My Camera Bag, What's in yours?
I kept changing my mind on how I wanted to approach making icons for this project. I wanted to do something I had passion in, as well as making something that could be useful. The thing I wanted people to feel when they saw my icons was easy. When someone looks at my icons they should be inspired. I wanted my icons to look realistic, but creative at the same time.
And it all starts with sketching
Many people think the sketching part of the process is unnecessary. I think it is so important. This process gets rid of all your ideas that may be overdone or are simply too detailed for an icon.
Drafting
Drafting, was an interesting experience for me this time. I went from old technology to something more personal to me. To start off, I completed 6 drafts. these drafts were not what I wanted them to look like. I was truly disappointed with the way they looked. I decided to change my theme to be focused on thing that you would find in a camera bag.
My Icons
I got a lot of interesting feedback on my drafts. My original drafts were not consistent enough for icons. The icons also included lettering which should never be included in icons, this is because you can not read these if they were in a small scale. On my second set of drafts, I left some little black strokes, which I decided to remove. Once I completed my set of drafts, I posted again to see what people thought of it. The most common problem that I found was that people thought that I needed more color. I decided to take this very literally and added color that was already on one of my camera's to make all of my icons more colorful, while still keeping them realistic. All of my icons are consistent with colors, shapes and idea. I am happy with these icons. They fully meet my objective and they are consistent with each other. This project taught me so much of how to use Illustrator.
