#101 Children's Book Class

Developing characters, drawing out adorable scenes, reaching to a child's imagination... the perfect class for me! I've had a lot of fun with it and can't wait for what's to come.

Character design

Heheheheh

Some artists I kept in mind of this project...
My discovery of the great Carter Goodrich (shown below) was a huge influence on what I wanted to mold my work to look like.

Gary Kelley has been an inspiration of mine for a while now.

The influence may not be obvious at first, but it was more about injecting shapes and character to every element in the piece, although it does not have shading or hue, I hope that comes through!


I went to the library and researched a number of children's books, trying to nail a style and theme that kids would like.

#88 Character Design- Board Game

My advertizing team and I are assigned to create a board game from scratch.  I was in charge of making the game pieces and characters for the graphics and cards, as well as designing the "book covers".

This was a pretty fun project considering what I've had to put up with this "team" class all year.

trying different styles

Africa

Asia

South America

Australia

Europe

Antarctica

North America

Above are the character designs and below are the book cover designs.  The game is called "culture Quest" and all the characters represent a certain continent.  Here, each character has a book in which they will have a unique adventure.  One of my other team members put the text on them, so I don't really have names for them or their little books!  You can make up adventures for them, instead.  ;)

And the game pieces!

THESE ONES were lost and I had to make new ones :(

but it's ok! THESE ONES turned out great :)

Africa- Elephant
Asia- Small boat
South America- Submarine
Australia- Airplane
Europe- Hot Air Balloon
Antarctica- Large Boat
North America- Grand Prix Car


I used pretty shiny paint, so that was fun.



Here's the final game all together!

#85 Sketchbook nonsense

I've been wondering to do with my sketchbook pages...an art tumblr might be a good choice.  I'm just so lazy about it. Consolidating on my blog seems like the easiest way to go lol.  The only problem being, it's not as accessible as tumblr or facebook... Oh well!  I will get on it eventually here and definitely make a website.  When that happens, you all will be the first to know  :)

happy endings baw

a bit late for valentines day