I was going to try and learn how to do something completely new, but fell back into the whole pop art design element. First thing I did when I woke up, was create a pop art can of Red Bull, a 21st Century version of Andy Warhol's classic Campbell soup. The final product looked like this:

I'm planning on expanding this into a series, changing colours around and repeating the image over and over again, as Warhol first did with Coke bottles and Marilyn Monroe, the coke bottle series being a commentary on consumerism, the Monroe series depicting the idea of celebrity and idolisation, how these celebrities can live on through the media and are never forgotten. However, this backfired on Warhol somewhat ironically, as his prints of Monroe became incredibly famous and iconic as well.

Making a series of these Red Bull cans would be a comment on consumerism as well, but if anything, it's a comment on my own consumption of energy drinks. I had a big bottle of Tesco Kx again today, accompanied by fuck knows how many coffees.

Moving on, I then decided to offer to do design work for people on Facebook, posting a status asking if anyone wanted a picture edited of them at all. The trouble with this is, that people can be a bit vague about what they want, so it's up to me to just experiment with whatever picture of them I ended up using. At times it's hard, at times I'll look at a photo and know what I want to do with it.

The first one I did finally strayed away from pop art territory, instead creating a more graphic novel style piece. I threw in a few blood splatters for good measure, and the end result was great. Accomplishment of the day:

I then roamed back into pop art/retro style graphics for the 2nd picture, and added a big fuck off baseball bat. This was one picture I looked at and decided, "Yeah, I know what to do here". His hand position was convenient for holding something, and I knew I'd have to put something in there. Maybe a dildo would've been funnier. Neon colours, retro thunderbolts, more us of halftone, (I should probably ease up on using this, but let's face it, it looks fucking mint), some experiments with filters and layering, a bit of text and bammmmmmmmmmmm...

Proud of this one too, but feel as if it's missing something. May go back and experiment some more, but for now, I have 3 other people clammering for profile pics, and time is precious... these are gonna have to wait til tomorrow afternoon, as tomorrow morning I return to my day job, selling pies. Times is hard.

Love love.

J x