A Vogue Woman

The message I want to create for the viewer is that a Vogue magazine is as essential as the little black dress.

I tried to show this by having an unrecognizable woman wearing a simple timeless silhouette of a dress that has Vogue covers on it. The reason I want the woman to be unrecognizable is so the viewer doesn't associate the woman with anyone or to compare herself to the woman. This way the viewer would only focus on the image. I had a similar idea for the setting. By placing the woman in an unrecognizable place, it could be anytime period, in any country. The woman could be poor or rich, old or young. This shows that Vogue really is for any woman.

Review of Blog

After looking at a couple of the blogs listed, Andrea Joseph's is definitely my favorite. I really liked how she not only had a title block that looked like it would be a label on a sketchbook or on a notebook. This automatically sets the tone for the blog. She follows by saying that this is her online sketchbook. This immediately tells the viewer that this is going to show her process sketches and then the final project. I like this already because now i'm looking forward to see her train of thought.

Before i started reading her blog i just skimmed through the pictures. I liked that she has themes that she organizes in her blog. For example on the first page she has a Mexico and Spain inspired artwork and then she has many sketches of shoes. Her shoe theme is pretty cool, just the way the composition is. She has a lot of similar shoe sketches but they are all laid out differently. The way she plans her sketch with the shoe she gives the sketch a personality. Earlier with the Mexico and Spain dish, i really liked how she joked around with the drawings. She really gives a personality in her sketches.

Since her blog is based on sketches i really like how she teaches the viewer how to sketch, or teaches the viewer her 6 step process. This is a great tool for students or whoever wants to critique their own craft because she tells you.

It was interesting to me that she actually sells her sketches. I thought that was cool because by blogging about her sketches and selling them its like a gallery opening without all the hassel.

   My concept for the semester is "Printed Media" so i automatically thought of magazines. 

   There has always been an ongoing trend to reinvent the past, you know "retro". So i wanted to prove this by comparing two magazine covers published fifty years apart. The Bazaar magazine was from November 2009 and the Vogue magazine was from 1950. I think that by forcing the covers next to each other the viewer can see that nothing really has changed in the final outcome of magazine covers, even though the process used to get to the final product has changed.