For this project, I did complete everything I was wanting to complete…but the challenges were many! Pretty much everything I had in mind of accomplishing took way more time than I had originally planned. My schedule was pushed back, revised, then revised again. The main challenge was creating everything in Illustrator, particularly the tedious layering process, coloring, and managing to get the penguins to all look alike yet look like each band member at the same time. I think the T-shirts went the best, design wise and the posters the least strong. All together the process was such a huge step in learning how to design vector artwork with much more precision and with better quality. If I could do this project over I would definitely schedule everything out more, like give myself more time on each project. At the beginning of this project I was very confident I would have enough time to finish it all and still have time to make even more revisions on them, but towards the end I realized that time was limited and I needed to simply kick butt on it and finish strong. If I were to grade myself on this project, I would give myself an “A-” because I spent a great deal of time working on every part of this project, I learned a lot more about creating vector artwork, am even more comfortable working in Illustrator, but I do think that if I had more time I could have created each part of the project with even better quality. All in all I am very pleased with how this project turned out. It was truly a great process and learning experience and one of the funnest projects Iv’e worked on.
Here is my schedule, first revision and last revision:
Week 1 – Pick an idea for the project
Week 2 – Start thinking of the shirt designs and band logo – sketch out logo ideas
Week 3 – Finalize band logo – sketch t-shirt ideas
Week 4 – Scan shirt sketches onto computer – color in
Week 5 – Finish coloring shirt designs
Week 6 – Finalize shirt designs
Week 7 – Start thinking up poster designs – have sketches
Week 8 – Rough comps of posters
Week 9 – Refine designs
Week 10 – Finalize all graphics, Final designs due
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Week 1 – Pick an idea for the project
Week 2 – Start thinking of the shirt designs and band logo – sketch out ideas
Week 3 – Have rough comps up
Week 4 – Refine designs
Week 5 – Finalize shirt designs
Week 6 – Start thinking up gig poster designs – have sketches
Week 7 – Finalize band logo and have rough comps of posters
Week 8 – Refine designs
Week 9 – Finalize all graphics
Week 10 – Final designs due
Here is my work in a simplified process – sketches, refinement and final versions:
All She Wrote logo:
Concert Posters:
Merch – Shirts and stickers:
This is the process of the Penguin t-shirt, the other shirts came from the already made designs.
