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Jillian Tamaki’s idea process involves a 7-step process. The first step is to get yourself interested, to be inspired and go deep within the thing you love for media. The second step is to collect the media that inspires you and have a place to keep them for references. The third step is to take the content and media seriously, make sure to write down notes in key words that come to mind When reading up on information. The fourth step is to take notes you wrote and to create a list of words and brainstorm them. This brainstorm will help you in many ways as adding keywords can help further your improvement and inspiration. The fifth step is to find and add the images to visualize your ideas and expand upon them. The six-step is to mix up all the content interior concepts. And the final step is the phone thumbnail sketches from the information you gathered along with your final sketches for your concepts.

I also perform steps just like Tamaki does but in a different way. I always look at cartoons and anime for inspiration and next thing you know I always draw them and I always get these pictures and study from them. I even study from Big artists and keep some of their styles for my own to make up my own. The reason for that is because I just know that nobody Can just create a style off the bat. That style is a combination of other artist styles all along.

This is one of the Pepsi can designs from the Pepsi challenge. I chose this one because of how illustrative and trippie it looks. It’s like when I drink a can of Pepsi looking at this, it feels like I’m drinking a whole lot of inspiration. I’m sorry if it sounds cheesy but that’s just the way things are. However it is a bit too descriptive with its design. The Pepsi logo is still there, but most of the scribbles and other designs on the can are taken away from it at times. Of course the first thing you see when you open your eyes to see the can is the Pepsi logo of course which they succeeded in.

The lecture from week 11 and 12 definitely provide indispensable information in regards to narrative illustration. In week 11 we get to learn about the “big idea” in regards to making and breaking a scene and conveying the main message. I did appreciate the art used by both Humberto Ramos and Frank Miller, two of of my favorite artists. I do agree that the fact that an illustration should definitely give the feeling and emotional impact in which it’s trying to convey. I do like the point of view that is shown in week 12 and how we should consider our selves directors in regards to coming up with ideas. There are various ways of perspective in regards to drawing and that as well can make or break a scene. Eye level is also definitely essential as well.