Before going onto the final mainline project of the third course's second year, I will showcase the work I did during a brief mini project as the work in that is relevant to the next project.
This mini brief focused on us being given a form of opportunity to enter a competition with a card and gift focused client known as 'The Jungle' which we could design a new product that they could sell.
While I didn't enter, I did use this opportunity to get a form of taste within working as part of the card and gift side of illustration. As I worked on it, it also ended up allowing me to be able to redesign my character Dante from my second course due to using his character in this.
What I did was create a series of 'funny' cards with Dante but I first had to redesign him first as the original design was not ideal and my drawing style had improved since his conceptualisation. I first did a variety of pose sketches while implementing the design aspects I wanted to add to improve Dante.
With the sketch references done, the linework was refined with a black posca pen so that I had a clear reference for refining digitally.
Using Adobe Illustrator, the linework was refined digitally while implementing some expression work simply to see how they would look.
In terms of colour, Dante's colour would remain mostly the same except for a few changes to make him feel a bit more realistic. As I went onto planning the actual card designs themselves by creating very simple thumbnail sketches of ideas that I could use.
Despite these, I did end up creating completely new ideas as I added the refined linework of Dante to the Illustrator document I was creating the finals on.
In Adobe Illustrator, I drew the added aspects of the idea to the document and applied colour to all areas due to not intending to add too much detail and effects to the imagery.
These essentially helped me add more character to Dante as originally he was mostly a blank slate. I would later think of more aspects to add to him as time went on.
That's is all I have to show for this project.
If you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask.
The final pieces are on my Instagram as well if you are curious.