Coin design and packaging illustration to celebrate the Chinese Lunar Year of the Dragon in 2024. It is part of the Royal Mint's Lunar Year coin series.
Competition brief: to create a design which was sympathetic to Chinese culture but also contained a British element - in this case a hint of the Lake District (Chinese dragons often frequent watery places).
Above: original pencil design which won the competition for this particular project.
Below is final revised design shown in its gold proof version.
Below is one of the boxes featuring my linocut print of the dragon.
This is a boxed version of the gold proof coin.
Packaging for the base metal version.
Pencil drawing for the packaging illustration for final approval before creating the linocut print.
Linocut print of the dragon based on the above.
Part of the final artwork cleaned up in Illustrator.
