Here are my sketchbook pages while coming up with the figures I was planning on using for the Pump N Grind window illustration. It was actually pretty difficult thinking up dance moves off the top of my head.. so I actually asked to of my friends to pretend to dance while I took pictures of them for some inspo. It actually worked well as I could get a good idea of the movements and the placements of limbs!
These were only two of about 50 photos i took. very handy having
friends that don't mind dancing around the studio
Anyway. I thought the best thing to do next was to make a canvas in Illustrator that had the same measurements of the windows to save up-scaling it further down the line. I decided to make the height 29.7cm which is the same length as the longer side of an A4 piece of paper; I did think about making it 21cm but I decided the figures would look too small on the window. I didn't really have a plan of how I was going to lay each of the figures out, I knew once I had them in the document I could just swap them round til they fit together nicely.
This is the layout I came up with after a lot of shuffling about:
This does only fit across one of the panes of glass in the window, originally I thought about making two separate illustrations so they were different on each window, but me and Beth decided it wasn't necessary as this would work well duplicated put next to each other.
The next step was to create an outline in Illustrator. It needed to be relatively thick for it to come out well when we printed the vinyl, so I made it 6pt. We wanted the vinyl to be printed in white but that was something we could sort when we went to print it:
The final step before we sent it to print was to create the outline where we wanted the vinyl to be cut. This is something I didn't even think about as I've never printed vinyl before so Beth helped me out. Below is the final design ready to be sent to the printer:
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