Illustration and Visual Narrative | Task 2 Pokemon Card

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23/5/2024-9/6/2024 Task 2 Pokemon Card

Gao Yuanyi 0373945

Illustration and Visual Narrative

In this task, we were required to combine our technical skills in Adobe Illustrator with our understanding of visual narrative to create a unique Pokemon card featuring our own Vormator character.

Vormator Character Creation

Tools to Use: Pen tool, Curvature tool, Shape tool, Shapebuilder tool, Reflect, Rotate, Resize, Knife tool, Pathfinder, Color tools, Selection and Direct Selection tools. 

Sketch


Pokemon Card Composition

Objective: Place Vormator character into a Pokemon card composition, incorporating foreground, midground, and background elements. May also create a new shape not bound by the vormator rules or shapes.

Tools to Use: Pathfinder, Shape Builder tool, Knife tool. May also use other warping tools that will be introduced in the following weeks.

First composition

Final composition




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