Brave New World idea development & final pieces

Here is my development and final illustrations for the Brave New World pieces. This is excluding my cover design.

More work on the Holly project

I'm having an awful lot of fun working on this project about Holly. It's very creative and flexible and I'm really enjoying mixing her lifestyle and personality in with my own work and style! I'm still unsure how everything will fit in together as it's becoming harder than I thought but that will come at a later date! For my favorite images of Holly that I'm using I hand drew them out and did a tattoo technique called power lining on the image to thicken up certain lines. I kept these originals and copied them to add more line detail, especially in the hair and eye lashes. I've then rescanned them into the computer and developed them on Photoshop for experimenting to see the sort of styles and colour I could use and work.

The Art of Promotion

I felt that for this project it was very important to look at ways people promote their skills/products to the world and how they get noticed. In this blog there are various types of promotion work that I thought were different, unique or really stood out. I wanted to have a look at why they appealed to me and if this could have a positive impact with my Illustration Futures project and promoting Holly and in the future, my own self promotion.

 I thought that the above image had a really nice link of typography, colour and illustration. I think that making a poster similar to this style with information about Holly, maybe looking at hobbies perhaps could be really worthwhile and become a fashionable information poster or post card to have in the advertising campaign. 

I really like the little cupcake image as I think that food and memory are very close and that if someone gives you free food - you are more than likely to remember them! Although I don't think I could bribe my tutors with lovely cupcakes I think that having some form of edible goodness in the pack could be a good extra touch to show I've done a little more research and give a different take on the advertising project.

I thought that the memo pad head was a really funky and unique idea, especially as the hair line goes back as the head gets smaller. I think small interactive objects like this are really effective in showing off and being kept on desks to easily be seen and used. I think anything you can give in a pack that has a "real" use to it and can be kept and used has more chance of being memorable and thus having an impact on the person using it.

I thought the above poster was a really cool little poster idea with a bit of attitude in it too. I'd really like to use fairly realistic images of Holly that are a bit stylised  with text and this image gives me a bit more inspiration and an idea of what I'd like to create or the layout and styles I like.

I thought that this card was funny, cheeky and good because it was interactive it would have an impact on the audience. I think something like this makes a plain business card more fun and interactive.

I thought that little sweets like this could be really good in a pack as they don't go off/mouldy/stale and could be a good little extra to put into the pack.

I think having things to make and do make good promo packs great and that if you get things that people interact with and make they are more likely to keep it around on their desks and remember you, just like the little plane above. 

The above posters and card I really liked because they all had unique colourful styles that all have various ways of promotion. I I like the fact they all have their own styles and have had a lot of though put in to the composition, typography, illustration styles and content to make them stand out and be memorable.

Starting Illustration Futures

For illustration futures we've only got one pretty big task to complete. I've paired up with the lovely Holly and I now have to create a big promotion to advertise her to a possible flat mate! Fortunately, Holly's one of my closest friends and she's an utter doll and I've got lots of ideas of how I'm going to throw it together!

Firstly, Holly and I sat down and wrote down everything we know about each other and lots of things we didn't know. We listed each other's hobbies, favourite films, books, artists and other things such as likes, pets and what we could use as a unique selling point for each other. I'm not sure what Holly chose for me but I found out she can cross one eye without crossing the other! I thought this could be a really fun design I could create into a little logo that appeared on each little thing that was created for the project. I thought it would be good as it would be fun and defiantly as a logo would be easily recognisable and memorable!



I then started to look at what I could create for "The Holly files" as I shall refer to them. I looked at how I could present everything, I like the idea of it all being contained in a mannar that could easily be stored by the person who has it and would not take up too much space. As Holly loves her illustration, books and have aspirations in publishing I thought that containing everything in something the size of a typical hard back book would be perfect. I'm currently deciding weather to physically alter a book that Holly likes to contain all of the parts for the promotion/advertising pack or weather to create a sectioned box that looks like a book from the outside.

A practise cube Holly!

I've also started to look at what I could contain in the box. I think I will have some sort of paper craft in there for the handler to create and make themselves. I think I would like to make a cube template of Holly that the person could colour in and create. Also, as I'd like to keep Alfie the rabbit involved as well I'd like to create him in to a "Holly mascot" and create a rabbit origami template and maybe a 3-D cuddly keyring as well. I'd also like to have lots of paper promotion things inside such as postcards and posters. These would be created both by hand drawings and digitally to fit in with the project brief. Finally, the other idea I am very keen to put into pack would be a short animation of Holly that I could make. I would really like to use stop motion animation - but I am a pretty rubbish animator so we shall see how this pans out!