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This is a Japanese Pond Turtle. Due to the long lifespan on tortoises, they represent longevity!

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Frogs - The presence of frogs in a rice paddy meant good fortune.

The Japanese word for frog, “kaeru”, is also a homonym for “to return”, which symbolizes safe travels!

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Glasses in general are prominent in character designs for those who are wise, book/tech-smart, and knowledgable. Round glasses are attributed to the extreme nerd stereotype, because they make their eyes look (sometimes cartoonishly) big and "geeky."

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Also -- here's Kriota's "Draw Stronger" book (you can often find cheap used copies online!)

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Also -- here's Kriota's "Draw Stronger" book (you can often find cheap used copies online!)

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The zine she did (that this book grew from) is called "(No) Pain" -- you might be able to find copies out there too!

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"Kriota Willberg's Draw Stronger is a life-saver. Every artist-pro and amateur alike-needs to memorize this essential little book." - Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, The Sculptor

"Kriota Willberg's Draw Stronger is an indispensable guide to help artists and writers practice self care and sustain their artistic practice. The ups and downs of the creative process can be a pain in the butt but it doesn't have to be a pain in the neck, back, and arms too." - James Sturm, Director of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS)

"A concise, thoughtful, and informative manual that should be required reading for all aspiring (and aging) cartoonists." - Adrian Tomine, author of Killing and Dying

Draw Stronger is a comprehensive self-care guide for artists interested in preventing repetitive stress injuries and sustaining a pain free life long drawing practice. Understand how injuries happen and what types of injuries commonly affect drawing professionals. Use practical first aide to help manage pain in the event of injury. Learn what types of symptoms should be diagnosed by doctor. Practice simple exercises to help correct posture and reduce fatigue and pain. Clearly illustrated, informative, and packed with wholesome corrective goodness, this graphic novel can get you started practicing simple routines that will help take care of your most important drawing instrument - your body!

Cartoonist Kriota Willberg draws from decades of experience as a massage therapist and educator in health sciences and the arts, creating a comprehensive guide to injury prevention for cartoonists. Her comics appear in: SubCultures, Awesome Possum 3, 4PANEL, Strumpet 5, Comics for Choice, Graphic Canon; and the journals Intima and Broken Pencil. She is the first-ever artist-in-residence at the New York Academy of Medicine Library.

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"Kriota Willberg's Draw Stronger is a life-saver. Every artist-pro and amateur alike-needs to memorize this essential little book." - Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, The Sculptor "Kriota Willberg's Draw Stronger is an indispensable guide to help artists and writers practice self care and sustain their artistic practice.

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Now we're going to take everything we learned from working on music posters -- how to show mood/feeling and how to integrate type into our work -- and apply that to package design.

There is an actual, wild "Renaissance" in can wraps and labels right now -- many of them are even made as peel-able stickers, so we can easily take the labels off and save them or slap them up somewhere. SO MUCH ART!

They need you.  Let's make killer can labels.

ASSIGNMENT: Design a full color label for a canned beverage of your own creation! Must include typography: name of the drink, and what the drink is (example: "Harry Potter's Tears, Salty Energy Drink"). Consider that your image must wrap around the entire can AND have good shelf readability (only part of the can will show when it's sitting on a store shelf). All sketches and finals uploaded to our PADLET, finals will also be printed out and wrapped around a real can. NOTE: You can do a glass bottle label, you just have a lot less space to work with.

Monday March 30th: Get assignment, look at inspiring can artwork, brainstorm ideas, work on thumbnail  -- knock out 20 thumbnail ideas!

Thursday April 2nd: Your 20 thumbnail sketches -- mark your 3-4 favorites! (Yes, these can be for all different drinks, and remember: type/lettering is a big part of this. Uploaded to Padlet

Monday April 6th:  Upload 3 (three) COLOR COMPS with LETTERING to Padlet. These need to show color, layout to scale, AND lettering! Make sure you show where the bar code and ingredient block will go (you can swipe these from anything!)

Thursday April 9th: Progress-check and in-class work on Finals. Bring your in-progress label and everything you need to complete your work.

Monday April 13th:  Final label due in two forms --

1) Upload both a picture of your flat art AND a photo of your art printed & wrapped around a can to our Padlet

AND ...

2) Bring your label printed out and wrapped around an actual can to class -- we'll be putting your actual cans up for crit 😉👍

What did you learn from printing your posters? Were things too dark/saturated? Did you get printer stripes? Did you leave it to the last minute and get stressed out? LEARN, ADAPT, WORK SMARTER (NOT HARDER)!

As always, feel free to email me with any questions:  isamaras@cca.edu

Evaluation Criteria:

*Creativity and Originality

* Typographic Design

* Visual Aesthetics

* Clarity

* Inclusion/integration of ingredient block/bar code, etc.

* Overall Cohesiveness

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If you want to get to know Arlene a lil before Thursday... 

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If you want to get to know Arlene a lil before Thursday... 

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Meet the Woman Behind Thousands of Famous Fillmore Posters | KQED

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For more than 30 years, former Art Director of Bill Graham Presents Arlene Owseichik, brought the famous free Fillmore concert posters to millions of concertgoers.

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Oranges symbolize good luck, wealth, and prosperity especially in Chinese culture. They are often linked with positivity since it is believed they increase optimistic energy. Some believe the orange color is similar to gold so it is a symbol of fortune.

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And I used to work for this illustrator, Steven Guarnaccia! 

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And I used to work for this illustrator, Steven Guarnaccia! 

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And Marcos used to work for this illustrator, Buck Lewis! 

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And Marcos used to work for this illustrator, Buck Lewis! 

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When you want to visit a world that no one has ever seen before. When you create a story that needs a character that doesn’t exist. When you wish there was a way to make the impossible possible. If only you could find that window into the world you know is there, the world that no one else sees…Tha

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David Gordon's work (he used to be Peter de Sève's assistant!)

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David Gordon's work (he used to be Peter de Sève's assistant!)

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Official website of David Gordon, author & illustrator of NYT Best Seller Extremely Cute Animals Operating Heavy Machinery.

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Peter de Sève (bummer there's no image, but his work is great!)

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Peter de Sève (bummer there's no image, but his work is great!)

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you’re into with the people who get you.

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The Phoenix, at the end of its life, ignites a fire in a pyre of wood and is consumed by it. Once the flames die, it rises from the ashes reborn.  It is a symbol of resurrection, eternal life, and the sun.

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In Chinese culture, jade bangles (bracelets), traditionally green jade, are representative of protection, luck, health, and prosperity. It also represents a commitment and dedication because they are never meant to be taken off once put on, until they naturally break. They come in some other unique colors, such as purple, which my own mother had (has?) for as long as I've been conscious. Besides being a pretty color, the purple symbolizes tranquility, happiness, and spiritual growth.

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going to rework the comp into the final

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In faerietales, dark forests are symbolic of challenge and growth. Characters often begin to encounter major set-backs, evils, and obstacles that tests their character, motivations, and true nature as they complete their journey. They also sometimes represent coming of age as they are occasionally symbolic of a boundary between childhood and adulthood.

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Koi Fish - symbols of perseverance due to their strength swimming upstream and leaping across waterfalls

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Maneki Neko - A classic sign of good luck and fortune. It's waving paw brings in good energy

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all of the “text here” things are possible places, not necessarily every space is going to be used

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Pearls worn as jewelry are a symbol of wealth, purity, beauty, and the sea (obviously where they come from). When they are worn, they add a sense of sophistication and high class to the wearer's overall look. They also represent value and wisdom, especially with how long they take to naturally form. Their variation in color also conveys different meanings. They also remind me of the painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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The Sphinx was the guardian of Egyptian magic and occult wisdom, endowed with the four virtues of the Maji: knowledge, daring, will power, and silence. They are a symbol of mystic wisdom and an emblem of silence.

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KIK and/or The Rose

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the ones outline and black and blue are my favorites! 

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Im open to combining thumbs 2 and 3 together and 4 and 5 together since I like the concept of the both of them!!

For all of them I want to use loud bright colors along with really jagged shapes and funky perspective

The first one is a mouth snarling with a cigarette

2 and 3 are both of the same star being? i guess in different poses, one is with a skateboard and the other is supposed to be in the perspective where we see the bottom of their shoe!

4 and 5 are also similar

4 is of a destroyed cake with crumpled up cigarettes and a lighter

and 5 is of a locket being set on fire with a lighter

6 is a bog of cigarettes except some of them start turning into flowers and wilting

(seems like i really like cigarettes oops)

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the musician i picked is sombr! the blue stars are the thumbnails i’m leaning towards, they either include a car, a bird, or some kind of meteor hitting/end of the world. i’m also willing to combine any ideas together!

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The main artist is Mothica and I’m combining some elements from her two most recent albums “Nocturnal” and “Kissing Death”. The stickers with the arrows are thumbs that I like (tho some of them are similar to others). Playing around with this moth creature and color palette will be limited to blue, green, red and black/white like in sketches.

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Phantom Siita (main act)

(I left space for 4 more, favorites marked in green, would possibly also mark the one in the bottom left on the left page or the top right on the left page)

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Of course, there is the apple in the Garden of Eden, making it a modern symbol of good and bad divinities, as well as knowledge and temptations. Fun fact though, the fruit is never specified in the myth! There were likely a lot of reasons, like influence from language mix ups and Welsh folklore, as well as Greeks influence of the Golden Apple, which was a symbol of greed and the Trojan War. Beyond that is is a symbol of health and youth.

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Grapes have a long symbolic history of abundance and hospitality, and celebration because of their connection to wine! They are symbols of divinity in most cultures they grew, because of alcohols altering properties. As well as a symbol for the cycle of life, vine to grape to wine: birth to life to afterlife.

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Throughout the Mediterranean, figs have historically been a symbol of knowledge, abundance, and fertility. Within Islam and Buddhism, Fig trees are connected with divinity and enlightenment.

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In faerietales, the locked door often symbolizes hidden secrets and forbidden knowledge. They’re usually presented to the main character either to test their temptations or as a facilitator of confrontation and hidden potential.

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In faerietales, the well, or the wishing well, is symbolic of hope, desires, and change. It is often at a wishing well that the main character is given the chance to alter their fate, whether through granting the wish or bestowing something upon the character that could.

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Today's Presentation: a short History of Rock Posters

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Today's Presentation: a short History of Rock Posters

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Incredddddible digital archive of rock posters, including pretty much EVERY. SINGLE. FILLMORE. POSTER. EVER! 

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Incredddddible digital archive of rock posters, including pretty much EVERY. SINGLE. FILLMORE. POSTER. EVER! 

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Rock posters, concert posters, band posters, music posters or gig posters? Whatever you choose to call them, they are enduring treasures of pop culture. 1966 was a pivotal year in the history of rock 'n' roll posters, marking the beginning of two groundbreaking psychedelic poster series, Bill Graham's Fillmore poster series and The Family Dog's Avalon Ballroom poster series. As San Francisco became the epicenter of hippie culture, concert posters, flyers and handbills began to echo the bright colors and pulsating, swirling shapes of the liquid light shows projected on the walls of The Fillmore and The Avalon.

Other important venues that issued posters during the 60s include The Matrix, California Hall, Winterland and the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco; The Kaleidoscope, The Cheetah and The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles; Pepperland and The Euphoria in San Rafael; The Grande Ballroom in Detroit; and The Fillmore East in New York.

The era of the modern rock poster began in the mid-1980s around the time that Bill Graham Presents' BGP numbered poster series began. When Bill Graham returned to promoting concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium in 1988, he started the New Fillmore poster series which is the longest running continuously numbered poster series in rock poster history.

The early 1990s marked the beginning of a renaissance in silkscreen poster printing, led by poster artists Frank Kozik, Coop, Mark Arminski, Derek Hess and Lindsey Kuhn. Other artists well known for their screen-printed posters include Jay Ryan, Emek, Chuck Sperry and Ron Donovan of Firehouse, Drowning Creek and Alan Forbes.
We Also Buy Vintage Rock Posters and Original Poster Art
This section includes many of our other poster offerings including: Artist Signed and Performer Autographed posters, Alternative Movie Posters, Original One Sheet Movie Posters, Black Light Posters, Vintage Headshop Posters, Polish Movie, Cultural and Theater Posters, German Concert Posters, Art Exhibition and Fine Art Posters, and other posters that fall outside of our music categories.
Can't find it? Try us...We have many more rare and unusual items that are not listed
We have a vast inventory of music memorabila and other collectibles. Here are some of our concert programs, tickets, backstage passes and laminates, buttons, pins, t-shirts and authentic celebrity guitar picks. Please don't hesitate to contact us with inquiries about other items that may not appear here.
All items listed for sale on this site are in stock and ready to ship. From the groundbreaking psychedelic posters of the 1960's San Francisco rock scene to the cutting edge silkscreen gig posters of today... We specialize in rock concert poster art and rock n roll posters of all types.

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Original Concert, Rock, Music & Band Posters - D.King Gallery

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Serving rock poster collectors since 1971. Your trusted source for original rock concert posters, vintage sports memorabilia and pop culture artifacts.

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Music moves us all in different ways -- how would you let an audience know what kind of experience they could expect from a show if you CAN'T show the band or singer? What sort of colors would you use to create a mood to your piece? What medium would you work with to best describe the band/singer/musician? What kind of symbols, shapes, lighting and perspective can you work with to give a feeling, an emotion, or tell the story of your chosen musician?

For this assignment you’re going to do a poster for a real band, singer or musical act of your choice. (No imaginary or fictional acts.) Just like in the real Fillmore event posters, you CANNOT show the band or singer in any way. You can use other people, animals, creatures, places, things (basically anything and everything else in the known universe -- but not the band/singer/musician themselves).

You will also be designing your own LETTERING for the poster (it can be inspired by existing fonts, but should be your own creation). Fonts play a critical role in brand imaging. (If you have a default style you use all the time, this is a great opportunity to *try something new* and stretch yourself a little bit.)

A quick note on lettering -- simply writing a band name in cursive script is not that interesting. (Seriously.)

NOTE: You are creating a poster for a *concert* -- this image should not represent a single song, it's for an event at which they would be playing a LOT of their music. To be extra, extra clear: you are NOT illustrating a song, you are creating a poster for a full concert.

Our Next Assignment: Illustrating a “FILLMORE STYLE MUSIC POSTER”

FORMAT:  One full color poster for the musical act of your choice, with lettering of your own design. NO portraits of the singer/musicians. Any media, 13 x 19 vertical. (This is the same size as an actual Fillmore poster). Type should include: the band name (BIGGEST), the date (make something up -- date must be written out, not just numbers), and the venue (The Fillmore). You must also sneak the letter "F" in your image somewhere!

CONTENT:  How can you tell us what this music is like without showing us the performer? Art Director Arlene Owseichik: "Fillmore posters are created to be a celebration: of the band, the music!"

Things on their "NO" list: "We're kinda tired of these things" -- trees, typewriters, hearts with swords/daggers/knives, any kind of misogyny ("and don't over-sexualize women"), guns/violence, big skulls, ciggies, booze.  "Try to think outside of the box, bring us something we haven't seen yet!"

Your poster MUST include the following (in this size hierarchy):

"Bill Graham Presents in San Francisco" at the very top, in small type

The main act (band, singer, musician), large type!

The opening act (in smaller type)

The date of the show (written out)

Where it's happening: "The Fillmore" and the address "1805 Geary at Fillmore"

A hidden letter "F" in your art somewhere!

DEADLINES: (all work submitted to our class PADLET before the start of class)

Thursday March 5th:  Assignment given, go on a Type Safari, start brainstorming/thumbnails in class if time -- do 20 thumbnails! Upload these to Padlet

Monday March 9th:  Upload your 20 thumbnails, and mark your 3-4 favorites so we know which ones you want to talk about. If you have some ideas about what kind of type you might use, throw in a sample!

Thursday March 12th:  3 COLOR COMPS, with your chosen type in place to Padlet. (Special Guest: Itzél Rios-Ellis!)

Monday March 16th:  PROGRESS CHECK on your final, with ALL your type in place to Padlet. (These should really look like posters now) We can also work in class on assembling our Large Seed Packets if they're back from the printer!

Thursday March 19th:  Final full color art, w/ all type in place, 13 x 19 inches vertical -- PRINTED OUT TO SIZE (and uploaded to Padlet). We'll be doing final crit on a Nave wall, with a SPECIAL GUEST!

As always, feel free to email me with any questions: isamaras@cca.edu

Evaluation Criteria:

* Creativity in Visual Elements

* Effective Mood and Atmosphere Representation

* Typography Design

* Inclusion of all necessary info and the “F”

* Overall Composition and Craftsmanship

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Swallow - these birds are a symbol of good fortune, fertility and spring! Cherry blossoms are also a symbol of spring so I added the swallow sitting on one.

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Praying Mantis - A symbol of bravery and patience, like a mantis waiting for the time to strike! I also chose to do an Orchid mantis because they're my favorite!