Project1

Week 1 | Week 4

Mohamed Hammam Chebel (0342483) / B'des. Creative media (hons)
Illustration and visual narrative
Taylor's university lakeside campus

Project 1 | Vormator 

Instructions 

Vormator Project 

Fig 1.1 given shapes 

Create a unique character using simple shapes using Adobe Illustrator.

we were allowed to duplicate, reflect, color, add textures and shades.

Transforming the shapes is not allowed in this project.  

PROGRESS

I started to explore, by watching animated movies and playing some video games. Eventually, I was inspired to create a robot imaginary character. My inspiration was by the animated movie from the 80's "Castle in the sky " . the robot attracted me so I started sketching to develop it and create my own robot. Below are some of my sketches of the robot.

Fig 1.2 sketch 1

                                                                    

                                              

 Fig 1.3 sketch 2

Fig 1.4 sketch 3

Fig 1.5 sketch 4

Fig 1.6 sketch 5

final 

As you can see in the images above I did some rough sketches of my character I kept the robot concept and tried to modify the original robot from the movie castle in the sky to give it a personal touch.

After I was done with those sketches, I used Adobe Illustrator to make a silhouette of my character.

Below is my vormator silhouette.

  

Fig 1.7 Robot silhouette 

This silhouette represents the overall shape of my character, I will use it to build my character, after this I will add details to this silhouette.

  It was a little bit challenging since I never used this software before, but I managed to illustrate my idea using simple shapes. I'm still practicing so I can get used to the software and discover its features.

Fig 1.8 Final illustration 

and color exploration

This is my final illustration of my character. I duplicated and arranged the shapes to give the character more details.

I did color exploration online, I used adobe color wheel to pick these colors, I've chosen four colors which reflect technology and robots in my point of view. 

I used this image as a reference for color exploration.

   

Fig 1.9 color reference

Fig 1.10 Adobe color

CARD LAYOUT

After I was done with the main character I started working on the card layout.

so the task is to put the character in a Pokemon card. 

Below is my final card layout.

Fig 1.11 Card layout

You can refer to my sketchbook for This project by clicking HERE.