Fiction records | Unit X

After looking at music posters/advertisements I decided to do some digital drawings of some musical instruments, starting with guitars. I decided to use a realistic approach to the guitars but give them contrasting bold backgrounds. I also decided to add some shapes inspired by watching some music videos, and I like the abstract feel combined with the detailed guitars.  I plan on doing some illustrations of other musical instruments, and I particularly want to try overlapping outlines of instruments rather than spending a lot of time on giving each instrument an entirely finished outcome. I also plan on doing some poster designs and gifs with these outcomes.

I decided to look at some music posters to get some ideas of how music is advertised and for some artistic inspiration. I noticed a lot of music posters have bold colours, shapes and font and want to explore this in my own work. I also noticed the aesthetic of many music posters go with the genre of music. I plan on doing some illustrations of musical instruments with bold colours and shapes inspired by these posters. While researching music posters I came across the work of Craig Frazier . He has been an illustrator and designer since 1978.  “I like to think that one of the explanations for Craig Frazier’s expressive and memorable illustrations is that he has been—and still is—a designer. The search for a concept—and not putting anything down until a concept is found —is what makes the end product great work that communicates, often about difficult subjects.” -  —Ivan Chermayeff,  partner, Chermayeff & Geismar I like his illustrations and the simplici...