Assignment two: Happy Accidents

Creating an illustration piece by accident!

This assignment asks me to build upon the work I’ve produced so far and in short create a “happy accident” illustration.

First I needed to build a character based upon my work in Facial Pareidolia, I had already envisioned these a little while I was creating the faces, so I wanted couldn’t wait to bring them to life. I recreated the characters in gouache, trying to figure out body parts in quick sketches.

(Above) Course sketchbook 1
(Painting in gouache)
These two “characters” are the ones that appealed to me the most out of my characters first, I started to worry it wasn’t being very creative by doing “robot” type characters even though it is in the nature of the items (Controller and Cam) also the robot had a feeling of WALL:E although this is not intentional, just the shapes worked best.
So I felt needed to give other characters a chance to shine.

(Above) Course Sketchbook 1
Gouache + Black Posca Pen
This character is based a tin opener I couldn’t help relate to the rusty tin I found within “drawing with objects”. It felt very wild west and I could also use the “other” characters such as sharper as the loyal horse and dog as the garlic crusher.

I took the tin opener, redid the design of the tin from a block of flat to a “saloon” this was done all digitally with procreate.
I did feel this missed the objectives and goal of the assignment a bit as I was controlling the outcome, so isn’t quite the nature of an accident.

(Above – course sketchbooks)
I created a character design page for the “Cam Robot” character whom is called BOLA, the Cam is design for a game for young children, so I made BOLA’s personality a young, fun and emotional robot, I created some poses to have more freedom with my selection.

(Above) – Selection of pages / parts from my course sketch book 1
At first I wanted to maybe draw / paint the the characters sitting on the bench or branch as I have these in my sketchbook.I was thinking however I needed an unintentional (accident) with this, so far I’ve had maybe to much control over the results and style. So I went though my sketchbook and picked backgrounds I felt would be suitable as visual interest all while being “random”.

Taking the scans/photoshop I added the character to the background.

I admit the resulted turned out more “polished” than I ever meant, while I placed together digitally it actually looks more Digital than I would have thought.
Also I wonder if I came to the conclusion of this assignment too quickly, while I didn’t rush it felt I skipped steps, maybe as a lot came from work I did prior this, I know not completely settled in the new format yet as I’m quite used to key step in illustration 1 and this is quite different. This feeling also because I enjoy working in sketchbooks and creating characters that I’m not feeling like it is “work”.

I did get a chance as well to work on my gouachepainting skill set.