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So my idea was to combine K.K.'s glorious smile with his album covers in some way or another, that was my final conclusion to my research, but while I did my research I was producing other sketches and ideas as well, some of which ended up being in the final designs I went for.
I had achieved uniformity but perhaps to too much of a degree?? I'm not sure... I attempted to make each one unique in some way while also heavily sticking to my theme, I'm very happy with how they came out in the end! I possibly should have done more mockups of how they would look as pins rather than as vector images and perhaps that is something I will look into doing at a later date. For now, K.K. keeps grinning.
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If you somehow don't know, K.K. Slider is an in-game character that also happens to be a musician in the animal crossing series, I wasn't initially going to focus on him but rather my favourite 'villagers' from the game. But the more I looked into it, the more I realised many and I mean many had done it long before I had. K.K. to a degree had been done a lot before as well but I felt he was the one with the most potential to make something new and fun with because of his repertoire of interesting faces, poses, songs etc. Basic white dog design besides. I knew I could work with a particular feature/features of his that could make my idea stand out and different from the infinite other cutesy K.K. designs.
so after doing research I decided to get stuck right into drawing and coming up with some concepts for my band, I decided I was going to go for a possible grungy pop punk band, if that's even 3 genres that can crossover. Well, essentially I was going to take a grungy punk drawing and give it some bright pop colours. At least that's what I was rolling with initially. A lot of these were concept sketches that I had come about from combining zombies and mushrooms, of course I did some concept drawings of some 'shrooms too. There was one I specifically remember from home where this tree had to be cut down long before I moved in because of a fungal disease. A few years later since moving in there were these massive mushrooms growing on the side of it, thought they looked cool. I kind of wanted to stick to those kinds of mushrooms instead of the classic toadstools. You can also see in my notes that I was starting to form ideas on how I wanted it to look colour wise (I still lack the confidence to apply colour analogue-y)  I then moved onto doing some digital thumbnails and concepts, I kind of knew what I was going for at this point with the colour schemes and illustration however I did want to experiment a bit before just to see if I was happy with that I wanted to go for. The program I use for digital art (clip paint studio) also comes with a wide selection of screentones to choose from so I had many options when it came to what kind of sort of effect I wanted with my poster. Here are the first 2 I sort of came up with, I wasn't especially happy with either but I was happy to experiment with things on my program to really learn what I can do. I liked the second one I came up with compared to the first however it wasn't the vibe I was going for. It felt more indie than what I was initially planning for. Definitely didn't scream the vibe fungal pandemic as a name shouts to me. So I moved onto my final idea.
 The band name I got was Fungal Pandemic, strangely enough it felt very relevant for this year to get such a band name. It feels like to me as a good way to relieve me of my stress that this year has brought me on so far. The first thing I immediately wanted to think about was the feeling the band name gave me, particularly with genre. It feels very punk-ish, maybe a bit psychedelic. Like a modern band that tries to imitate genres popular from the 60s and 70s, a bit of a genre jumper maybe? Going for chaos perhaps like the year at hand. So with that in mind I decided that this band would have something a bit greusome, a bit grotesque as their poster.  Firstly though I looked into mushrooms that I could use, a lot of the ones I found were the type that grew on trees, I began to be fascinated with the fact that fungus really do spread like an infection, I mean humans can develop fungal infections so my brain was sort of going down that route so far.
 Another influence behind this idea was the game The Last Of Us. The game has zombie like creatures that used to be human but are infected with a fungus like disease that much like the fungus that takes over ants, it completely controls a human's mind and takes over their body too. It all felt very fitting to the theme of Fungal Pandemic, and I thought it would be a central theme to the band.  I decided at this point to make a second board on pinterest and look up some zombie related graphics. Unsurprisingly zombies are very popular to draw and a lot of the graphics I found were very similar to the images I was already coming up with in my head. A lot of bright colours, a mix of greens, pinks and purples would be good and eyecatching for the viewer. I had a vision of something graphic and gory but the colours are quite pop-ish in nature and bright as a sort of contrast to the darker theme. Also in general I don't really like zombies, they're the one thing that genuinely scares me in concept so I wanted to at least mess around with some brighter colours. Below are a select few drawings I found to stand out for me from the board! I also decided to generate some colour palettes based on the pinterests using a website I found called Coolers, I've been using it quite a bit recently for my personal work, it's a great way to find colours you wouldn't usually consider. I used different terms such as pop and zombie to find other palettes too that other people had created. It's a handy little resource to find different colour palettes you might want to use and a convenient way to see a colour mood you're trying to achieve before you even fully put colour to paper.  |
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