Aaron Howdle Design and Illustration

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Aaron Howdle info@aaronhowdle.com

Graphic Design Product & Packaging Design Concept Art & Visualisation 3D Modeling & Rendering Illustration Interiors

Caplen Estates: Wall Frieze, Interior Design, Illustration & Graphic Design This project required me to design and illustrate a 10 metre wall frieze and folders for an estate agency.

My Work On This Project ♠♠ Graphic Design and Artworking of folders and business cards ♠♠ Hand drawn, pen and ink Illustrations used to create the large wall frieze

Last One In, Modular Zombie Card Game: Graphic Design, Packaging Design & Illustration Zombie Defender

Attack up to 20 ZOMBIES. This DEFENDER can be used as 2 CIVILIANS in turn phase 3

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In 2016, Mark Taylor of City Gate Games asked me to sketch some ideas for a zombie card game. The project soon snowballed, and I found myself producing all the artwork and design for the game as well promotional materials and short animated films. I also contributed business and production strategy, since this was City Gate Games’ first product.

CHOOSE ONE EFFECT Effect 1: Choose a ZOMBIE CARD from the

centre row and add it to your zombie pile.

Lurker Lurker

22 ♠♠ Premium box, expansion packs and tokens

♠♠ Hand drawn illustrations for all cards packaging, tokens and extras ♠♠ Colouring all images using a Wacom Cintiq and Photoshop ♠♠ Creation of all promotional and social media assets ♠♠ Creating promotional videos, including animated action sequences and motion graphics created in After Effects

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♠♠ Graphic Design, Packaging Design and Art working of 124 playing cards, box, rulebook, play-mat

your opponents turn. Interrupt a zombie card played against you and redirect both cards to your opponent’s ZOMBIE pile.

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My Work On This Project

Effect 2: This effect can only be used during

NAVIGATOR

When played onto your open building you may draw a new card from the BUILDING DECK and add it to your hand.

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Concept Art For Swords: Executed In Photoshop The scimitars pictured above, were produced for David McCarty Goldsmiths.

The project involved creating sword designs for the Emir of Qatar to commemorate the football World Cup. The right hand Sword is an illustration of a “Soul Reaver”, produced for a Role Playing Game rule book.

My Work On These Projects ♠♠ Final Concept Art: Digital Painting, using Photoshop, Illustrator and a Wacom Cintiq ♠♠ Hand drawn concept sketches

David McCarty Goldsmiths: 3D Concept Visualisation Pictured here are a small selection of renderings for David McCarty Goldsmiths, which formed part of a much larger collection of images produced for the Sultan of Oman.

My Work On This Project ♠♠ Interpreting design paintings to create textures. displacement maps and enamelling effects ♠♠ Creating realistic materials for metals, enamelling and gemstones ♠♠ Building 3D models using Cinema 4D ♠♠ Lighting and Rendering ♠♠ Retouching in Photoshop and combining images into presentations

Grey Goose Bar-ware: 3D Modeling & Concept Art The images on this page show various designs produced for Grey Goose Vodka, created during my time with Snaporg.

My Work On This Project ♠♠ Creating Concept Sketches in Illustrator ♠♠ 3D Modeling/Rendering in Cinema 4D ♠♠ Finishing touches in Photoshop

Packaging Design: Graphic Design, Production Design, Concept Art A selection of Value Added Packaging, designed and rendered for Snaporg.

My Work On These Projects ♠♠ Creating Concept Sketches in Illustrator and Photoshop ♠♠ 3D Modeling/Rendering in Cinema 4D ♠♠ Graphic Design and Art working of Packaging ♠♠ Creating Cutter Guides ♠♠ Finishing touches in Photoshop

Packaging Design: Graphic Design, Production Design, Concept Art

My Work On These Projects

A selection of wine and spirits packaging, designed and rendered for Snaporg.

♠♠ 3D Modeling/Rendering in Cinema 4D

♠♠ Creating Concept Sketches in Illustrator and Photoshop

♠♠ Graphic Design and Art working of Packaging ♠♠ Finishing touches in Photoshop

The Escapist Rooms: Glass Panels, Interior Design & Illustration Large format illustrations produced for a venue in Denver Colorado.

My Work On This Project ♠♠ Hand Drawn Steam Walker image in pen and Ink ♠♠ Creating new compositions from my existing hand drawn personal work.

Reomposed in Photoshop ♠♠ Preparing artwork for application to large format glass screens

Fontana Milano 1915: Web Design and Illustration Illustrations for Couture hand bag maker, Fontana Milano 1915.

My Work On This Project ♠♠ Approximately 50 hand drawn pen and ink illustrations for use on their website and in-store ♠♠ Drawings were created in 3 or 4 layers to create a parallax effect on their website ♠♠ 16 animated, spot illustration GIFs

Pump Clips: Downlands Brewery.

Illustration, Graphic Design Downlands Brewery have a house style for their pump shields, but on occasion they commission me to create a badge for a special edition beer.

These are sometimes based on my personal illustration work (See Tripod APA, below).

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My Work On These Projects â™ â™ Digital Illustration using Clip Studio, Photoshop and Illustrator.

Digital Painting: Game Concept Art

Digital Painting: Game Concept Art

Cog Head: Mobile Game Concept Design & Artwork Concept art and design for a puzzle game for smart phones and tablets.

I worked with a developer on prototyping my idea using in Unity.

Digital Painting: Game Concept Art

My Work On This Project ♠♠ Drawing in Illustrator ♠♠ Digital painting using Photoshop ♠♠ Providing layered images for the developer

Website Design & Build I have produced a large number of websites over the years, here are a few examples.

My Work On These Projects ♠♠ Design and Illustration in Photoshop and Illustrator ♠♠ Building sites in XHTML and CSS ♠♠ Wordpress, Magento and WooCommerce ♠♠ Building online stores ♠♠ Light coding and altering code in Javascript and PHP ♠♠ Basic SEO ♠♠ Building sites and animation in Flash (not usually required these days)