Chapter 21 And Mother Earth Gives Her Care To Her Beings Surrounded By The Starry Skies

Chapter 20 Finishing Touches

And we have ourselves, a Mother Earth, carrying a baby and a goat in her arms. Literally it means that the Earth is the creator of all living beings, and she care for them. The animals had always been known to contribute by stabilizing the ecosystem of MotherEarth from the beginning of time. Therefore, we, as human must play our part too in this scenario. Care for the MotherEarth just as she care for us.

Chapter 19 And She Rest Beneath The Starry Skies

With the starry skies, i manage to illustrate the background as the universe. However, to maintain its symbolism, i tried to achieve the 'twinkle twinkle little star' effect in order not to make it look TOO realistic. This is a symbological image anyways.

Nothing much regarding the method to do. By simply selecting the entire paper by creating a box bigger then it, i colored it like how it was seen above. Then i duplicated and reduplicated the star and added it into the symbol. By using the spraying tool i 'sprayed' the star around the background.

"place' the previous logo and minimize it. Then place it on the top left and then......We're done.

Chapter 18 Mother Earth....Gaia

I separated the creation of Mother Earth into two, to make it easier in the process of editing. I tried it the first time together and god it was so much of a hassle. Anyways, just as previously, i illustrated Earth as a Woman, and this time more motherly. I did this by putting more emphasis on the hair, it make it looked like the Earth is wearing a scarf made of trees. It can also be interpreted as a long motherly hair.

The brown lines are actually cracks of the ground, to make her look more ancient as well as adding the effect of earthy ground which is generally a mixture of several color. The blue are straight forward enough, showing the flow of rivers along the body of Mother Earth. The green, are greenery.

The technique i used are plainly brush tool. They made wonders. By adjusting the strokes as well as the thickness of it, i manage to illustrate the linings of the ground as well as the water.

To achieve the effect of the trees aka greenery, i randomly coloured a mixture of greenery to add the effect of multiple flora and fauna. By grouping it all into one, i made copies of it and rearrange it inorder to create the effects seen above.

Chapter 17 - Let's Begin! A Baby?!?! A Goat !?!?!?!

On the left is the drawing of a baby. Yeah i know it sucks. And i personally made it faceless, so that it shows mysterious, and it can be anyone in this world. As a matter of fact, it represents the human race on the face of the Earth, that is why i prefer it to be anonymous.

On the right is the goat. I chose a goat because it is pretty symbolic by itself towards the animals and blend in well with mother nature. I tried putting in a tiger or and elephant but for some reason it doesnt work that well. Hence i landed up with a goat instead. Suprisingly it brings out the motherhood demeanor well.

The techniques i used are basically the pen tool ( cant escape with this ) and by adding some colors and playing around with Gradient Tool and Mesh Tool ( Thanks to Chathra ).

Chapter 16 Blueprint

VOILA!!! And hence i decided on this one. WHY?

Because the position of the mother seemed to be the most peaceful and graceful among all of them.

Because she is craddling both an animal and a human in her arms.

And it is the most symbolic of them all.

This marks the end of my precedent studies, and blueprints

(I do not like the idea of refering to examples, as my dear good friend Elaine pointed out to me angrily...but...as a beginner in this line i have to learn my place first in the world. And knowing my own limits is the first step. I hope my viewers will understand this. )

Chapter 15 Precedent Studies

Face it people, no other beings on Earth itself could illustrate motherhood better than Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.

So with this in mind, i set out searching for as many relevant pictures of Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ over the net. Do notice that i pick similar blue prints of the baby cuddling over the mother. This is a posture of motherly-love.

Chapter 14 - Ideation of Ideas

Does back to the main question; How shall i illustrate deforestation again? How do i illustrate Earth as a female? And in what way does it got to do with us - humans and the animals; in short, all living beings?

And thus, for this second assignment i intended to approach Deforestation topic in a more...positive manner. Instead of telling my audience to STOP DEFORESTATION, i intended to use another subtle approach of SAVE MOTHEREARTH, or CARE THE MOTHEREARTH!

After much thinking, i decided to design my picture base on these criterias:

Earth as a female - feminism
Earth as a mother - the bringer of life and care
A baby - a representative for humans
An animal - a representative for animal
Starry sky background - The universe, enhancing the effect of the Earth as a planet.

Chapter 13 - A New Beginning

Back to the issue of deforestation, now for my second computer graphics assignment i am supposed to create another adobe illustrator image base on my topic.

But instead of a mere logo, i am supposed to make it in more detail manner, futher describing in detail the area of my choice as well as the item of my choice.

And thus my second journey into the realm of graphics began...