This was the first public outing for both of the new comic boxes. It was really exciting seeing something i'd helped design and paint in a public space!
As part of painting the boxes, me and Zatul were heavily involved in volunteering and helping out with the Thoughtbubble team at various events. Getting to know Martha and Tom through doing this was a really cool opportunity - as both of them work professionally with arts: Martha as an organiser of events (being the main organiser of Thought Bubble) and Tom in working as both a large-scale Artist and a Writer in comics. Both of them have given me really interesting advice - and I think it shows the importance sometimes of just getting involved with stuff.
Once the alien one was finished - Tom asked if I could immediately get on with designing another one, to get it under way as soon as possible. Thought Bubble wanted a box that was loosely based on 'kids' comics - Things like The Phoenix, Jampirates...but also on popular cartoon franchises like 'Adventure Time' and 'Bee and Puppycat' - Shows that look a little bit like this:
I tried to capture that in the idea's I did - really bright, colourful, a bit surreal and weird too. I sent these to Tom and he really liked the look of them, and thought they'd work well as a box - with a few tweaks. With this in mind, I started drawing it up to work large scale and 3D.
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