Brand Values and Rationale

Finals

From the beginning, my sketches and everything else has made me come to this as my final. 

Z Brush

I tried using Z brush but it kept freezing on my laptop so heres a screenshot of my work that I tried doing. Developing and eye

More information on Athens

ATHENS FACTS

- Records show the city’s origins go back to around 3,400 years ago, also making it one of the oldest cities in the world.

- Everyone can agree that Athens is an interesting city. Blessed with a rich cultural and historical past, the city is the subject of many known – and lesser-known – facts. Here is a compilation of 15 interesting facts you should know about Athens.

- Records show the city’s origins go back to around 3,400 years ago, also making it one of the oldest cities in the world.

- Athens has experienced almost every form of government.

- If it weren’t for an olive tree, Poseidon might have been the city’s patron.

- According to mythology, Athena and 

Poseidon competed for the title of the guardian of the city. They each offered a gift to gain favor of its people and the gods, but Athena’s olive tree was deemed more valuable than the salt water spring given by Poseidon, so her name was given to the city-state.

- The ancient Olympic games were never held in Athens.

- The first Olympic Games were held in 776 B.C. in Olympia, in Peloponnese, but the city-state of Athens also had its own games, called the Panathenaic Games, since 566 B.C

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Illustrations

This owl I was playing with shades to see how it will work for my finals. Still thinking of colour.

Played with line weight and colour. 

The top two images shows how I started my designs and how I transformed them into my finals

Illustrating

My illustrations all started from sketches and from there they just kept developing into more things. Here are some of my sketches before I did the digital.

These were illustrations I tried from images off the internet. I was playing with pressure and size with the paint brush. Also the pen tool I tried aswell. 

Info on the Olympics

Some research on the Olympics in Athens.

BIGGEST GAMES

A record 201 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the Olympic Games. The overall tally for events on the programme was 301 (one more than at the Sydney Games in 2000).

MOST POPULAR

Popularity in the Games also soared, as 3.9 billion people had access to the television coverage compared to 3.6 billion for Sydney. This global audience enjoyed coverage of never-before seen sports such as women's wrestling, which was included in the programme for the first time.

RECORDS TUMBLE

Swimmer Michael Phelps won six gold medals and set a single-Games record with eight total medals. Leontien Ziljaard-van Moorsel became the first female cyclist to earn four career gold medals, reaching a total of six Olympic medals, while canoeist Birgit Fischer became the first athlete in any sport to win two medals in each of five Olympic Games.

MEMORABLE CHAMPIONS

Runner Hicham El Guerrouj won both the 1500m and the 5000m, while on the women's side Kelly Holmes triumphed in both the 800m and the 1500m. In team play, Argentina won the men's football tournament without conceding a goal, and the US softball team outscored their opponents by an aggregate score of 51-1.

NOCs: 201
Athletes: 10,625 athletes (4,329 women, 6,296 men)
Events: 301
Volunteers: 45,000
Media: 21,500