LINE Contest Stickers pt2: GRAND PRIZE WINNER!

WELP, This was a Christmas surprise!Thanks for all the votes! Feels so awesome, man! Thought I'd post early thought process for Tora, the cat.

When I got the email that I was moving onto round two, I had already made some idea sketches in mind for the contest. I looked at my fiance's cats for inspiration and sketched out more ideas. Before the judges selected my cat for the contest, I also had a dog character named Wolf. So he was part of my early sketches as well.

I narrowed it down to 8 catagories, including the original sticker that got me into round 2. I cleaned them up, animated in Flash, then finished the up in a little over a week. (The turn around was not part of the contest, I just did it for reference).

Being engaged was the #1 thing to happen to me in 2014. But this contest shares a close second next to graduating! Wooo!

LINE Contest Stickers pt1

A few weeks back I participated in the LINE and Giphy.com contest. I got to practice using illustrator and flash and it was fun. Thought I'd share osome of the things I did to help prepare for the contest.

 I looked up some emotion chart/challenges on Deviant Art(there's a lot, and unfortunately I can't remember which one I used) to get some ideas started.

Based off the early sketches, I started doodling a character to go with these emotions.

After reading the rules and learning what kind of stickers they were looking for, I started redrawing the doodles to keep them consistent. I chose some of the interesting stickers they were asking for and sketched them out on my tablet.

Finally, I drew over and colored most of these sketches using Adobe Illustrator.