Base Drawings to Icons

When I turned in my first thirty base drawings, only two of the thirty were working. So I redid them all, but not without sketching and looking at others base drawings first. The above picture is two sheets of sketches I did. One is with a chisel tip sharpie and the other was done with charcoal. These were just practice sketches to help get the feel of what the assignment was. After I felt comfortable with what was supposed to be done, I moved onto the thirty base sketches.

 Charcoal

Pencil on grid paper

Sharpie

Final four sets of base drawigs

The base drawings chosen were: the charcoal, all views of one of the corner; a few pencil on grid, some fragmented and geometric and some symmetrical; and a few brush and ink ones with organic curves. These base drawings were used to make my first twenty icons. 

The top row of icons were based on the fill and line quality styles.

the second row were based on the framed and fragmented styles.

The third row were all based on the organic style.

The last row was based on high contrast and 3D and geometric styles.

The chosen directions to pursue with a set of icons were the high contrast 3D (as seen in bottle in bottom left corner) and the fragmented geometric style of the car (second row, right).

The high contrast suits the culture. The style resembles what a gangster thrown under a spotlight at the police station getting grilled with questions might look like. The geometric and fragmented shapes resemble what a modern icon would look like. The 3D high contrast style doesn't resemble modern icons too well, but these gangsters are also not modern so the high contrast style is the way to go.

These two sets of six icons are some examples of what was crafted for each direction. The final choice of direction is the 3D high contrast. A lot of work is needed in refining these though. The angle and lighting are going to be essential in perfecting these.