One Day Project- Valentines

For this one day project, I was given the task to produce an illustration that links to Valentine's Day.

When coming up with ideas, I started by making character designs and by doing some research.

I researched into Greek and Roman mythology and how certain God's and Goddesses link to Valentine's Day. Within this research, I discovered myths in Roman mythology about Cupid. There's a myth about how Cupid makes Apollo fall in love with a Goddess by striking him with a golden arrow. Afterwards, he strikes the Goddess with a lead arrow which causes her to feel repulsed by him.

I believe that my illustrations are successful because they visually communicate a story linked to my research. Also, I think that my work is successful because I've combined the uses of typography and illustration. I like this piece of work because of the patterns and mark makings that I've applied tot eh characters and text. For the colour scheme, I wanted to choose softer shades. So I decided to pick a mixture to lighter and pastel colours. I applied colour to my work by using Photoshop.

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Packaging Briefcase- Character Designs:

Along with my packaging designs, I've decided that I want to produce collectables. I want to do this as young children like to collect toys and I think that this will encourage this target audience to keep wanting the product. Each collectable is going to be based off a benefit of dark chocolate so that there that the product can be educational based. So far, I have designed three characters. Hetty Heart, Merlin Moon and Sally Sun. I thought that giving them fun names would work for young audiences. After producing my character designs, I've started to apply colour to them. I think that the primary colour scheme works as children find bold colours more eye-catching. For the next stages, I'm still going to continue to create more character designs so that I can develop them even further. Also, I'm going to continue to produce more designs so I create more collectables. As I've designed characters based on the benefits of eating dark chocolate, Veronica advised m...

Illustration & Application- Paige Maddox

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