Sketch Process

I know that this blog is called my process journal (and it started out as such), but I really don't show any bit of my process anymore. I'm very happy with my two recent pieces so I decided to share my sketches so you can see how I start out.

As you can see my sketches are pretty true to how the final looks. The finals aren't always this close to exact, but I try to make my sketches very straight forward so there are no surprise for the client or myself.

Somethings I figure out as I go; for example how the icons in the mail cart look, which icon looks best in the robots hand and where the logos will go on the boxes, the little motion or emotion marks and lastly the colors. Sometimes I have a good idea as to a general color scheme, but not necessarily what will be which color. For instance, I knew that for the Exchange 2010 piece that I wanted to use those colors because they are based off of the colors Microsoft uses for that software, but I played around with where which colors should go as I drew in illustrator.