For the past couple months or so, probably a little longer than that, I've been working on a really fun project that is part of an educational tool for kids. I wasn't able to talk about it yet because their website hadn't launched, but they launched just this past weekend and so I am excited to be able to showoff some of the work I've done! The works is illustrative work for a San Francisco based company called Little Passports. It was founded by two moms and the purpose is to help educate young children about other culture's. You can visit the site here -> Little Passports
I did the some concept work for their main characters, Sam and Sofia, who will be guides for the children as they learn about other cultures. They're about 10 years old, but of course have to look cool and appeal to that agre group so essentially should look a little more "mature" than your average 10 year old. They travel around on a "magical" scooter, which has a "magical" little GPS type device. I continue on as the illustrator for Little Passports, as Sam and Sofia need to be illustrated in different poses and costumes according to their global adventures! I love this project and really think that it is a great product and am really proud of how the illustrations have turned out. In some ways, I really feel that the illustrations help to make it an attractive learning tool and really personable as well as fun and "cool" for kids, so I am glad to play such a big role.
Introducing Sam and Sofia!
Here's Sam and Sofia on their Scooter!
Like I was saying, I get to draw Sam and Sofia in different poses and in different "costumes" that reference the cultures they are visiting, here is one I did for their trip to Japan!
This one was a lot of fun, particularly because of how fond I am for the Japanese culture, but also because their outfits were really fun to draw. I had initially sketched sam with a sheathed katana, but they decided that it may seem "violent," so it was omitted. I liked it better with the katana ;P