a black cover featuring a watercolor painting of a big horn sheep skull laying on a forest floor. Mushrooms grow out of the skull emiting light, light is also provided by fireflies scattered across the page. The text reads "Progenitor, Vol. 55"
The Project
The Progenitor is an award winning art and literary magazine put together every year by ACC english and graphic design students. Amid the covid-19 pandemic, our team decided the 2020 theme would be based around the cycle of life, birth and death and decay. I acted as illustrator creating art pieces for the cover, section dividers, page numbers, and more.
a looping animation of a rat fetus growing up, looking around, dying, and decaying. The bones morph into the shape of mushrooms which merge together to form the shape of the rat fetus once more.

This animation was printed on the bottom corner of the right pages around the page number, animating like a flipbook when the corner of the magazine was flipped through

A looping animation of an ouroboros, or snake eating its own tail, moving around in a circle

This animation served the same purpose as the one pictured to the left, animating when the magazine was flipped through backwards

A red botlett style mushroom on a dark green background
A red botlett style mushroom on a dark green background
The line art in white of the previous image, also on a dark green background.
The line art in white of the previous image, also on a dark green background.
An oyster style mushroom on a blue background
An oyster style mushroom on a blue background
The line art in white of the previous image, also on a dark blue background.
The line art in white of the previous image, also on a dark blue background.
Tall and pointy mushrooms on a dark red background
Tall and pointy mushrooms on a dark red background
The line art in white of the previous image, also on a dark red background.
The line art in white of the previous image, also on a dark red background.
Umbrella shaped mushrooms on a dark purple background
Umbrella shaped mushrooms on a dark purple background
The line art in white of the previous image, also on a dark purple background.
The line art in white of the previous image, also on a dark purple background.
White line art on a black background showing a humanoid figure in a suit jacket with mushrooms growing in the place the head should be
A flat colored image on a black background showing a humanoid figure in a suit jacket with mushrooms growing in the place the head should be
The same bighorn sheep skull image as on the top of this page, but zoomed out so the rest of the Progenitor cover can be seen. The spine shows the text " Progenitor 2020 Art & Literary Journal Volume 55 Arapahoe Community College". The back page shows the definition of the word progenitor "a person that originates a cultural or intellectual movement; a biological ancestral form"

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