Mini-Project 1

For the two characters that I created, I took inspiration from two actual stuffed penguins that my girlfriend and I own. We have a weird thing that we do where whenever we go to a zoo, we try to see if they have any stuffed penguins in the gift shop that are an odd shape. So far, we have two; a circular penguin that we have named Phillip J. Penguin, or Mr. P, for short, and a cube shaped penguin, that we call Cubert. In my visual that I created, Mr. P is the one with the hat and Cubert is the, well, cube-shaped one. For my project, I used the website Canva, which is usually used for creating logos, flyers, posters, etc. The reason I chose this method is because it’s a website that I am familiar with and because I thought it would be interesting to try to create characters with a limited amount resources provided to me. For my characters, I pretty much only used the library of shapes that are provided to you to create my characters, and for the most part, I think that it worked out pretty well. For the design of my characters, I would say that I probably took the most inspiration from Allie Brosh and her Hyperbole and a Half blog/comic. The simplistic and kind of crude way of that she draws her characters makes it more relatable for her audience because it shows them that that, even if you have no training, or even talent, really, you could also create a comic and also have a chance to become successful with it. I used her as an example for a couple of reasons; the first being that I, myself, am not very talented when it comes to drawing, painting, etc. The second reason I chose her is simply because I enjoy her comics.