Final Design (Tzu Chi Youth Characters)

Tzu Chi Youth Deco Design 5

To make this character more male like, I shapened the face, downsized the eyes, altered hair style and gave him different skin tone. So far, it appears to be working

Tzu Chi Youth Deco Design 4

I added the highlight for the hair, but decide not to do anything for the shoes to avoid complicating the whole image, since the whole character is already detail enough. Besides, the printing area is on a narrow strip, and as one of my friend suggested to me, cropping the figure like the image shown here would be just enough for printing, because this approach still allow the detail to be shown without compromising its' printing size.

However, more issue rises in this project. For some unknown reason, the girl looks like guy; guy looks looks tremendously like the girl.

I need the solution quick before the due day, which is tomorrow...

Final Design (the whole spread)

This is the final design for the masthead revision project. The visual style is in Takashi Murakami's Superflat, and the font style is Kokouza.

After seeing this on physical page, here are something that still can be improved: the folio position is too close to the body text on the right hand spread, and the visual graphical element that crosses the page still has some sharp and rough outline.

Tzu Chi Youth Deco Design 3

This is the continuation of the female character design, and i think it's almost completed... Just need some highlight and shade forthe hair and for the shoes... and that's about it.

Tzu Chi Youth Deco Design 2

This is rough female character design for Tzu Chi Youth, and just need to add in hair, eyes, shoes, shade and other extra features.

Tzu Chi Youth Deco Design 1

Here are some of the already existing Tzu Chi Youth Cartoon Characters.