Hello there, long time no type!
This year's been all sorts of crazy but its getting better, and hey, we're doing a lot of cool things in the second year of Graphic Design.
Last week we pushed it to the limit in creating 12 little icons for our pictograph project!
Pictographs are just simple little icons used to represent things (ex. olympic sports), and for this project we had to choose a simple theme and 3 simple colors that'd go along with the theme.
The theme I used to create my pictograph centered on baking a pink chocolate cupcake, and all of the steps it'd take to create it.
One of the biggest inspirations I had in making these were from the handle of one of my best friends, Brissia. Since she's gone to college this year, it's been tough to keep in touch with her, but I really do think about her a lot. (We live a bit close to each other, she's just a state away in Arizona after all!)
She really loves sweets and the color pink so I decided to combine both things and make this about her, just for the fun of it. And boy, did I have fun.
There were a lot of nice choices for this project, but these three up here are by far the best in the rest.
The first one was so much fun to do! I experimented with the swirls inside of the piping bag, and chose the colors for the sprinkles, it was a dream.
The second one was a bit more on the complex side, the angles were a bit of a struggle to make but I managed to make all the outline on the inside of the pan without going too crazy.
The third one was really nice too, I found out how to make the lines noticeable, but not so much as to take away from the whisk.
Next comes the concept art.
With all ideas comes a very, very, very long process in coming up with pictures and then building upon it.
In the beginning, I had a hard time choosing what kind of pictures to use in it.
At first I had an idea of using only food supplies, but then it changed to the utensils used to make the food, and finally I decided to just go ahead and combine the two. I ended up drawing them into my sketchbook and later scanned them onto my Mac and it pretty much went on from there.
From finding the right color scheme to doodling some chickens to keep me going, this took a lot of thinking. And I'm happy to say that it actually came out better than I expected.
The refined version of my pictograph series took a while, but it's finished down here! I played with my three colors and designed a nice little oven to go along with it, the inspiration for it being the ones above in my concept art.
I am really happy with how the final product turned out!
It's simple to understand, stays in the 3 color scheme and has a really cute cupcake for the cherry on top.
Let's see what we make this week!
Until then, stay sweet!
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