Casino Piece:
Now this was one of the most fun projects I had to create for my portfolio. The reason for that being the guidelines for the project weren't very in depth so I had a lot of free range for this project. The instructions say to make a slot machine game design for a casino, with that in mind, the hardest part was just coming up with the general idea for the game. I thought long and hard about what the best course of action would be for me to take. After many ideas I finally landed with a dog themed casino game and called it, "Dog House." This was partly inspired by the iconic painting of dogs playing cards and the opportunity for puns with dogs and the title.
This project was one of my favorites to work on because I had a lot of freedom to be creative and I got to draw all the assets for the project. The first step was figuring out all the different dogs and theme I would use throughout the piece. I decided to go with a full house of dogs, making different dog breeds into different card pieces. To elaborate, I used a mastiff as the King, a pug for the Joker/ Jack, a corgi for the queen and a bull terrier as the Ace. Now most casino games don't just use face cards for all their assets so I decided to add some number themed assets as well. To symbolize the number one, I used a solitary fire hydrant; number two was two dog bones crossed together like on a pirate flag and number three is yet to be decided. Once I figured out why and what all my assets would be, I had to gather references so I could sketch all these animals and objects. After gathering at least two references, I made sketches in Sketchbook Pro and did some color concepts in there as well. All of my assets have the same basic principle in all of them, thick black outlines of a goofy but cute dog and colors that match their own while being uniquely vibrant.
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