Cartoon design - A4 poster

This is an A4 poster for my cartoon.  This was originally drawn then redesigned in illustrator.  The font I used in the heading is to appeal to children and the colours are fairly bright which should also appeal to children.  This was fun putting this together.

Visual Perception Vector Art

These were hand drawn in black ink pen and then redrawn in Illustrator.  The Cityscape did take a long time, but I learnt a lot of tricks on the way.

18 June Drawing Exercise 2

Unfortunately I was away this week, but what I was supposed to do was to draw a picture of a fellow student as close to photographic image as possible.  I did this at home from a photo of a classmate that I had on file.  It was a little difficult as my fellow classmate - Amanda was looking down her nose in the photograph so it was a challenging pose to draw from.  Anyway, here is my result.  Sometimes I find when I draw people, it is best that I leave the drawing for a couple of weeks and then go back to tackle the drawing again with fresh new eyes.

Hard Core (piercing studio)

Well I hope you get the message here.  The font I used is "Dream Scar" and I think it is pretty relevant to the message - holes and spikes people.  The only thing I have added to this is in the "H" I added a bar to look like a belly button piercing.  I chose a grey gradient on the font to give it a metallic look.

Big Dave's Pizza Shop

I tried to use the standard colours for a pizza shop.  I think this is good if you want something to be easily recognizable. I put a shadow behind the font as I wanted it to almost jump out at you and I have put an image of a slice of pizza in the background.  The font I used is "Brush Script medium", it has that fast food look to it.  I have put the words at a slight slant to give it some movement - make it look quick.

The Bank (nightclub)

This was an interesting one - calling a night club "The Bank".  I decided to go with an angry piggy bank.  A money box with attitude.  I used the bright blue as I thought this would look great in neon lights and also the image printed on black t-shirts.  The font I used is "GradoGradooNF" - I think it is a more 50's art deco style, which I think gives it a cool image.

The Bear Shop (a teddy bear shop)

I had lots of fun doing this.  I wanted the logo to look like it was drawn by a child. And the colours I used was for this same reason.  The font again, I wanted to look hand written.  It is "Brown bear funk" - most appropriate don't you think?  I did have trouble originally with the position of the name, but after a few changes of position and getting a second opinion (thanks Amanda), I found a great spot for it.

Studio 891 (photographer)

I experimented with this one.  I first of all wanted to use the lens as the 'o' in "Studio", but it looked out of proportion so I put the red word on the black traced camera.  The reason why I used these colours was I was thinking of dark rooms with the red light and the camera being almost a negative.  The 891 has been given a texture as I thought it just looked a bit too bland to be red also.  I didn't want people to mix up the name with perhaps a model number on the camera.

Street Act (Street Theatre group)

The font I used is "Rock it".  It has given a rustic look like an old brick wall.  I wanted to continue this rustic look by using the theatre masks (which look a bit spooky using the brush stroke that I used).

Shove It (Skate boarding brand)

Would appreciate some feedback on this one.  I am not sure it works as a logo but I think it would look cool on a shop front.  I wanted to give the image a look of flying.  The font I chose "El&font Block" because it gave a street graffiti look.

Richard Jones (Grand piano store)

I thought about using an image of a piano and thought that it was a little too obvious.  So I decided to go for a hand written manuscript look.   The colours I used in this design is to give it an authentic old paper style and the font I used "Viner Hand - ITC", was to continue that hand written look.  

Pinnacle Technologies (nuclear medicine research)

Not sure if I like this one.  I tried to have the symbol of nuclear technology (which I researched on the net) and integrated with with a mountain representing the PINNACLE.  I kept this very simple as I thought this could be on uniforms as well as signage.  The font I used is "Eras - ITC - Bold".

Phat Elephant (Golf equipment)

With this design I wanted to have the golf image as well as the elephant.  I thought of the logos that you see on golf  balls so that is why I have the elephant head on the ball.  The font is called "Elephant, regular" - most suitable don't you think.  I chose a colour that is similar to elephant skin.

Martin Shaw Dental Surgery

I quite like how this turned out.  I wanted it to look professional so I kept the detail minimal and the colours black and white.  I am proud of my tooth - it took some time to draw it but I got there.  The font I used for the name was "Perpetua Titling" as I thought it was quite conservative and the "Dental Surgery" is in Myriad Pro.  This is was so the main focus was on the dental surgeon's name.

Fantastique (Children's party venue)

Kids love balloons.  And balloons mean party, party, party.  So I keep the colours very bright and fun looking.  The font I used is "Fontdinerdotcom Sparkly".  I thought it was fun especially with the little sparkles added.  I used a hot pink again as it is a bright colour and it looked great on the bright blue background.

Extreeme Gym

For some reason I really DO NOT like designing logos for gyms.  So I found this difficult to make.  The font I used was "28 days later".  I liked the rough and rugged appearance it had.  I wanted the name to look HARD as we all know how hard you have to work out there.  I chose blue as the main colour as I felt it went well with grey and it is a clean colour.  You could also match gym equipment with this colour.  I left the word GYM as a serious font "Bank Gothic".  (As you can tell my idea of a gym is 'serious hard work', no fun ha ha). I used a chalk and charcoal effect on the "E" again to make that HARD feel come across. 

Destiny (Clairvoyants practice)

The first thing that came to mind was a crystal ball or some kind of orb.  I have given this a gradient from the middle to the outside of the circle to give it a warm spooky glow. The swish is transparent and a gradient added - again to give it a spooky and ghostly look.  The font I have used is "Star struck" - it appears to be a mystical type of font.  I used the colour purple for the font, as from memory I think I have seen a lot of these types of ads using purple.  Maybe it is a spiritual colour???

Allman's Transport (truck freight)

I decided to keep this relatively plain.  After studying the NUMEROUS trucks I pass or drive behind on my trips to and from Temora, most of the trucking companies are not too elaborate in their logos.  I have however noticed that on most trucks there are little pieces of filigree throughout the vehicle.  I have kept the colours plain and used colours that would not show up the dirt as much (which is something to consider when they spend so much time on the road.).  The font is 'Bookman Old Style - Bold Italic".  I put a black board around the font and filled it green.  Although this is a simple design - I think it works.

Abracadabra (magicians equipment shop)

When I think of magicians I think of stars and lights.  So I have put some coloured stars around the word to make it look almost like fireworks or an explosion.  The font I used was 'Bordeaux Roman Bold' as I wanted it to look conservative and adult because it was an equipment shop for magicians.  I gave the font a gradient and outer glow to illuminate it.  When I look at this I think "TA DAAA".

Synaesthesia

Today we completed a task called Synaesthesia.  I have some images that I painted whilst listening to particular music.  With these paintings I used colors and shapes to express how I felt when I listed to that particular music.

Above is number one of eight.  This was the "Simpsons" intro music.  Here is what I wrot after I painted this:

I used yellow because the Simpsons are yellow.  Bright blue was used as well as lime green - the music is comical.  I also used red because in a certain point of the music I remembered the car driving into the garage.  The shapes I used because they reminded me of the toons in the show.

It took me a while to recognise the music I was painting to but I figured it out - the Olypmics theme.  I had painted red, white and blue as I felt it had the strength and pride that the USA culture depicts.  The green and gold in waves represents the Aussie swimmers.  The coloured spots represents celebration.  And the red in the corner is an image of a puffed out chest of a soldier in his marching gear.  Pride, pride and more pride.

Didn't know the song I heard when I painted this but I liked it.  I thought of the feeling that the wind had on your face before a storm arrives - which is why I have used the above colours.

Well, this is the image I got when I heard "Going to the Chapel".  Lots of colourful confetti almost.  I thought of bright bubbles.

This music made me feel nauseous.  It gave me a REALLY bad feeling like if you watch a scarey movie about spirits or something.  Yes, I got the heebee geebees.  Hence the use of black and the red and blue were a representation of sharp notes, almost fingernails being scraped across a blackboard.

This music gave me a beachy feel.  The music gave the feeling of soft waves.

The music was very childlike and in a dream like state.  Almost a lullaby.  That is why I used pale colours and painted stars like out of a children's book.

This image was painted listening to barn yard type music.  It gave me the feeling of speed and also a feeling of going around circles.  The dots are to represent quick beats and a fast pace. I initially painted the red object in the middle - like a speeding comet.  Not a big fan of this music.

Assignment - Design Elements 3D

GPS BOX 

I have for the second part of my assignment, tidy up my original idea for MAPSAT.  I have looked at the finer details on the box design by adding the logo ONTO the actual image of the GPS system.  I also put the MAPSAT logo and the series number on every side except the bottom (as this would be the only area that wouldn't show on a shelf in a tore). Instead of using Arial font for the details on the bottom of the box I used Myriad Pro.  I thought it was a little stronger than the Arial font.  The rest of the fonts I used for the box is exactly as the original hand rendered box - slogan 'Directing the Future' is is Blair MD ITC, and the Series number is in Century Gothic.  The MAPSAT logo is Freshbot.

I have also put a flashy gimmick for a "Free Australian Accommodation Guide" that people can send away for.  I didn't have anything particular that stood out in my hand rendered assignment.  I thought having the link to Travel mate was enough, but this time I wanted to put a bit of extra 'oomf' in it.  The gimmick is a RED ribbon that is wrapped around the box so that when the promotion ends you do not have to spend extra money redesigning the box.  

I had my box layout printed in one sheet so I could have smoother edges.  I had it also printed in gloss but the only problem was that I had to have it printed in three different sheets, so I made the decision that I wanted the box to look as tidy as possible without corners folding out. If I could have printed it all on one sheet it really would have looked better as by using the gloss, the colours were a lot stronger. This was glued on by using bonding spray.

My box design has been altered slightly from my original.  I decided this time NOT to have a lip around the lid as the sides kept folding/curling out.  If this was done in mass production I would have to also wrap the box in clear plastic to prevent the lip from being damaged - extra cost that is not needed.  So I made the top of the box to slide into the box.  This also prevented the possibility for error/mismatch if I tried to print the details from the side of the box on the lip.  

MAG AD

I wanted to keep the original idea/concept of my 2D ad and just put some life into it.  I arranged to have some photos of some people in the same pose in the car (thanks, to the people that volunteered).  And this time on the positive image of the ad I put a faint glow around the edges of the MAPSAT so it would stand out.

I also thought it would be fun to stick this ad in a 4WD magazine to give it a more realistic feel.

I had this printed on gloss paper so that it would look like it is for a glossy mag ad and not a newspaper.  I believe it also makes the colours stand out that bit more.