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In this calender, I used the cut out of Kendrick as the focal point. His signature, which I took out of the Reebok collaboration logo was used as decoration and to address who the month was about. From the first album cover, I cropped out the upper right corner of the cover and used it as the backdrop for the month. And last but not least, the alternate album cover was used as decoration for the grid
So for February, I decided to use the album 808s and heartbreak and more specifically the song heartless. I took a screenshot from the video and used the content aware fill tool with some smudging to eliminate the original Kanye from the music video and then inserted a filtered version of the other version of Kanye, i then added more stars in the sky and used both a paint brush to make it both larger and darker.
so for March, I used the album 2014 Forrest hills drive as my influence. allot of the calender and the calender header was based off of the album art. I used an image of J. Cole on top of his roof, which was derived/inspired by the album cover. The gradient background, which was the tool for the month, the colors were gotten directly from the album cover. I then cropped out the title text from the album and used it to fill in my calender.
For April, an artist, rather than an album was used as the basis for the calender header. I used ScHoolboy Q but as influence for the design i used his alias, "Groovy Q" The "TDE" logo was edited slightly, i used the texture from the background as a filler for the logo. Puppet warp was used to create the kind of wavy shape. It derived from a triangle, which i then used the puppet warp tool on to form and shape, tie die was then pasted into the shape and his hat was smudged to blend with the shape
For may, I used pro Era as the basis for this calender. He comes from Brooklyn, so I used the skyline of Brooklyn as the background and used this months tool, which was the blur tool, to put emphasis on him, rather than the skyline. I changed the colors of the pro era logo, and for the May text, I took the eye from the R in pro era and put into the A in May
For June, where the pen tool was used, I created a vector drawing of Biggie, the angel halo was made by myself using two ellipses
For July, I used chance the rapper for the month. He's from Chicago, so i used the skyline, along with artwork from his album, Acid Rap to create a album artwork-esque header for July
For august, I did Vic Mensa. I used the burn and dodge tool on his face and his coat, to better make him match the shades in the background, which I used the clone tool and content aware tool to remove him from the image.
For September, The Life of Pablo, and album by Kanye West was used. In the back, is the color of the album cover and over that, is the handwritten and signed track list that was used in producing the album. The actual image of Kanye was taken from the world reveal of the album at Madison Square Garden. And the text above his head is from the series of merchandise that released as part of marketing the album.
For October, I did G-eazy. The skyline is the skyline of Oakland, California, which is where he is from. the color scheme was taken from his album, "these things happen when its dark out." the colors on the grid were taken from the calender header
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