Our Lady Of The Harbour Rhetorical Analysis

Our Lady of the Harbour written by Charles de Lint is a contemporary retelling of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. The illustration is based on the idea of the water and land being two different world; shown by the use of color blocking, where the black and white clash against each other as land and water meet. Plus, the mermaid’s mouth is covered as reference to the story about her losing her beautiful voice as a challenge to enrapture the male lover.

“The Artist Obsessed” is a cover done for the Art Direction Magazine. The focus of the cover being the obsessions of the artist at hand: typography. To represent this, a very carefully hand done “a” was crafted with a pencil over a small collage done with different types of paper.

The purpose of this was to represent how meticulous and detail-oriented typography is, especially when creating letterforms from scratch.

“A Cat’s Diary” is a collection of four spot illustrations, with the goal in mind of only using black and white illustrations in a more graphic style.

Each illustration was done in response to a cat’s narrative trying to escape its owner house and its little misadventures. The media chosen for this was printmaking as a way to allude to how manipulative and detail oriented cats are when planning to do things.

The two-spread illustration done for the article “Opposites Attract” is a representation of the good and evil shown through the halo and the snake. To further emphasize the concept of how opposites tend to attract each other, the complementary colors red and green were used primarily throughout in the illustration. Although, not part of the illustration component, two complementary typefaces that conceive the idea of men and women as opposites who attract each other were chosen for the project, Mr. Eaves (sans serif) and Mrs. Eaves (serif).

The “Monster Succulents”, is a collection of four different character designs, based on the idea of how succulents are bought as a mainstream house decoration that are forgotten as time goes by, and more than often they die. So, these little succulents are monsters that bite humans whenever they try to get near them as a way to protect

themselves.

“Dark Prince” is a character design morphing animal and plant into one being, with the focus of the spirit animal and plant in mind. The fox was chosen because of its intelligence and ability to be cunning, while the succulent was chosen to its resilience and ability to adapt to any environment.

The collage done for “The Green Model Eats Deliciously” represents the idea of models not physically eating, but rather feeding their minds with so many negative thoughts that this acts as their motor to keep on hurting themselves to achieve what they believe is beauty.