Below are just three examples from my rather sizable collection of personal artwork. The assignment was to combine color and typographical studies; I chose to do visual manifestions of three of my favorite songs from the band Breaking Benjamin. Enjoy.

Forget It

This first one is my personal favorite and is modeled after a song entitled "Forget It." The song itself is nostalgic, pensive, and elegant, so I chose a font that would match. The font blends well with the memory theme, as do the flowing brush-like lines in the background that swirl about much like our thoughts so. The colors, which originally were only blue and white, are soft and kind. Orange, added later, added a vibrance that suited the blue very well.

Unknown Soldier

This second piece, entitled "Unknown Soldier" after a song by the same name, is about a powerful sort of beauty that comes with war. The colors are starkly contrasting and the black adds a bold, almost creeping assertiveness across the picture plane. For the font, I wanted something intelligent and sturdy, something completely in order while the jagged world around it falls apart..something that I feel is represented by the song.

Polyamorous

Breaking Benjamin's Polyamorous is a song about psychosis, a strange sort of craziness that can warp even the most sane man's mind. I wanted to capture this with this pane, and to do so I used bright, almost acidic colors and ripped, jarring lines. The font and colors change back and forth without any due pattern- like the thoughts of a madman. The black background adds another touch of rather calm contrast to the wildness of everything else.