Module 3 Sketches: Awareness Poster Concepts

I scanned my sketches in this time for the sake of better picture quality and quickly fiddled with some contrast settings to make it easier to make out. Like always, sorry for my horrible handwriting, I can type it out if it's super hard to read.

My first concept revolves around raising awareness about the fake ballot drop boxes in California, encouraging people to look out for those and any possible copycats, and generally be careful when entrusting their ballots to others, without discouraging mail-in voting in any way. My favorite of these is probably the top row, second image to the right, "Reality doesn't have asterisks," but I probably won't be choosing those designs because there are so many other people who have jumped on that first. 

These are some (linked-to-source) images I used to develop my sketches:

My second concept is an awareness poster concerning the giant asian murder hornets that have recently made their way to the USA. I'm more likely to pick this one both because it's really heavy on my mind right now, and because I haven't seen much information about them floating around other than their decapitation of honeybees threatening the entire bee population. I think the reports would be met with more urgency if they realized that we've found one over-wintered queen dead, and she may have lain up to 300 queens last fall. Unlike bees they don't seem to go all highlander on each other, they mostly just go in a different direction from their mother when it comes time to overwinter, and we only have a few years to trap and burn them out before it becomes impossible to eradicate them all without killing everything in the area, too. 

 

If I were going to choose one of the hornet designs I'd probably go with one of these two:

My final concept has to do with raising awareness about the eminent domain abuses and injustices occurring in the name of the border wall. There are a bunch of American citizens getting trapped on the Mexico side or having all or most of their land taken for absurdly low sums--one family that owned a ranch was offered barely more than ten thousand dollars, and to get something closer to the actual value of what they lost many victims have to sue. National parks and monuments are under blast to clear room for the wall. In particular the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is both a home to a number of threatened and endangered species, and a sacred burial site to the ancestors of two local tribes.

The one with the mountain as a headstone might be the one I go with if I decide to go with this concept.