After talking over the price and organising the time I would have to work in it I was able to start work straight away.
The first port of call was to design the creature that the client had imagined. The monster was based on a man who had become a witch-doctor-like creature due to a curse.
She also stated that she wanted skulls involved as that would be the focus of her makeup design so straight away i started mapping up a humanoid creature with a more skeletal face. I needed to make it look like he was identified as a witch doctor type so i added a crest of bones and a large bone necklace.
After showing her the design (above) which she loved, she then asked me to design the next part of the project which was turning the creature design into a film poster for the production that she was making including the title font so once again I got to work to create this:
The designs was simple enough, I simply made the creature into a silhouette form and added a large flock of birds to break up the rough cut out of the body at the bottom. I then used an appropriate font for the title and another more formal font for the people involved in the film. After showing it to the client she loved it and then ended up using it in her production with the promise that she would refer me to her other friends.
Shortly after another one of her friends contacted me asking for a commission and after giving her my payment details never got back to me, which is a shame, but I suppose its something that I have to learn to expect when dealing with freelance clients as they will always tend to be more unreliable than that of a mainstream company.
I've really loved creating designs for people and I'm hoping that once I get more time on my hands I'll be able to put more positions up for commissions to take and hopefully make more contacts for the future!
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