For our first presentation at University, we were asked to produce self promotional material for one of our lecturers. This included a business card and event idea. To give us some ideas, the whole course could ask one question to gain more of an insight in to their personality, taste and style they like. From one of the questions asked, our lecturer Michelle said she loved the Illustrator Wayne Pate. I had never heard of him before, but I am so glad I've been introduced to him. His style is very playful, fun and whimsical, the colour palette very vibrant with bright reds, yellows and blues. Taking Wayne Pate as our main inspiration, we produced a business card for our lecturer Michelle.
To begin, I drew a sketch in the style of Wayne's work, now I'm no illustrator but I enjoy drawing so it was fun to try a different style of drawing, usually I do more realistic biro and pencil drawing. We chose to include a magnifying glass in to the image, as this was our theme throughout our promotional material. From this, I then scanned the image in and edited it on Photoshop (I need to download illustrator soon!) and added colour. I'm quite pleased with the end result, its very eye catching and vibrant, similar to Pate's own work. Although I probably would have changed the one eye to two eyes and made it less Cyclops like! The back of the card was kept simple, the writing purposely small so the recipient has to enlarge it with a magnifying glass (again, keeping with our mystery theme we chose). It was fun drawing again, felt like I hadn't done it in ages.
Feels like the first few weeks in University have been really helpful, already started being more creative and getting involved in different ways to promote yourself, which will be helpful when creating my own business card in the coming weeks. One of the first things we did to help us with our promotional material was to create a 'What I Like' moodboard representing your favourite things. I chose to draw mine in biro and add watercolour.
What I Like..
Posession Poloroid camera
Music Acoustic
Place Home
Book Banksy: Wall and Piece
Comfort Bed
Food Chinese
Aversion Driving lessons
Shoe Converse
Weather Sunny/cloudy/not too hot
Animal Cat
really like your illustration! xx
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