Iconography

This project was interesting because I never realized how difficult it is to simplify objects into icons. Its hard to get the idea across in the same fashion. In my project I picked a picture of a girl jumping with an umbrella. It was easy to outline with the pen tool in illustrator because of the practice I had from previous projects. I think that it looked very nice and I would like to incorporate silhouette in future artwork. Simplifying was harder because I felt the need to add more detail then was necessary to the image. I think the final outcome turned out well. Last was the elaborate and i thought that was really hard. I made snowflakes out of the girls and had them walking each other. I was kind of a twisted picture and I meant for people to have to stop and look closely at it.
All in all i really enjoyed this because it was something new and different. I think it was interesting to look at things and be able to simplify them. I have a greater respect for logos and other images that are similar to them.