This is a continuous work in Progress, as the Illustrated Emotion-Cards set will contain a little over 40 different emotions and shades of base emotions to depict. The emotions are based of a table of emotions examining the nature of base emotions and the combinations of base emotions mixed to create more complex emotions. The cards are for use in psychology, personal development, and growth/happiness oriented work for self examination, seminars and coaching contexts.
Style elements
Depicted Characters I generally leave clothesless to suggest the pure nature of focus on the emotion itself. Furthermore, I use long hair as a style element as well as to cover up sensitive parts. This should prevent viewing it as a sexualisation of figures. Further, I am drawing figures relatively androgynously or covering them enough to not be too specific. Additionally, I am implementing the emotion as word into drawings to make it clearer. Cards where the exact name is not final yet, like the new version of anger → wrath (top left and center), I am leaving without the word until it is finalized.
Each Illustration is finalized with the same set of cover textures and shading I created as a base to style each illustration of the set with for a consistent visual and theme throughout the set.
The style is very influenced by old Art Nouveau depictions with heavily filigree and playful hair implementations as well as comic and Anime-Style techniques, paired with a cleaner colorisation look and style. Colors vary and are depending on the emotion to depict. This may still change throughout the process as each type of emotion in the institute's list is organized by a color code which mas be implemented before finalisation.
