I started drawing up ideas for the postcard for The Yakuza but I found it quite hard to come up with ideas, so I switched to looking at the Pink Sari Gang
First I tried the more realistic look, and used images from Pinterest as reference. But I really didn't like the graphic look, probably because it's not what I usually do and I'm not used to using such neat and bold tools like felt pens.
I was trying to decide whether or not I should show the whole gang or just one woman in the middle. I thought it would be better just to have one woman in the middle so she could be larger in order to show more detail and pattern.
This was just me experimenting with making pattern in Illustrator, seeing as it took A LOT of time to create each little bit of pattern I decided I would just repeat it instead of drawing lots of different individual shapes.
I felt like seeing as there isn't much of a wide variety of imagery related to The Bloods that I couldn't really do much experimenting. I knew that I wanted to include the hand symbol seeing as it's the most recognisable thing, and the other things related to it, like street signs, didn't really go well with the design of the rest of the postcard.
After doing a little bit more research into The Bloods, I found more visual imagery that I could include in the work, Piru, which is related to where The Bloods originated from, helped me to develop more compositional sketches for that postcard. I began to like these designs much more than I had before.
I kind of had the same problem with the Neo Nazi postcard as what I had with the Bloods postcard, as their is a very limited amount of visual imagery that is easily recognisable and associated with the Neo Nazis. I played around with a little bit of the imagery and ended up finding a source image which I used to trace over.
La Cosa Nostra was by far my favourite gang to work with. I found the imagery associated with them the most visually interesting and easy to put down onto paper. I started out by looking at what they used to wear, as I thought this would be the most obvious thing to work with, in particular the suites and hats.
Again I found some reference images to draw from, and put them into Illustrator to trace over the top of.
After some visual play I decided on how I wanted to layout the final postcard, I did some rough sketches because I knew that once I put it into Illustrator, the way it would look digitally would help me to decide on the finishing touches to the image, for example, the background.
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