Adidas - Womens mural brief (final stages)

I'd reached the point where i could either settle for using the final pencil drawings apart of my submission - which were more than suitable, and had bit of texture to them - OR in and make clean solid vectors out of them. I still had a healthy enough amount of time to get this all done by ( turns out PST is 8 hours behind us, so i'd gain a whole load of time that i hadn't bargained on. Which is always nice!

As much as i wanted to get this done, submitting scanned in pencil drawings just feels alien to me, and in my head it seemed still very W.I.P - so it was to the vector stage, for everything!

As i'd considerably stripped down the amount of detail on the women and animals featured in the image, the amount of time needed to colour them all in would be minimal - block colours in the large part. Also rendering in Illustrator meant that i could quickly and effectively produce the 'glitchy' looking black and white plumage of the falcon, and some of the finer details on the adidas shoes and sports wear, plus i've given them all their own subtle 3-stripe branding.

Sketch-to-Vector process below 

(as making ISSU spreads is becoming a real chore and its saves further waffle!)

With the elements all vectorised this allowed me to play about the sizes without fear of losing any image quality. I was also able to make them interact with the cracked back ground via layer masks. The composition was more or less there - each woman is also placed next yo her corresponding speedy wild animal.

I was always intending to have some colour fills or patterns happening in there, to break up the white a bit so with the extra time i'd gained with the U.S time difference i played around with some simple broken-chain vector shapes - these will be used to symbolise women breaking free from any mental or physical chains/shackles that may beholding them and trying prevent them achieving her goals!