LAUAN603 - Live Brief 1

 For my first live brief I have taken part in a Clip Studio Illustration competition called The 26th International Illustration Contest.

The theme of this contest is The Best Smile. We had to create an illustration revolving around this theme.

For my idea, I decided to take the theme literally. I thought to myself that we smile when we're happy. Then, furthermore, I asked myself "What makes us happy". From this, I decided to go down the scientific route of happiness and how hormones, chemicals and neurotransmitters.

From there, I decided to create my own anthropomorphic characters based on the four chemicals that are used when feelings happiness:

• Dopamine
• Oxytocin
• Endorphins
• Serotonin

From here I begun sketching rough concepts of the chemical structures and figuring out which ones will have what sort of personality:

Character Descriptions

Chemical Structures / Shapes

After this, I began sketching some concepts of the characters:

Character Concepts

Finally, I created a concept for what the background may look like roughly alongside the characters.

Rough Blocking Out

Rough Sketch

In the end, I combined everything together to create my final submission for the competition, and submitted it via Twitter.

Final Illustration

In development, I changed Endorphins' colour to green to reflect its involvement in exercise through 'Outdoorsy colours'.


Twitter submission