Squaremania on more (mock up) products!

So the last couple days of my hiatus are over...and this is what I've been working on:

There are a bunch of things I created in Adobe Illustrator (such as tags, backpacks and pencils) and then cut, pasted, and cropped my illustrations into and onto them.  I also visited my niece and nephew last weekend and they were excited about pencil toppers (for some reason)...so I added a couple of those to my (mock up) merchandise.

Here's one more that's finished:

You can see more on my website - www.isaacmarzioli.com - I still need to work on getting a few more up and also on putting a variety of other types of merchandise up.

squaremania on products!

I figured that since it was back to school time I would work on this first:

I'm working on getting my characters licensed - I'm doing some mock ups to help potential clients and agents see how Squaremania looks on products.  I drew the pencil in Adobe Illustrator (i did a basic pencil outline  and then a series of color gradients...for the metal color at the bottom I created a small shape and flipped it so the gradient would create a pattern that went one direction and then the opposite direction) and then pasted in the characters and cropped them to the right size and look.  I also changed had to select each character individually and change it's opacity to multiply so it, in effect, erases the white boxes around them (that you would get from pasting a photoshop file into illustrator).

Those characters are isolated from this illustration that I mocked up on a backpack:

This one ends up looking a little more cartoony - but I didn't want to spend the time making the backpack looking realistic when you could get the point without spending all that extra time...