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Alligator Illustration Research.

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I have decided to go back to research and see what other styles I can apply to my alligator design. I did some realist Alligator research drawing, however I feel that if I want to add character and a fun element to my designs I will have to stick to basic and cartoon illustrations. I searched on Pinterest to see if I could find some fun illustrations that showed lots of character to the drawings, these are my favourite:

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What I like most about these illustrations was how they portrayed the alligators as being friendly, cute and harmless which I what I want to show in my illustrations too. I also like the use of watercolour effects to relax to the fact Alligators habitat is lakes and water. When I am home over easter I would like to get the watercolours out and experiment with paints, as I feel it would give a different effect than if I made it digitally, even though I prefer digital work overall. I plan to experiment most, if not all of these styles so I am going to create some pastiches and see which style I enjoy the most and looks the strongest.

Website Layouts

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For my company website layout, I wanted to keep mine a simple grid layout to show text box’s and images in a clear manner. For inspiration I looked at website layouts on Pinterest to see what worked well and keeping it modern in terms of style and trends.

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I realised that most of these designs stuck to a grid layout and used a lot of images. I took these designs in mind and started designing my own website. I used my colour scheme and placed my logo on the top left of the page with the navigational bar along the top. I need wanted images that swiped across the page and hyperlinked to different pages. I also searched for free stock images to include in my webpage of people with tattoos and tattoos being created. I did my first website draft in photoshop, this is what I was working on, however I stopped and started it again but developing it in InDesign:

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PROJECT 3 – BRANDING AND IDENTITY

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For Project 3, we were given examples of several made up companies and asked to pick one to design and create branding medias for that company. The one example that stood out to me was the company ‘High Seas Ink’ as the theme and iconography of pirates, ships and the seaside came straight into my mind, which is one theme I would love to work on. I thought this was a great way to expand ideas on paper and digitally to create a mix of both modern and vintage materials to make ‘High Seas Ink’ appear like a successful company in its market area.

I have also taken advantage of critisms from my first and second projects, which stated I needed to develop my skills in layout and typography. I have started drawing and experimenting with paper and pen for my typography for my logo and the name of the company. I am also currently drawing my first draft for my logo, with the help of influences on Pinterest, mainly of images of ships and anchors:

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As I was looking for influences on my logo, I can across this image of tattoos, and I had originally thought about including paint and ink splatters onto my designs, I really like this idea and I want to experiment with this for this project, I love the effect all the colours have together.

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