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Client: Yes I'm A Designer ®
Year: 2019
I wanted to showcase this illustration work I did for a design contest held by a Youtube Influencer at 99d. It was a featured community contest joined by many designers.
THE CREATIVE CHALLENGE:
"To come up with an illustration that represents your idea of creativity
and what it means to be a creative person."
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Actual sketches
/// IDEAS AND METAPHOR ///
After carefully studying the creative brief with lots of inspiration, I decided to choose the path of making a metaphorical illustration.
I googled for various of things that symbolize the idea of creativity. Then, I played around and sketched using pen and paper for some periods of time. I focused mainly on finding ways to interestingly combine such things. I wanted it to be like a metaphor. For the style, I adopted using line art matching the client's mood board.
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