project #3 assignment: Confucius Illustrated
Whether it was made to or not, we are going to use Adobe Illustrator literally.
Your assignment is to choose 3 of the 5 Confucius quotes below and illustrate them each on a page.
- Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
- The cautious seldom err.
- To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
- The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
- Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
You can literally interpret the image if you wish, or just try to capture its essence. Each image should be able to hold it's own, but try to maintain some sort of stylistic similarity between each piece. Maybe a recurrent shape or color appears on each page or maybe it is more compositional. Whatever you choose, make sure to put the actual quote somewhere on the page.
Remember that Confucius was minimal so make sure not to push anything too far. To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
To finish things up, using the common thread stylistic similarity, create a cover for your "book," Confucius. Four pieces in all but try not to over think any of them.