Donate Life

For this project we had to create a poster design for Maine Donate Life. Ideas had to original and include a catchphrase that said "organ and tissue donation". This was the third time I've used this prompt and it's the one I struggle with the most. I created my slogan before I started drawing. The idea just kind of came to me "Make someone the happiest person alive, say 'yes' to organ and tissue donation." Granted marriage and proposals have little to do with organ and tissue donation, but I think the idea is clever.

I like working with text and usually I just free-hand it, but for this project because it is branding, I printed out my letters in the font I liked and traced them. I also just lightly traced the outline of the rings. I used marker for the bands, creating a little bit of shadows and highlights. For the background, I was at first going to leave it white. Then I came up with the idea to do confetti because that is associated with happiness and celebration (an uplifting mood to set). I used watercolor to get the light shades. I also used watercolor for the stone of the ring. I decided to use blue to make it contrast.

Overall I like this project, it's definitely more creative than what I've come up with in the past few years. The composition is very centered which I don't particularly like, but I think it pleasing to the eye. I like the colors although maybe I could've pushed my values more.