Travelling man poster

Between the group of us doing the Travelling man brief we decided to link all our pieces together by using the same colour scheme. The colour scheme was chosen because it is the colours on the travelling man logo. I suggested this in the group meeting although at the time I thought their logo was still orange and blue. But it was redesigned and it's actually a much better palette than I was originally imagining.

Because this is going to be displayed in Travelling man the Travelling man clientele is the audience. With that in mind I decided to try a bit of fan art. Because at the moment my personal work is good (or at least i think so) but it's not recognisable to me because I'm not famous enough. So I decided to piggy back on the popularity of a ongoing show. I was picking between firefly and Rick and Morty.

My first idea for a Rick and Morty piece was to do them like the Vitruvian man.

But in my thumbnail I realised that having a naked Rick behind a naked Morty made it look like some kind of weird child porn and I decided to steer clear of that. I moved on to think about doing something based on firefly because I thought it would be easier to translate real life people into my illustrations rather than trying to recreate an already drawn character in a new way. 

My plan was to have a dinosaur playing with firefly toys because one of the most popular scenes of Firefly is when Wash (the pilot) is playing with his plastic dinosaurs on the control panel; 'Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal' (herbivore to T-rex).

It took me a while to be happy with a composition because it was more of a floating spot illustration and I was trying to figure out what dinosaur I wanted to use and whether or not to include all the cast as figures. 

This is my roughs I did for the Firefly piece. It has remained unfinished because I found it really frustrating trying to make the characters recognisable and I think that took away from my usual playful drawing and they ended up much more static and awkward. I decided to abandon this idea because I was struggling with the first two characters and there's another 7 to do. This is meant to be a small brief and it wasn't worth getting overly stressed by.

So I went back to the drawing board and back to Rick and Morty fan art. I decided that I should do it based on my favourite scene from the latest season. The show is normally full of humour and jokes about serious things. Which I think gives it a light feel as a show, like it's not a heavy thing that takes a while to get into. Its more like a guilty pleasure as you laugh at people being dismembered and robots making babies. But this scene I feel was one of the best parts of Rick and Morty. Atleast the most emotive scene. It breaks the security  I felt in how this show will work and make me feel. It is paired up with a song that really makes it for me as well. The combination of the music and the animation just created such a blow of sadness, it was a shock. 

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