We Are Boutique - Mural Design Brief

With COP gone, gone gone, and a blessed respite from 'Out Of Order' promo producing duties (until the flyers turn up) I'm finally, able to get back on the road with the Extended Practice module; picking up with mural design brief from We Are Boutique in Leeds.

I'd been making little compositional sketches for a few days, but it was very on & off as I kept getting pulled away to sort out work for the comic fair and out of order.

The good thing about this brief is how clear in their minds they are about what they're after; white and sketchy, with wood in it. For me this a plus point, as gives me no room to muck about endlessly with loads of colour variants and detailed vectors. If the design is chosen,I need to be able to replicate the design onto a wall, via a paint brush/paint pen, including any type I include; so the simpler the better. The other slightly scary factor is that i've never painted anything bigger than A3, so would need to seek some advice on how best to transfer the design no onto the wall and ready for painting.

I can cross that bridge if i come to it, but i figured if i ever wanted to gain some solo mural painting experience i need to just go for it, rather than worry about the fact that I've never done one before!

My design journey and process is documented below...

Other less enjoyable work commitments getting in the way of this one led to be a quite a last minute submission job, but an all night session was NOT required (just most of the night). It took a bit to get my head around working on a black surface as i'm someone who works pretty much exclusively with big heavy black outline work, so it wasn't a simple case of scanning and 'inverting' in Photoshop. I'm happy with the results. Feels weird to be able to walk away from it at the (for me) 'sketch' stages, without taking the design into Illustrator and vectoring the bejesus out of it.

Now an anxious wait to hear if i actually have to go ahead and try and paint the damn thing!