Skier - Entrepreneur - Adventurer
Image: Ten Essentials Illustrations
Task: Create of a series of 10 illustrations on a topic of your choosing.
Design Software: Adobe Illustrator
Time Frame: August-September 2018
Course: Image
Summary: Ideation, Sketching, Image Trace, and Color
Details:
The project began with ideation through mind maps and sketching. After going through several ideas and getting peer feedback, I settled on my topic of the "ten essentials". These ten items (first aid, shelter, fire, navigation, water, food, jacket, flashlight, knife/tool, and sun protection) are key to bring when in the outdoors. I love to spend time backpacking and hiking, so this topic is also of personal interest.
In the next stage, I created ten final sketches and brought them into Illustrator. I used image trace to convert the pixelated sketches into vectors. I then did a number of smaller touch-ups to clean up lines.
Finally, I explored color schemes and various backgrounds using live paint. I settled on an earthy palette to reflect the theme of nature, and monochromatic backgrounds to give the images a bit of visual pop.
