Archive for year: 2016

I have finished my fist draft for George the client that wants the bubble head for his children book. I try to have my illustration as similar as possible to the real Rodney Mullen. American professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, inventor, and public speaker who practices freestyle and street skateboarding. The only problem so far is to draw every single detail to have my illustration as same as the real person it requires many layers on top of other and my file is not as clean as I wanted. I have to work on cleaning my  illustration file because when we send the final approved illustration he need the original file.  I did my best to make the illustration represent what he does. I added a skated clothing a par of skater shorts a 90’s t shirt and some cool skated tennis shoes so can be easy on the eyes that he does like and practice skating, the final element of course it has to be a skate board.

Also today as a team gave feed back to Bess and Sarah to improve their design of the for the Hilell club. Later on the final edits were made and the file was sent successfully. Below is a image of the final drat for Rodney Mullen the skater:

Today I have been working on our Active planet kids project. I was assigned to create one of the bobble head characters for Kartick Satyanarayan, who is famous for rescuing “dancing” bears in India. His mission is to rescue and help the wildlife in India. One of the first things I did today was look at the research we all found as a group and looked at his photos for reference. I started sketching him out while referring to the proportions that the other bobble heads are drawn in. I made sure that the sketch would match stylistically with what was already out there. As soon as I felt that I had everything correct stylistically, I moved on to taking it to illustrator. I have been very careful to try to get everything looking very symmetrical and with smooth outlines. I am not completely done, but I have made significant progress throughout the day. One of the tricky parts is drawing the beard, which I have been working on the longest. I still want to refine the beard even more, because the edges look to jagged and not uniform. I also incorporated the use of gradients, which a lot of the existing bobble heads have on the clothing part. I think I am successfully capturing his likeness in this stylized illustration of him. As soon as I’m finished I am going to posting it on our Trello board, so my group members can give me feedback on it before we send it out to George. he wants us to send him five illustrations to begin with, before we move on to the rest of the project.

I have been working on the designs for the line lackeys club. I am almost done with the first of four logos. It took a while to get the anchor just right and I’m really impressed with how it’s turning out. I wanted to create the anchor illustration first because it’s gonna be the main symbol for most of the sketches I’m going to be taking to illustrator. I then started to create the banner that will include the clubs name with the Montserrat font. I wanted typography that looked clean and readable, and I felt like the Montserrat font worked for this logo. I’m going to continue working on the rest of the logos tonight and finish them up by tomorrow and have them sent to the president of the club.

Another project my group and I have started working on is for active planet kids. They have 10 different libraries of illustrations that they would like us to work on. So in last nights meeting we decided that we are all going to do research on the three bobble head character we are responsible for. We are going to post all of our research on trello tonight so that we can see what each of us found. This will help us pick out information that will help influence the direction of the elements we are going to illustrate. I will be in charge of creating the illustration for the the Kartick Satyanarayan bobble head. The next step for this project is to start sketching out the illustration and taking it to illustrator for a first draft.

After yesterdays critique of our Driffill sports logos, I went back into illustrator and made all of the necessary refinements so that we could send them to Driffill before Friday. I made the lines of my logo a lot thicker and also added some line variation. I also used the same colors and typography we agreed on to make the logos look unified. I am really happy with how they all turned out. We hope to hear back from Driffils principal, hopefully before the weekend, and see what she thinks about the logos. Here are the three refined logos that I refined on illustrator today!

Another project I worked on today was creating an inspiration board template. I thought it would look a lot better if we all used the same template and format for inspiration boards. I created areas were the main inspiration will go, which could include illustrations, logos, or anything else that’s a photograph. Another section I created is dedicated to typography, where we will spell out the name of the font in that font. I also put in another section where we can put in different color palettes. I think this will help keep everything organized and will show the client that everything is coming from the same team.

Today after class my team and I walked to the student union so we can talk about the projects we have going on and the new projects provide on the class. We start the discussion with the first draft of the t-shirts logos for Driffill School. I critiqued every single design, my suggestions were to have lines thicker, reductions of extra lines, trying thicker typefaces because having small lines on the t-shirt will make them easy to pill off from the fabric of the shirt. In general my comments were to keep the logos simple and bold.

After the logos discussion we emailed the new client that were provide today in class, the project generally speaking, in creating different types of drawings for a children book. We email the client to doable check the information and what exactly needs to be done.

Next, we start discussing the product branding client’s many brands. We assigned 3 people to for each of the brands so we can start the development of the logos according to the clients responses we emailed him last week. We also talked about the CI clubs logo and social media designs, my critics from that design were to use the real CI colors and trying a different layout to have all the information and images in a better and simple composition.

We are going to be uploading shortly all our fonts so we all try each of them and see which one works the best on our Driffill School. Below is a image of us at our meeting at student union.