In this week's Tiger Kick-off, we're running a story about how MU football coach likes to play teams that are considered pretty easy to beat, aka cupcake teams. The original idea for lead art was a lot of stats over a cupcake (the reporter came up with this idea). What this morphed into was the idea of illustrating a Tiger eating a cupcake. That's where I came in.
Here's the second version of what I came up with:
The manager of Tiger Kick-off and I had some concerns about the illustration being too adorable for what we were going for. As a result, I replaced the cupcake with stock art of a real cupcake, and stacked the cupcakes behind the tiger.
Personally, I'm in love with it. But I adore cupcakes and got to play with a stuffed tiger hand puppet that roared for a day, so I'm kind of biased.
The drawing is great. I'm wondering if the art might have been more effective if you had used a real tiger (which looks vicious) surrounded by cupcakes (which look delicious). That might cut down on the cute-factor.
ReplyDeleteWow, really impressive! I love illustration, but it always takes me forever, so I didn't do it nearly as often as I wanted to when I was a graphic designer.
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