{"id":5766,"date":"2016-06-06T11:52:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T11:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2016-06-06T11:52:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T11:52:25","slug":"developing-the-guess-what-characters-cambridge-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=5766","title":{"rendered":"Developing the Guess What! characters  (Cambridge Conversations)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 9\u00a0| June\u00a06<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Andrea Sarto\u00a0says, &#8220;As an illustrator it is interesting (and often cringe-inducing) to look back and observe the evolution of my drawing style over the years. Usually it\u2019s a steady progression with the odd experiment thrown in but <em>Guess What!<\/em> was possibly the most dramatic shift in my style in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>My original approach to the characters (above) was very typical of the work I was producing at the time, cartoony with black outlines, flat colours and simple shading. I was given a nice, clear brief describing their main features and I was quite happy with my initial designs, though in retrospect the eyes were a bit googly. I thought, for a robot, iPal was particularly cute. The comments at this stage were to make David and Olivia\u2019s hair less old-fashioned (a bit alarming as David\u2019s hairstyle was based on my son\u2019s!), a few clothing adjustments and to change iPal\u2019s eyes to be more robotic. However the main request was to make the colouring and shading more 3D.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">I replaced the flat colour with gradients, beefed up the shading and added highlights. The figures now had more depth and their characteristics were finalised but the style still wasn\u2019t quite right. It wasn\u2019t 3D enough&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/elt\/blog\/2016\/05\/developing-guess-characters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read full article<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 9\u00a0| June\u00a06, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Andrea Sarto\u00a0says, &#8220;As an illustrator it is interesting (and often cringe-inducing) to look back and observe the evolution of my drawing style over the years. 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