Summer Postcards

The next postcard was to design was a one colour pictogram portraying an activity. Again reflecting back onto my summer, all i did was work in a bar. 

So trying to think of a simple image that could reflect working and also if possible working in a bar. 

The first thing that came to my head was,  

The sign for roadworks.

This is the only sign for 'work' i could think of that already exists! However this image alone is more road-works/traffic related. 

WORD STORM: 

working in a bar, 

. Beer

. Alcohol

. Glasses

. Pouring Drinks

. Regulars

. Cleaning

. Bottles

. Wine

. Service

From this activity and thinking in this way i came to the conclusion that one of the main activities i did when working in the bar was pouring drinks. 

So working in my sketchbook, drawing, then a few photocopies later, scanning then 'live-tracing' i had this, 

  

Now i have these images to move on with, this step being colour.

Now i can only use one colour, so yeah 

An array of colours of the joy! As i said i can only use one colour, but i dont like having just a white box, so i chose to have a solid colour for the pictogram and have that same colour as the background but with a low opacity. 

Anyway the final one i chose was,