Jordan's Necronomicon

       For my book project I chose to design my own cover for the Necronomicon.  The Necronomicon is a fictional book found in the writing of H.P. Lovecraft.  It is a collection of insane creatures and cosmic terrors.  I wanted to do a project to reflect that.  I made the background black and filled it with eyes of varying size and angles to give it an ominous depth as if things were looking at you from the darkness.  Then two large main eyes and a mouth to show that it is all one large entity that we can only see a portion of.  I put a persons silhouette in the mouth as if about to be swallowed showing how insignificant people are to these monsters because that is a common theme in the writings.  The person also has an eye on their chest because to know about these monsters and to see them is to be consumed by them.  Also tentacles coming out of the eyes to further the twisted nature of the thing on the cover.  

      The create the image was simple.  I simply found images a red eye and yellow eye online, then copied and distorted them untill the black background was covered.  The inside of the mouth was created with a gradient then teeth were added to the top and bottom.  I copied and distorted some tentacles over eyes to make them look like they were growing out of them.  Some I blacked out and added around the man's silhouette to make it look like they were swallowing him.  Finally I just added some text for the title and distorted it to make it look creepy.  

Jordan Grimaud Vector Exercise

       For this vector project I chose to show how the words horror and fear interact with one another.  Most people think of horror and fear as almost the same thing, one just describes a situation and another an emotion.  However, I wanted to show how in truth horror inspires fear so I made the word horror large and menacing and almost attacking the word fear which is small and cowering in the corner over a black background to hint at the horrors that lie in darkness.  

       To create the image first I chose a font for horror that seem menacing, and then converted it to an object so I could stretch out its anchor points to give it spindly needles and distort it.  I enlarged the size of it and placed it in the corner.  In order to create the shape I wanted to the word fear I changed the color to a deep red and ungrouped the letters so I could stagger and rotate them to give a cowering form.  Then I just placed the word at the bottom corner and added a black background.