Fetherston-Infographic

Final Exam: Infographics  

Artist Statement

Infographics are fun and easy displays that can inform any audience about a certain topic, in a simple, yet creative way. Some of the criteria I had to meet in order to become successful in this infographic project were to gather information on a school related topic, and to create an infographic specifically explaining what your topic is. To successfully meet the criteria I began by researching important aspects from my topic; Pewaukee High School Success Skills. After creating a visual journal that not only explained what I planned to include in my final infographic, but I also created three thumbnails to help give me an idea of what I wanted to create in the end. Once I had chosen my best thumbnail, I began working on the Illustrator application of the Mac computer. The idea I chose for my Success Skills Infographic was to display a pirate ship leaving the island of Success Skills, to find the treasure of the Success Skills broken into four different categories; Persistent and Productive, Prompt and Prepared, Polite and Positive, and Digital Citizenship. To complete this project I first created my infographic background, which happened to be dark and light blue colors, hoping to create an ocean and skyline look. Once I created my background, I found a pirate scroll, that I had edited in Photoshop, and placed that for a title background of my infographic. I then wrote “Pewaukee High School Success Skills” over the pirate scroll, in black and red colors, to showcase our school colors, as well as to introduce my infographic topic. Next I drew five islands using the pencil tool on Illustrator, and filled them in with a brown/tan color, in order to be used as backgrounds for my information. My bigger island served for my background towards the overall idea of what Success Skills are, while the smaller four islands served as backgrounds for my information about the four categories of Success Skills. After that was completed, I edited a picture of a pirate ship, as well as a pirate in Photoshop, and then placed them into my infographic, in a way that looked like the ship and pirate were leaving the bigger island in search of the four smaller islands. During this project, I worked on creating a simple and creative infographic, hoping that anyone could comprehend the information I was showing. The craftsmanship that I completed was done well, as well as to help create a fun and simple vibe to my overall project. Looking at my composition for this project, I feel I did a very good job, being I really came up with a creative idea that would be fun for anybody to look at. My idea of a pirate leading to the different Success Skills felt really original, and I was proud of it. The main elements of art I felt I incorporated into this final project was space, color, and line, being I felt my composition and space was laid out creatively, while my colors were simple and pleasing to the eye, and I incorporated different lines that served as creative backgrounds within my art. While the principles of design I incorporated into my infographic were movement and emphasis, being I felt that any person’s eye would follow in a certain direction throughout my piece, in a good way, as well as I tried to differentiate and emphasize the more important titles and words within my infographic. I was pretty happy with this project, being I felt I excelled in my composition in this project more than the others. Also, I felt my craftsmanship was still pretty good, being that I focused hard on making my infographic look clean and simple. Although, there is always room for improvement in art, so I would have possibly made my infographic a little less childish, but to keep a creative and simple look that would just be more appealing to adults. In this class we completed a variety of assignments, whether it be involving different shapes, typography, corporate identities, book covers, or infographics. While completing all of these projects, I really grew to appreciate all the art that is around me. If it weren’t for this class, I would have never noticed on simple things like book covers or food labels can be identified as art. Along with that important aspect of art I learned this year, I felt that I really began to improve on my composition, which I felt got better throughout every project, although that is something I would really like to continue improving on. Overall, I had a great time in this art class, learning new forms of art, while experimenting with a newer media in the art world; computers.