Visual Communication - GIF brief intro

The 3 songs I was given were Age of Consent by New Order, Sun Godess by Yesterday's New Quintet and Waterfall by Weather Report. Although Age of Consent is a big tune I didn't think it would lend itself as well to image-making. I went for the Weather Report as I felt the biggest vibes for it. 

The whole character development thing sounded tricky to me as this isn't really what I'm into- but I'm looking forward to challenging myself. 

Ideas

I still can't really work out what the song is saying and what I want to say. Sometimes it feels quite melancholic, sometimes it sounds joyful- maybe I can weave multiple approaches in. Some imagery popping into my head so far is someone standing under a waterfall, a cool jazz cat smoking a cig, people in the rain, someone curling into/uncurling from a ball. All have been hard to translate into the real world -  getting the poise and vibe of the character right is very hard - I think need to get back into life drawing.

Visuals

Fallingwater

Liam Cobb

Nice cover, Chet

Visually I've been thinking of jazz album covers- lots of amazing design, cut paper shapes. I feel like this Chet Baker one communicates the music so well - a prime piece of visual communication. I first listened to the album because of the cover-you can almost imagine what the music will sound like from seeing it. Had a think about Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (similar to the title of the song) looking at a picture of it is calming, again it feels like its saying something/working with that waterfall. Can buildings function as illustration? FLW sending me off to Liam Cobb - mad architecture drawings and sweet characters. Nice vibe to his illustrations- space, tranquility.

Sketchbook

Finding it hard to finding a path - throwing out lots of ideas and not really liking any of them. May be being to fast, not thinking enough (as I tend to do). I feel like I need to work out what I want to say before the characters will come?