• I am much, much happier with how my sketchbook development is evolving now that I have moved away from small, bold thumbnail designs and onto larger, circular proposals. This allows me to play with the available space to understand my composition, consider different viewpoints in a much more successful manner, and provide a bigger area to test materials. I've enjoyed having a larger canvas to create bold, striking imagery.
• Cut paper has been a great way of realising how vectors could look and I felt like I was using the pen tool in Illustrator as I moved the knife from angle to angle! Great practice!
• Now that I have realised my initial 10 ideas, I want to hone in on the ideas I think have the most potential to be turned into a sticker design; whether this is because I like the tag line / idea, the viewpoint and perspective of the design, the colours and shapes I considered, feel like an audience could connect with it, and so on.
Potential Sticker Designs
• Watch Where You're Going! is very personal to me as it's something I face Every. Single. Day. without fail. Someone, who has been blessed with the wonderful gift of vision, purposely disables themselves in a busy area by attaching their attention to their phone screen - rather then watching where they are going! The amount of times poor Tami has had a paw stepped on, a bag whacked in her face or a suitcase banged into her body, is disgusting and disrespectful and I have absolutely no qualms with giving said offender a piece of my mind! People bumping into me, running past me and brushing against my arms because of being too concerned with their snapchat... things, whatever the lingo is nowadays, is alarming and makes me feel so uncomfortable! Hopefully this is a design a lot of people can connect with, as it mustn't just effect me. Offenders are everywhere and bump into other sighted people too! I particularly like the viewpoint from Tami and how she must see things; a clever human not being so clever anymore and totally ignoring her as she does an important job! "Don't walk into me, human! Okay... never mind, just step on my foot. That's hurts. That's fine."
• Enjoy Nature: This, admittedly, is something I didn't adhere to when I didn't have Tami 2 years ago. After leaving the comfort zone of high school where my friends looked after me and I could blend in, ignoring my disability as much as I could, moving onto college was difficult and being the only girl in a class full of boys was horrendous. I stuck out like a sore thumb and they quickly learned of my severe visual impairment; choosing to bully me by throwing things at me, calling me awful things, and purposely moving the things around at my desk space so I couldn't find them. After trying to ignore this for a few months I couldn't take any more and had to drop out - thus, letting go of my dream to have an art degree. This experience, in addition to being attacked at a concert shortly afterwards, meant I didn't leave the house for 7 years as my blindness took over and the little sight I had diminished. Having Tami meant I could enjoy the world again and I still feel like such a child full of wonder when I walk through the leaves or hear the birds sing outside and enjoy the fresh air! Being able to go out for a walk without having a major accident is such an achievement and enjoying nature is a massive bonus - and I feel like a lot of people take this for granted. I really love the simple paper cuts I used and hopefully could imbue some of the magic I feel when I'm standing in the rain, lying on the grass or being among the trees! The simple shapes and forms worked well here too in how they take up most of the available space, zooming right in on the beauty.
• Don't Make Obstacles! I mentioned this in my previous post and still really enjoy this theme. It is something I would like to develop further with additional roughs, thumbnails, iterations and character designs before possibly taking into the Adobe Illustrator software. I need to condense down my amount of colours if I am to take this idea further. What would convey the immediate danger from these objects without making my sticker unattractive and undesirable? I still want to have a playful approach so need to give careful thought to my colour choice...
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