For my visual quotes project, I picked the lyrics from the song “Where Do We Go?” from the British rock band Asking Alexandria, one of my all-time favorite bands. The lyrics go “Where do we go from here? I don’t wanna say goodbye yet”. The reason why I picked this quote is because before the semester started, I was in Europe for 3 weeks and Asking Alexandria just dropped their new album “Where Do We Go From Here”, and when I heard that last song, I got instant nostalgia. I was having a good time in Europe enjoying the many different cities and people. I didn’t want to come back to the states because I knew it was back to reality and being my last semester, I know my life is going to change after college. I’m always looking forward to the future but there’s a part of me that is scared because of past events and changes that I don’t know what to expect. So, this song is helping me throughout this semester and also this is a band that I’ve been listening to for 10 years, so they’ve always been a part of my life.
I got inspired by the quote on the right of the front man Danny Worsnop singing and the lyrics over him from the song “A Lesson Never Learned”. I’ve always liked this fan edited lyrics picture because the front man Danny just looks badass with his outfit and his posture singing. The lyric is also one of my favorite songs as it is a very catchy chorus to listen to and it makes the image powerful as if he was singing that song in the moment. I recently saw Asking Alexandria at a concert in Manhattan and snapped a photo of Danny up close since I was in the barricade. My photo and the other one look similar as they kind of have the same posture singing with one hand on the mic and the other up in the sky. I made the picture black and white and put the lyrics “Where Do We Go From Here I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye Yet”. I positioned the lyrics over his body like the other image and made the letters wide so it could be wide.
The photo on the left is a banner from Asking Alexandria’s live shows they used in 2012 and I always liked the skull they used of the Queen. It inspired me to get a tattoo of a skull but instead it would be a king with a crown on it. I found an image of a skull with roses around it and liked it (the one in the center). I showed that image of the skull to my tattoo artist in Ecuador and told him I wanted a crown on top of it and we removed the wording the face. The end result is the picture on the right of the tattoo I have right now on my right arm. This tattoo means to me my rebellious youth growing loving rock and metal music and also the perception of death hence the skull but with a crown and roses. So I put the original vector of the skull that I found and put it in the center of the image, then I put the quote on top of the skull and wrapped it around it. For the font I used “Iron Maiden” a legendary British metal band one of my favorites.
For the third design I got inspired by the UCLA Master Cover image by Fa Pash in where they took a photo of a sunset in Los Angeles with palm trees and a beautiful pink sunset. I then used a photo I took when I was in a beach in Rome, Italy where I took a picture of the sun setting and the water and that is also a beautiful image. I was given feedback that the text should go where the sand is and not in the sky, I reluctantly agreed and placed the font there but do not know how to blend the text in the sand. I looked at tutorials on how to blend the text in the sand but it did not turn out the way I anticipated it to be.
These are previous sketches ideas I had before using the images instead, the only idea that made the cut was the one with the skull idea.
