Illustration & Visual Narrative: Exercise 2 (Illustrative Typography)

Illustration & Visual Narrative: Exercise 2 (Illustrative Typography)

Using a Pictionary generator, we would generate two words that would help illustrate the said words into typography. I had words that were really really tough to put it together such as meteor and frying pan. I kept generating until I found a pair that I could see myself designing and got seaweed and stingray (Figure 1.1). 

Figure 1.1: Pictionary Generator

Drafting Process:

I started to draft my stingray and seaweed. Initially, I wanted a body of a stingray with the words inside the outline with seaweed filling up the spaces (Figure 1.2). As I fill the colours in, I realised it looked much more creative if the words were made by seaweed (Figure 1.3).

Figure 1.2: Initial Draft 

Figure 1.3: Seaweed Stingray Draft

After showing Ms. Anis my work, she said that there were too much seaweed and she didn't like the design. We talked about a stingray inspired by Moana. She helped me create a new design which I then incorporated some of my ideas into her initial suggestions. I started to draw on my iPad and showed it to Ms. Anis on that day itself (Figure 1.4). Ms. Anis said it was good and that I should give a more seaweed texture to the seaweed. Using references from Moana, I drew a stingray that were inspired by Moana and added a more seaweed effect towards the seaweed I drawn in the drafts.

Figure 1.4: Seaweed Stingray Inspired by Moana

Figure 1.5: Coloured Draft of Seaweed Stingray

Final Design:

After the colouring, I decided to change the colour scheme as I wanted the stingray to be glowing-in-the-dark and made the background dark blue (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Final Design of Seaweed Stingray