Mail Art

For my mail art project, I wanted to draw my bunny character in various forms. I wanted to make cards as a kind of promotion to get people excited for my final series. I wanted to do a variation of different illustration that I have done previously or put my character in different situations. It also serve as a practice for my final and being able to play with different patterns and design.

As I started drawing these cards, I started to like the work that came out that I didn't want to give them away. By the end, I made too many and decided to keep these too for myself. I was experimenting with the background and doing really fine detail work. After I finish the design, I go in with my silver sharpie and add hand detailed design work. I got the idea from Miss Kika and how all her poster, she goes in with a white gel to add fine details. I didn't have a while gel so I settled on a silver sharpie. I like the metallic effect it has when you turn it side to side.
     

          

  


On the back of each of my cards, I have a title followed by what I was inspired when I was creating the work. I remember one of my work, I was watching Code Geass and as I was creating my design, I decided to color it Orange because one of the character nickname was Orange. Also as I was watching Code Geass, it was about royalty and princess and inspired me to draw my bunny if she was a princess. It also threw around the idea of what I would draw my bunny for my final series if she was of royalty. 

http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Orange_Incident
                                           
                   

I was also watching Netflix at the same time and Aggretsuko and I was inspired to put my bunny character and imagine it as a office worker. I decided to draw it in two parts. I was imagining different scenarios from a Princess, to a fashion model to an office worker.

 

Some of the other designs I did on the card were of my original background pattern I made for this design. I wanted to do a card that had similar elements, but update it so that I can possible create another pattern later on in the computer. For this design I was inspired by the card suits and had this very Alice in Wonderland feel. I think that what also inspired me to draw my bunny as a princess as well.

Overall, this was a really fun experience being able to just free hand my work and really getting to express my creativity.