In this assignment we were tasked with creating our own personally branded thank you card that would be used in a professional context. Given that my artistic specialty is character design, I thought doing character-themed cards would be a great direction for the project. Thus, a Roman Centurion, saying "Thank you, friend" in Latin.
I had the most fun with these thumbnails. My goal with these characters was to make them generic/archetypal enough to be accessible to a general audience, but with enough
personality to make them novel and compelling.
1) Grandma
2) Anime girl
3) Roman Centurion
4) Approving paternal figure
5) Strange man smelling you
6) Detective
7) Snowman
8) Leprechaun
9) An owl
10) British Aristocrat
11) A recycling bin
12) Generic smiley-man
13) A slice of pizza
14) Redneck/hick
15) A donut
16) Garden gnome
17) An adoring child
18) Another owl
19) Friedrich Nietzsche (great guy)
20) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (public domain version)
21) A friendly man
22) Vladimir Putin
23) A dinosaur
24) Business professional
25) Another Friedrich Nietzsche
26) An adoring character (akin to generic smiley-man)
27) A kooky old man
28) Sleezy greaser
29) Another business professional
30) Another generic character
31) An excessively verbose nerd
32) A little green alien (that's you!)
Part of the assignment was brainstorming a variety of interesting ways to express thanks. We also had to detail the different aspects of our brand we wanted to represent (which you can see under "Ideas to Communicate") and draft a series of potential sentiments to express on the inside of the card (under "Sentiments").
Physical mock-up of the card.
