Illustrator Tests

My first use of Illustrator on my own work is an interesting but frustrating way of working. I tested out the method on an idea I had surrounding the Ghostbusters firehouse building, mainly because I feel its a very shape driven design and lends itself well to vectors. I'm still working out how to properly apply colour to a vector image without ruining the line quality as I did here. Even though its real bad and wrong I'm starting to get to grips with the new program as I try different methods and designs.

My first idea for my Chernobyl postcard, using imagery of the ghostly empty ferris wheel that stands in the town square. As this brief is focused on shape and telling a story without text, I have focused on using symbols to represent the city, in this case using the sign for radioactivity. Nobody will be able to safely live inside Chernobyl for 20,000 more years as the radiation clears up. This permanent ghost town aspect of the city is the most interesting part to me as its very much its defining trait, even though it was clearly once full of people and life. I've used the imagery of the wheel combined with the nuclear symbol to try and capture both the life and death sides of the coin.