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We have made significant progress since my last blog post. I made some new changes based off of George’s feedback, which included adding Raju the elephant, the Wildlife SOS logo, and fixing his arms. We have gotten approval of all three of our bobble heads, and are set to move forward with creating 3-5 poses,3-5 close up expressions. We plan to get these to him as soon as possible and keep going down the list and repeating the same process for the rest of the seven illustration libraries.

We have also received a reply from the Line Lackeys Club member, about the logo ideas we sent him. He has decided that moving forward without the anchors would be best, as it has nothing to do with the club. We emailed him back and let him know that we would be getting back to him with new sketches that reflects these changes.

Our client, The Graft Group, set up a meeting with is this past Friday. The meeting was to talk more about target demographics, for his biking and hobbies website. He gave us ideas as to how we could target their demographics effectively, especially the biking website which is trying to target two different demographics. With the biking website he is trying to target the young urban female and female baby boomers. He wants the identity of the website to be feminine and to have mid-century modern feel. We have created new inspiration boards for both the biking and hobbies that better reflects the demographics we are trying to target with our designs.

Another project we have started on is the Tour de Franc t-shirt design. Bess and I both collaborated on this project. she created the illustration based of the image and i provided her with the instruments to put in the basket. Bess made some changes to illustration, and I will be providing her with new instruments; which include a sliding guitar, guitar, and a ukulele.

For Driffill elementary we created sketches for a new logo for the school. We decided as a group that are sketches were too cute, and decided to redo our sketches to something with the same kind of feel and impact as their original logo. At the moment we are working on one logo, building off of each others ideas.

Today I finished my first draft for the second poster of professor Perchuck, I took in consideration that the second poster had to be similar to the first one according to the professor instructions. I’ve created a photo montage to combine the several images we receive so it can fit the poster template. I’ll be sending my draft to my team for review, by doing that I can improve the design and the similarities to the first poster.

As well after George comments on my Rodney Mullen bubble head illustration, I went ahead and start the creation of the poses for the same. At the same time I’m looking for inspiration of his work and TED talks, so I can reflect his real personality into my illustrations.

On the other hand I starts doing sketches for Driffill Elementary School’s mascot the “RAM”, we are creating an original design for them due to a similar, well exact design found in many different schools. We need to design two different design for them. The first one need to be a energetic, aggressive, powerful. Second one needs to be a smaller version, what i mean by that is to have it look cute and non aggressive for the younger children.

Bellow is two images for my work so far this week:

George the client that requires the bubble head of important people for his children book finally received our first drafts and he replay to us with the following comments:

“Nelson Mandela Hair needs to be grey South African Flag (object of association) on a lapel pin (or color swaths behind him) Right hand (now waving) should be a fist (maybe bigger, more accented) Look at the eyes a bit more, should they be narrower? * Keep in mind that one of the biggest character traits of Nelson was his big smile and the warmth and comfort that came from him – very grandfatherly.

Rodney Mullens Looks great – nice association with skateboard.

Kartick If you look at his pictures his hair curls on his left side, a little further in on his forehead.He needs to have an elephant association with him. Check out Google images of Raju, the elephant that he helped rescue and that cried. The elephant should be next to him, behind him, her trunk can be resting on his head, but Raju should have a tear in her eye so people know who she is as well. That is what people associate with her – we want to give people hints at who these people are…

I was in change of developing the illustration of Rodney Mullens, and did my best to represent him as the real person as possible. Today also discuss about a meeting this upcoming Saturday to clarify Sam’s websites direction, for the design and feel of a logo that appeal to all audiences.

We have completed our first drafts of the active planet bobble heads. I was in charge of creating the Kartick Satyanarayan character illustration. After getting feedback from my group members, I decided to spend more time working on it today. I added more details and refined other areas of the illustration. One of the things I changed from my original illustration was the addition of detail in the hair. The original bobble heads hair looked flat with no dimension, so I added some highlights to the hair. This helped give it more dimension and the illusion of the hair being parted. I also changed his eyebrows and nose, which I believe really helped capture his likeness even more. Another thing I changed was the beard, which I added more texture to. Then I made sure there was perfect symmetry through out the whole illustration. We plan to have all of our bobble heads emailed to George, from Active Kids Planet, tonight.

I was also working on completing the set of logos for the channel islands Line Lackeys club. I had had previously completed one logo, but I now have eight logos completed. I decided to use a different font for the rest of the logos, going for “union pacific 1942″. I also added color, but it’s not the official color the president wants. I used the blue color just to show where color could be added if they would like to add color, but the logos will work just as well in black and white. I will be sending these to the president of the line lackeys club for feedback.