The BFA in Illustration covers the foundation of visual composition which is applied to a wide range of assignments that are industry driven. Students create book covers, noir pieces, travel and band posters and illustrations for short and long format books. Design, visual appeal and clear communication is a primary focus for all work created.
This collection holds student assignments from illustration courses offered at Kennesaw State University. Any student who has taken a KSU illustration course is welcome to submit.
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Vinyl Cover - ..Normal?
Kayla Dos Santos
I listen to Indie/Indie Rock/Indie Alternative music, so based off of some of the covers from the songs in my playlist, I decided to use similar colors and compositions.
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HUH?
Morgan J. Eaves
This work is tied to a playlist that includes phonk/rap songs made by a few different artists. The imagery is based on my representation of how the overall feelings of the songs. The image includes dark sci-fi imagery. With more of the songs being about darker topics, I didn't want to produce an overly bright image.
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Toxic Love
Dafne Gomez
It‘s a couple in a toxic relationship based off the playlist I created. The couple are characters my friend and I created months ago as a person project.
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Song for Luna Vinyl Cover
Oliver McLendon
Vinyl cover designed for a spotify playlist themed around songs about the moon. Features a moon in the center with a silhouette of a woman's profile creating a crescent shape, along with decorative flourish around the border.
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Country Cookin’
Wyatt Mueller
2 Lovers standing in their kitchen after making dinner. The warm sunset reaches through the windows and lightly covers the countertop and kitchen. A father rooster and his chick sit in the corner peacefully.
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Calm Mid-Century Playlist
Charlene Muyargas-Duque
This illustration is a cover for a mid-century music playlist. Inspired by old jazz vinyl covers and Rene Gruau‘s fashion illustrations, it has a plain cream background with a thick pink border, mid-century styled typography, and an elegant woman in a turquoise dress. The woman is modeled off of Julie London, a prominent jazz singer from the 1940s to 1960s.
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Whimsical Indie
Lily Newton
This is an album cover for a playlist inspired by whimsical indie songs that I enjoy. The image of this work came to mind as I listened to the songs, so this work is my interpretation of that and an attempt to create a work that communicates the cozy, fantastical feelings the songs I chose elicit.
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Romantic Breeze
Kinnari Satam
This vinyl cover encapsulates the beauty and soothing nature of romantic Bollywood music. In order to depict this, a silhouette of a dancing couple with a scarf flowing away from them towards the moon was created. To maintain a romantic mood, the work is set during a starry night.
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Desiderium
Megan Yi
this was an assignment for my illustration class to make a vinyl cover, so naturally I had to make it sad and about myself. I wanted my cover to convey the feeling of a lost muse for an artist, all the art dedicated to a person they once loved and what they may feel towards all that art.
What really inspired was the lyric “in five years I hope these songs feel like covers, dedicated to new lovers” from the song Night Shift by Lucy Dacus.
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Must I Be Fixed
Sean Amaso
"Must I Be Fixed" goes into detail about my journey with my autistic diagnosis. It also touches on how it affects my life (past, present, and future).
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Climate Change Zine
Taylor Ash
This is an Infographic Zine I designed describing the issue of Climate change for my advanced illustration class.
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Songs for Groovin'
Laura Black
This work is an album cover for a playlist of songs to dance to. Jam along with the four band members dancing their hearts out!
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No Girls Allowed
Megan Bongiovanni
The following piece was inspired by an article by Leila Erscoi titled “No Girls Allowed: a commentary on the video game industry” Which speaks on how misogyny polarizes the video game community .
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The End
Axe Brock
It's unknown to us what the End of the World will be like, however on the day it happens, it may be more wise to just accept the inevitable.
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Ascend Out of Your Body
julie cheung
An illustration of how it feels to listen to euphoric music that is linked with the Spotify code. All the rhythms and beats come out from her body in forms of color consuming her as she falls deeper within relaxation.
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Electric Fall-Out Album Vinyl Cover
Daniel Cruz-Guevara
An album cover for a playlist containing songs from both the band Fall Out Boy and the band the Electric Mayhem. The album cover depicts original characters dressed in the style and outfits of the Electric Mayhem (Dr. Teeth and Janice) and Fall Out Boy (Patrick Stump and the boy from the cover of American Beauty/American Psycho).
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Atlanta Mural
Hayden Davis
This is a mural that depicts the famous and historical factors that make Atlanta the city it is today. It is also chosen to have the founder of Atlanta, Richard Peters, as the center focus as he evolves from a working railroad constructor into the icon he soon became. On his suit is a variety of brands that are found in Atlanta to describe how this city has become one of the largest in the country.
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Mind the Gap
Chandler Eakle
A mini-comic that describes the struggle of communication in a world where even those who are diagnosed with things such as ADHD or Autism are expected to meet neurotypical standards for communication and relationships. In reality, neurodivergent people just need to be more informed and understood by themselves and the people around them.
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Kingpin: In a City of Organized Crime
Rodney F. Ford II
This playlist is comprised of the hip-hop songs that illustrates the life of a boss in a city of crime city.
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Candy Poisoning and You!
Kaylah Fraser
A zine that dispels the myths around candy poisoning and what we can do to combat the issues going on around Halloween.
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Amen to the Break - Spotify Playlist Vinyl Cover Project
Jonathan Hanham
In this assignment, I decided to create a Spotify playlist with songs in the Liquid DnB/Ambient Jungle genres, and using the "depressive breakcore" visual aesthetic that is popular online. The name "Amen to the Break" refers to the "Amen Break" which is a popular drum beat sample used in many songs in the DnB and Jungle music genres. The illustration is meant to portray the chaotic yet brain-numbing effect that the harsh and fast yet soothing music has on the listener which can put them in a trance-like state.
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Travel Poster
Lauryn Harden
For the travel poster assignment, I went with the fantasy approach. I wanted to make personification of various mushrooms enjoying the environment around them. In the foreground, there are three mushrooms sitting on a log, two of the mushrooms are having a conversation while the one on the far left is looking at the scenery. The mid ground is a lake, grass and multiple cattails. In the lake, there is a mushroom person sleeping inside he lake while and another is swinging on a cattail. In the background, there are trees being covered by the grass in front of them and various mushrooms interaction either with each other or with the environment itself.
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Vinyl Cover
Lauryn Harden
For this assignment, I wanted to tell a story of a girl unraveling the stories of the abandon kingdom she's entering. I went a surreal, atmospheric theme for this playlist so I can capture the curios yet ominous journey that the character is about to face. The song that I choose to reflect the illustration was White Palace by Christopher Larkin. The setting has a monochromatic scheme of grays while the character had dulled out colors to show that she's out of place. The character is about to cross the bridge, making her way towards the palace.
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"That Girl" Vinyl Cover
Addison Hoard
This piece of artwork is a 12x12 vinyl cover for a playlist made on Spotify using vibrant colors and vulgar poses to match the musical choice.
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Welcome to North Georgia Travel Poster
Addison Hoard
This is a poster inspired by North Georgia and the natural beauties of nature surrounding the upper part of the state.