Me and Illustration
The first assignment span across two tutorial sessions and includes several stages of design process from brainstorming, thumbnail sketches, full rough development, and digitization of the rough to prototype.
The theme of this assignment revolves around Me Myself and I, manipulating objects that I like or hate to form my name: Chris.
1. Brainstorming
The design process starts by listing words that describe my character, personality, and things that I like or dislike.
Bossanova
Caramel
Childhood
Cinnamon
Coffee
Jazz
Music
Nature
Vanilla
Some photos from my photo library that gave me inspiration for this assignment:
2. Thumbnails
Next, I picked some of the words from the list and set it as the theme for my thumbnail sketches, 8 thumbnails in total, to form my name.
The first four thumbnails are about the nature.
And the next four are about my childhood.
3. Roughs
Out of these eight, two themes were further developed to full roughs with each theme being developed to two roughs, making the total number of roughs to four.
The ‘nature’ theme:
The ‘childhood’ theme:
4. Prototypes
Two out of four roughs were selected to be developed to prototype using Adobe Illustrator.
5. Final
Feedback gathered during critique session:
- Font types used in both images can be changed to something that reflects theme.
- The ‘h’ and ‘i’ in childhood theme can be made thicker.
Following the feedback, I applied changes to the prototypes with careful selection of colours and typography to communicate the theme.
