Illustrator Year 2

Illustrator’s Toolkit: Illustrator

For our work using Illustrator we were given a brief to design and present a series of 3 enamel badges based on an existing property, along with the enamel badges we were to create a backing card design and a logo / branding for the collection.

I began with research into enamel badges:

RauroCraft

Poxei

Kenji Land

Creating small thumbnail ideas:

Idea 1: Vocaloid Franchise

Original Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin Product Box Art by KEI

Original Megpoid Gumi Product Boxart by Masami Yuuki

Stylising the original designs to fit a simpler format for an enamel badge

Working in Illustrator

Working up the second badge

Finished Designs - to stick to the four colour limit (+black for the lines) I changed the eyes back to black and removed the two shades of green in Gumi's hair

Working on the background

Basing the background on the colours / patterns seen in the Project Diva game art

Changing the backgrounds for each individual pin while keeping the same pattern

Titles - When looking for which font to use for my badge backings I found the font used for the logo of the Vocaloid software, Gill Sans. I also changed the franchise name from 'Vocaloid' to 'Voiceloid'.

Continuing to fit the brief, taking an existing franchise and changing it I changed the characters' names in the final packaging
(Original Names: Hatsune Miiku, Kagamine Rin, Megpoid Gumi)
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I also added a blur to the inside of the badges, and added a second blur layer beneath to give the badges more depth

Final Version

With development outside of Illustrator

Idea 2: Cryptids - this idea does not completely match the brief (as it is not an existing franchise) however I chose to develop these badge ideas to continue practicing using illustrator