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Burly Gurls
This was a project for a new company, an all-female moving company. They wanted a series of characters that showed cartoon women that were serious about their jobs and with distinct personalities.
All the characters have unique female body types.
Olga has a curvy pear shape, Helga is a muscular brick house, Asa is short & stocky and Inga is tall & slim. They are all strong and ready to put in a hard day's work.
The assignment called for 4 individual characters, the 4 women as a group and a logo. (You can see a few of the logo concepts here.)
Below is a series of sketches I did while determining the look of the women. Got Olga and Inga right of the bat. Helga and Asa required a few kicks at the can.
Also demonstrated is a set of close-ups of Olga tracking her development from scribble ... to linear ... to finished illustration ready to post on the Burly Gurl website (coming soon).
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Olga sketched in pencil.
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For this project Olga was inked by hand.
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Towards the end of the design process the client decided on some
additional details like the 6 on Olga's t-shirt. No problem - drew them
separately and over-laid the new elements in photoshop. |
Colour was added digitally. Several colour schemes were tried
until just the right combination was determined. (The client found
inspiration in a picture of wool skeins found on a crafter's website.) |
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