Luckily, two of my friends work for them in London and got in touch with a doodler there to see if there were any jobs available. The google doodler asked to see my portfolio! Amazing or what? To support this I want to include a page of a mock up of my own google illustration using the google homepage as a template. This will then give them an idea of what I am capable of and the style to expect.
Contextual References of previous Doodles
Interesting upcoming events/anniversaries I could explore :
I must say a lot of them did bore me and I wasn't sure how I would illustrate it. These subjects are not the usual thing I go for when creating work.
- valentines day
- einsteins theory of relativity 100 year anniversary march
- april william shakespeare died
- july england win the world cup
- august the death of henry moore
- edward 8th becomes king of the uk january
- february bank of england is nationalised
- wedding of prince william and kate april
- charles darwin bday feb 2nd
- elizabeth taylor bday 27th feb
- 13th september 100th birthday of roald dahl
- charles dickens bday feb 07th
- april 23rd shakespeares bday
- 21st april queen elizabeth 2nd bday
- april 16 charlie chaplin bday
- april 07th william wordsworth bday poet
- may 24th queen victorias bday
Stalking Doodlers on Linkedin
I opted for Charlie Chaplin first as I think this is the one that would look the most playful, and he is iconic.
Charlie Chaplins birthday piece
I was trying to think of how I can manipulate this image into text… so I figured that him stood upright could be the L and then I would perhaps need something else as an O..
I cut out his head and decided to use that as the first O
Typography experiment - layout
Obviously I won't use these fonts but this is me thinking about the composition and the colour of the font
For the font I looked at when was Charlie Chaplin most iconic, and found it was around the 1920s. Font at this time was Art Deco. So I looked at some of those for inspiration
and it would look a little something like this :
I then went over the text with the pen tool to make it less pixelated and more refined, and played around with the composition of the head and how spread out the text should be
I am rather pleased with the end result for my first attempt. I think not using colour was the right choice. I am not sure whether this is too 'simple' compared to the other doodles I have seen. Maybe it does not reflect Chaplins personality enough, but I like it. I'm glad I repeated the head for the O i think this was a nice touch.
Queen Elizabeth's Birthday
Another character I am interested in exploring. Outside of this brief I would illustrate the Queen doing something out of the ordinary like picking her nose, but for Google I kept it tame. She has a party hat on I think that's playful enough!
Final Image
Mocked up
I would like to have had more time working on the text for this piece I left it till last and I don't think it works very well at all. I was trying to compliment the image by taking the confetti and using that drawing style and shape to make text out of. However it looks too youthful and playful against the Queen and not as 'royal.' It was rushed I admit, and I can only put this down to poor time management.
Also managing the project on a whole focusing more on the imagery rather than thumbnailing how I can incorporate text from the BEGINNING. Planning out the image and text together as a composition rather than jumping straight into drawing the character.
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