This project took a little bit of time to figure out what I would do. I explored three different artists; Louis Armstrong, Simon and Garfunkel, and Vince Guaraldi. Each of these musicians are incredibly different yet I explored their background, their accomplishments and their journey. Louis was difficult. One of the sketches is just his face, especially his large cheeks he's known so well for. But the other three are more about him. The place where he played his first gigs, his well known trumpet, and the Star of David, which he displayed everywhere after growing up with a Jewish Family who treated him like their own since they knew he grew up without a father.
Simon and Garfunkel are entirely different. They are naturalists and hippies so I designed two covers that represented that aspect. However, they broke up and had about 10 reunions, so I tried to show that with the band aid. The last design for them was their silhouettes, since they have iconically large hair.
Vince Guaraldi was admittedly the most fun to sketch for. I am a lover of Cool Jazz and his album "The Vince Guaraldi Trio" is one of my favorites, it has the music he composed for many charlie brown specials. Vince wears very iconic glasses and his mustache is unforgettable, so for the first sketch I took them off of him and singled them out on the page. Next, I chose the San Francisco skyline since it was influential in his life. Lastly, I made two sketches to show his love for creating music for The Peanuts. He died very young and they played his most famous piece-Linus and Lucy-at his funeral. To represent the Peanuts I thought that the small piano that Schroeder plays was a great piece and the Charlie Brown Christmas tree since he wrote music for that special as well.
I think I'm going to pursue Vince, and likely will stick with the piano or glasses and mustache option.
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