{"id":827,"date":"2015-08-05T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:14:24","slug":"duck-n-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/duck-n-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck ‘n’ Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since there’s a Splatoon tournament coming up I gathered together a few friends and formed a Squid Squad. Needing a name for the Squad I tried to think of something with a ducky theme but couldn’t come up with anything on my own. So I turned to John who suggested “Duck and Cover” – I think it works quite well considering the aim of the game is to cover turf!<\/p>\n

Based on the name, I made a logo for the team. The art is entirely vector art, traced over an initial pencil sketch.<\/p>\n

I think I could have done a better job with the art if I thought about it as overlapping shapes rather than as lines that needed to be filled. I haven’t gotten into the correct headspace for vector art yet!<\/p>\n

PS if you think you’ve seen this art before you’re not quite right. It’s the same lineart, but for the first draft it was vector lines only and paint-bucket fills of colour, as opposed to being filled vector shapes. This version is much cleaner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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