PICOF.net is a world images web site the place you’ll be able to share and talk about images, meet different individuals which can be keen about images, put up and obtain useful critiques and take part in weekly and month-to-month contests.
Following an necessary interface replace, Liviu wished me to create a mascot that might get individuals’s consideration and make their keep on the web site extra pleasing. With that in thoughts, I began taking a look at what sorts of mascots different websites had been utilizing. After just a little looking, I discovered that Twitter, GitHub, Duolingo, Firefox, Thunderbird, MailChimp and others had animals that represented them. Though the Web is perhaps dominated by cats (and I do love them), we agreed {that a} canine can be a greater embodiment of the eagerness and curiosity Picof’s neighborhood of photographers possesses. That’s how Paco, a photographer’s greatest buddy, got here to be.
As soon as we selected the kind of animal to make use of, I wished to depict a neighborhood breed to offer it a bit extra relevance and character. I seemed on the Carpathian Shepherd and the Mioritic Sheepdog and based mostly my sketches off their traits. I attempted totally different sizes and postures, experimented with some cartoonish variations however so as to get a cute and loveable pooch, I made a decision {that a} massive body and a full coat would work higher.
Within the sketches I wished him to have a little bit of texture on the edges of his coat, however when transitioning from paper to digital I simplified and stylized the drawing additional and the additional element grew to become distracting so I left it out. There have been many digital reiterations the place I dialed within the form relations and proportions in order that Paco would seem like an lively, enthusiastic pup. I used Picof’s coloration scheme to make him extra lifelike and slot in completely with the web site (as the breeds he was based mostly on even have gray coats).
From the beginning, a vital a part of his look had been going to be his expressions. I couldn’t go up the chance so I created 4 photographs as an alternative of 1, every exhibiting Paco in a distinct place and engaged in a distinct exercise. To ensure that him to be a photographer’s greatest buddy, he needed to be mad about images, even when not essentially a professional. So I drew him taking part in round with a digicam so as to present that Picof is all about wanting to enhance and having fun with the entire course of alongside the way in which.
I discussed to Liviu that Paco would look nice on a pin and that might give customers one thing they might acknowledge one another with and he appreciated the thought a lot that for some time he considered awarding the winner of every contest an official Picof pin that includes certainly one of Paco’s postures (in the end, the big variety of contests made it tough to reliably ship the pins so he couldn’t undergo with it).
I hope you loved my put up on how I created the mascot for PICOF.net as a lot as I did drawing Paco. In the event you discovered it useful and would love me to speak in regards to the course of behind a few of my different tasks simply depart me a remark.
Bye!
Following an necessary interface replace, Liviu wished me to create a mascot that might get individuals’s consideration and make their keep on the web site extra pleasing. With that in thoughts, I began taking a look at what sorts of mascots different websites had been utilizing. After just a little looking, I discovered that Twitter, GitHub, Duolingo, Firefox, Thunderbird, MailChimp and others had animals that represented them. Though the Web is perhaps dominated by cats (and I do love them), we agreed {that a} canine can be a greater embodiment of the eagerness and curiosity Picof’s neighborhood of photographers possesses. That’s how Paco, a photographer’s greatest buddy, got here to be.
As soon as we selected the kind of animal to make use of, I wished to depict a neighborhood breed to offer it a bit extra relevance and character. I seemed on the Carpathian Shepherd and the Mioritic Sheepdog and based mostly my sketches off their traits. I attempted totally different sizes and postures, experimented with some cartoonish variations however so as to get a cute and loveable pooch, I made a decision {that a} massive body and a full coat would work higher.
Within the sketches I wished him to have a little bit of texture on the edges of his coat, however when transitioning from paper to digital I simplified and stylized the drawing additional and the additional element grew to become distracting so I left it out. There have been many digital reiterations the place I dialed within the form relations and proportions in order that Paco would seem like an lively, enthusiastic pup. I used Picof’s coloration scheme to make him extra lifelike and slot in completely with the web site (as the breeds he was based mostly on even have gray coats).
From the beginning, a vital a part of his look had been going to be his expressions. I couldn’t go up the chance so I created 4 photographs as an alternative of 1, every exhibiting Paco in a distinct place and engaged in a distinct exercise. To ensure that him to be a photographer’s greatest buddy, he needed to be mad about images, even when not essentially a professional. So I drew him taking part in round with a digicam so as to present that Picof is all about wanting to enhance and having fun with the entire course of alongside the way in which.
I discussed to Liviu that Paco would look nice on a pin and that might give customers one thing they might acknowledge one another with and he appreciated the thought a lot that for some time he considered awarding the winner of every contest an official Picof pin that includes certainly one of Paco’s postures (in the end, the big variety of contests made it tough to reliably ship the pins so he couldn’t undergo with it).
I hope you loved my put up on how I created the mascot for PICOF.net as a lot as I did drawing Paco. In the event you discovered it useful and would love me to speak in regards to the course of behind a few of my different tasks simply depart me a remark.
Bye!