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The brief for this project was to create a crazy factory of sweets working with the horizon line at the bottom of the page. The mood of the illustration was to be light and fun.
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Personal work
2012
[...] As for the overall treatment, I stuck with a set number of colors again. I continue to like that direction. Also, I did away with the gradients and shading I had done in some of my previous work. I wanted to give it a more graphic look so I only added a few areas of shading on the underside of objects and a handful of highlights. One other departure was the use of a non-black color for the outline. Plus, I really played with the width of the strokes to make everything pop since I could not rely on the gradients to give the work dimension. I plan on expanding on that style in some of my future work…it gives everything a nice graphic element. To see the portfolio page and a larger version, click here. [...]