OLIO - Design Ideas Roughs - 22/10/2016

Rough designs based on the visual research I had looked into earlier, including ideas from my own depiction of the proverb.

“God sends food, and the devil sends cooks”

Idea 1. Conflict between Good and Evil (Food vs Cooks)

Representation of God’s food:

-        Vegetables

-        Chickens

-        Cattles

-        Pigs

-        Fruits

Representation of the Devil’s Cooks

-        Humanoid robots resembling kitchen appliances

-        Blowtorches

-        Kebab Skewers

-        Grills

-        Saucepans

-        Microwaves

A simple idea showcasing the two sides of good and evil facing each other in an epic clash, using food and kitchen hardware to represent God and the Devils’ “servants”.

Idea 2. Clash of the Titans (Muscular cow vs. The Cook) 

Inspired from the idea of “Hercules vs the Nemean Lion”, replacing the subject matters with a cattle (food) being wrestled by a Cook as metaphors for the proverb where man spoils god’s gift.

Idea 3. The fiendish cook reaches out to the meat as God tries to give it to the people. Inspired from the iconic painting “The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo. 

The meat is placed at the centre between the reaches of the devilish cook and god (from one side and the other), while the silhouettes of the people tries to reach out to it from the bottom.

Idea 4. Based on the story arcs of Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise from the poem “The Divine Comedy”. 

The idea is to illustrate the demonic cooks trying to ascend the tower to reach the sacred meat, guarded by living vegetables and gigantic beasts (cows, pigs and chickens) who are fending the cooks off and are locked in a battle of eternal struggle. The three tiers from bottom to top are of: Cooks (Inferno), Cattle and chickens (Purgatory) and Vegetables (Paradise/Heaven).

Idea 5. The cooks with devilish wings forked the meat (food) and are dipping it into a hot lake of foul sauce (lava) to have it seasoned and flavoured (essentially representing the spoiling of the good food as said from the proverb).

I will be choosing 3 ideas out of the rough designs that I think is best at representing the proverb. There may be some changes along the way though I will be refining these illustrations and give them basic colours (as they are important to show tone and atmosphere in artworks from the Renaissance period) and then I will narrow down to 2 designs I would want to further refine and polished, before choosing the final idea to be properly illustrated.