Design Explained Part.6 "Branding myself"

Hello!!
How are you doing? Hope you are designing, and hustling hard!

I did made a new profile picture for my SNS account, and today I'd like to share the process of making it!

Recently I watched the video of a youtuber rebranding her SNS profile picture, and etc.
It was so good that I thought it would be a great idea to do it myself too. ( Also because I was using a picture of me eating Korean BBQ. So professional amirite? :))


Anyway, let's get started!

First : the theme

I started to think about what I wanted in my profile picture. Then those words showed up in my note.

Creative, Fun, professional, vivid, black, dark, Cheerful

The new profile should be something people feel fun from, but also should think I'm a professional designer at the same time.

First thing I did was to pull up the old profiles, and decided which portrait of mine was going to be used.
First, Logo.
I call this logo "taku logo." ( Very original!)

I used to use this logo that I made a year ago (before using a picture of me eating Korean BBQ,) and wanted this image to be incorporated into the new profile somehow.

Then, my portrait picture.
This was taken before I came to Australia by a talented friend of mine.

Those below are me struggling with how to put the logo, and the portrait into the one design.

After those some trial, I was stuck. There was no way I could make something better from those ideas. I knew those ideas in the first place was too weak to build up the design; therefore, I went back to question myself again.
"How do you see yourself now?"
"What are you trying to make?"

This turned out to be a great idea.

The ideas that I came up with:

I came up with the image of the running cheetah. I compare myself with the cheetah chasing after a deer, and thought it somehow had the similarity with me chasing my dream with becoming a professional graphic designer.

While I was working on this, I was watching Pewdiepie's video, and his profile picture caught my eye.

The idea of hiding the part of the face with something was very new, and fresh idea for me. I knew it had to be in my profile too.

With those ideas, I was still struggling a lot as you can see below.

After some time where I became exhausted, I came to the conclusion that the old logo was being obstacle to finish the project.

The process became very fast from there.

I drew my portrait of mine, and put a box on it. (Inspired by Pewdiepie)

For the letter, "TAK"
I tried several versions of them, and picked this one below. (Chosen one is circled. )

After adjusting the balance, and color, it turned out to be so good that I was very proud of that I got to use it from now on.

If you would like to see more of my design, there are lots more on my Instagram page :)
It would be great if you could follow me, or give me like!!

Branding myself!! My name is TAK. I'm very happy with how it turned out🙌 #branding #tak #simple #profile . . . . . . . . . . #deadline #ambition #dream #fight #sara #face #portrait #minimalism #beard #mustache #red #yolo #australia #graphic #design #art #artwork #instagood #drawing #illustration #illustrator #create #creativity #like4like #l4l

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Thank you for reading!!

DESIGN EXPLAINED Part.5 "DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?"

Hello, everyone!

This is Tak. I've been busy lately.
I recently moved into Australia, and am hustling everyday!!
Anyway, enough with my daily life. Let's move to the design talking :)


Today's design's Title: DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?

As I talked about it a little bit above, I moved in Australia, and the night sky was beautiful here that it inspired me to make this design that I'm going to introduce today. (Wanted to put a picture, but have only smartphone's camera :(  )


1. THE THEME IN THIS DESIGN

The stars in the night are so beautiful that as if I stared at them long enough, I could fall "down" into the sky.
This above is the big idea. I wanted to capture the idea of the falling down into the deeply, and getting lost into the far sky which were full of stars.

Also when I watch them, I can't help but imagining someone I miss on the other side of the earth.

Therefore, the themes in this design were decided to be "falling down into the sky," and "connection over the globe."



2. SCRIPT ON NOTEBOOK
This was the first idea.
"The girl falling down in the universe."

To find what I'm looking for, brainstorming kept going on.
Those are the ideas that came up to my mind.

THE GIRL IN THE OCEAN
I thought it would be interesting idea to give the light from the surface of the ocean reaching to the girl.
BUT "lack of stars," soooo saved it for the other design I will make in the future.

THE BALLERINA UNDER THE NIGHT SKY
This was the idea where a ballerina danced under the sky filled with the night stars.
The idea was nice, but I thought I kind of saw this thing recently. (La La... cough Land cough...)
Also there wasn't any expression of "falling down."

After those ideas, there were some I came up with, but all of them didn't have much potential.
Then, I decided to go back to the first idea, and see where it could bring me.

The next thing I saw was this below.
The core idea is the same, but clearer, and specific.
The girl was moved to the right bottom, and gave the feeling of falling in more, and by drawing the circle, the design gave the idea of "the girl is moving out of the world she used to be," and "the connection" that I talked about in the first place in this blog.

When I drew this on the notebook, I knew I was ready to go on laptop.


To find the item which is going to be the foundation for this design, I went to Google.
And I found this item, and decided to build up my design from there.

Then for the girl, I put the image of an astronaut just to have an idea of composition in the design.

put the girl, and letters which were "DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?" as it is the theme here.
Also I noticed that the design was too flat, (if too flat, it doesn't give you the feeling of falling down) so I added the depth there by duplicating each items.

Next thing is about the girl falling down.
One girl is not big enough to give an impression to the viewers, so I duplicated the girls, laid them in a row, and dropped from the top to the bottom in the center. pic.1 (I've tried other angles for how the girl fell.(picture below .2 .3)

pic.1

pic. 2

pic. 3

The sentence " DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?" was too straight forward to the audiences, so I slipped the girls between the layer of the words, and made it a little harder to read the sentence.


After those processes, I came up with the idea where I put the white frame around this design, and gave the stronger idea of the girl falling from the top to the bottom.
But then, it didn't keep the balance well for my perspective.
I will share it with these images too in case you're interested in :)

This is my Instagram  page.
If you like this post, please give a big like, and hopefully subscribe too.
I'll keep making those, and would love to share with you!

Do you see what I see? #night #fall #lost #dream Good night everyone!. . . . . . . . #universe #galaxy #star #clouds #milkyway #drop #in #nostalgia #pink #sleep #see #whereareyou #tak #design #art #graphic #illustration #illustrator #behance #dribblers #dribbble #like4like #l4l

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Thank you for reading!

This is Tak.
Bye!