First Visual Experiments

Inspired by the “Harry Potter Obama Sonic” backpack I went on to experiment creating my own “bootleg prints” with popular characters from television:

I chose the Avengers because they’re one of the most popular cinema franchises today, exactly the type of characters that I’d expect to produce a lot of interesting knock-offs. I tried colouring them as if I was someone that had never really seem them before, trying to colour from intuition, while deliberately adding on some wacky details and making some bits purposefully ugly. I tried to be as sloppy as possible about it, using inharmonious colours, and sometimes just straight up getting everything wrong (Thor’s beard).

I also decided to use the Comic Sans font since it’s very overused and just a big no-no in the design community, misspell the name “Avengres” and add an off-putting outer glow effect around it. I also used the registered trademark symbol ironically, I think maybe it can be an unifying element in my different designs if this ends up being the direction I go with.

For this one I experimented with misnaming the franchise, the illustration are actually Digimon, not Pokemon (a plausible mistake), I coloured them wrong similarly to the previous one, and tried out pixelation effects to emulate the unlicensed use of low quality images found on the internet. I also stretched the title, distorting it vertically, a fairly common mistake often done by amateur designers.

For this one I did some colouring work and misspelled name similar to the previous examples, but tried to go a bit crazier with the image stretching. I should go even further with it next time.