OUIL603 - Ohh Deer Cushion Competition

One quick brief I though I would complete is the Oh Deer cushion competition, which was simple and could be completed quickly, I wasn't massively happy with all of the outcomes but it was a nice little break from the rest of my briefs and gave me the chance to just make cute little images. 

For this entry I was just messing around with texture and some weird looking colours, I was inspired by 80s patterns and was trying to go for 80's workout clothes.

I took this image from a responsive brief from Level 5, I thought he looked nice on his own and would work well on a cushion, because everyone likes animals.

I ended up carrying on with the animal theme, with more of a seasonal design. I thought that my cushion designs should look homely and inviting, so I used warm autumnal colours to go with the woodland themed pattern

Another homely design, I was looking through pinterest at pattern designs and notcied that most of them have something to do with nature, so I drew this. I'm really digging the joined up style writing which I've used a few times now, but I don't think it works very well looking back at it, I think the white is a little bit too harsh compared to the other warm colours.

My final design, I just wanted to have a bit of fun with, so I used my Sad Pupper character.

I mocked two of the cushions up and I actually think they look good! The placement of the images on the actual thing could be better, I think the designs would work if they were a little smaller, probably because they aren't repeating patterns.

OUIL603 - Guardian initials

First brief of the year!! woo!!

So this brief came through recently, Guardian want three illustrations for an article, the three prompts are:

1. Creating a perfect protfilio
2. Careers in the arts and creative industries
3. The revival of analogue methods in a world of digital advancements 

Editorial isn't normally my thing, but I thought I would give it a go and see if it can make me a fan!

Here are my initial sketches:

I found it quite difficult to find a balance between drawing something I liked and something that would fit the brief. I didn't really feel like the way I liked to work fitted with the imagery that I could come up with, that I thought would also fulfill the brief. That's probably just because I don't like doing editorial or massively conceptual work.

OUIL603 - Hildur Logo

As well as the merchandise designs, Hildur asked me to design her a logo to use on her new branding. She showed me some pictures of watercolour fonts that she liked, and asked me to do something swirly and soft looking. I tried a few different ways of painting her name, scanned it in and tried messing around with the colours, but it looked a bit naff.

In the end I decided to make a nice watercolour texture and scan those in, so I could just write the text on top digitally, way easier than painting it, you can't get rid of paint mistakes sadly.

I tried inverting the selection so that the text was the paint texture, but to me it made it a bit hard to read and looked really choppy and low res when you zoomed in, so I made a few blocks of water colour textures, combined them in Photoshop and wrote the text on top of that, which was way easier to read and looked quite simple. This option would also be a lot easier to place on different documents and images without being too distracting. 

I actually really liked these logos, I'm beginning to become a bit obsessed with trying to get good at hand drawn font things, I've been told a few times that it is one of my strengths, which I want to work really hard on improving. 

These were the final three logos that I sent to Hildur for her to choose from, in the end she chose the top one, which to be fair is probably my favourite one too.