Contents

The illustrated story, printed on matt



Set of stickers, printed on vinyl and kiss cut.



Sharpener, design printed on transparent sticker paper



Eraser, design printed on transparent sticker paper but ideally would be pad printed



Pencil design printed on vinyl and kiss cut




Pencil case design makes use of transparent sticker paper as well but need to be printed using pad print or screen print.

Photoshop Mock Ups

sketches and photoshop mock up for rubbers


Sketches and photoshop mock ups for sharpener



Sketches, net and mock up of pencils




Original sketches and photoshop mock ups for pencil case


applying the designs to rulers

Pages for the book

The indesign layout for my story

The type I did before doesn't seem appropriate for the type of imagery I now have. I need a much more delicate type. Looking at illustrations of Quentin Blake and Nick Sharrat they've both used hand written type. I also had a flick through a book dedicated to type for illustration, the majority of which is hand written. I don't want the type to look as though I have faked a child's handwriting because I've seen that done so many times and I don't really like it. Instead I concentrated really hard on writing, but tried writing it upside down. So it add's that inexperience of writing but also the effort put into making it right. I think the type face I've chosen balances that quite successfully.

Explore the garden up close


Use the TV as a cinema

Ride in a toy plane


Ride the scalextrics

Here are the images so far, that will be included in the *MicroMike* brand.



The man himself, Micro Mike.



Him and the family.



Riding his cat to school.




Flying to Disney land.


Exploring the underwater world.



Being a board game piece.



Jumping out his own birthday cake.




Experiencing zero gravity.



Ice skating in the freezer.



Being a subbeteo goalie.

I am hoping these images will be the basis for the comic strip/branding of stationery.

Originally my approach to character design was going to be similar to the styles of ordinary comic books, and I wasn't sure where to start. So I began modelling a character using wire and modelling clay to try and work out proportions. However, my idea's developed into a different type of character and so I didn't complete the model.