Monday, June 22, 2015

Mars Cornhole Board Process Part 1: Thumbnails

I was commissioned to design a cornhole board with the theme centered around the mission that sent the Opportunity rover to mars. In the beginning we weren't entirely sure what that should include. It was initially just going to be the Delta rocket and Mars in the background. It later changed to include Opportunity as well. 

I started off with a lot of little pen and marker sketches. I also did a lot of planet studies in oil, just playing around with different textures and mediums and brushes etc. 

Mostly pen and sharpie sketches. Some oil studies too.



After a few dozen of those, I brought it into Sketchbook Pro and did some super rough tonal/ color thumbnails, just to get a little more mood into it. But nothing is final here or detailed at all. 



Putting a little tone and color in
Some of the weirder ones.

After we settled on the layout, I did some research and worked up a slightly more detailed drawing of the whole thing.

The final layout 9 x 18 in.


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