New Badge Assignment for Design+ Tips on How To Draw Them!

Hey guys it cooljammer again! I am so sorry you haven't heard anything from this blog in like ages, and I know I been slipping behind a lot on many, many posts. So today now that I am back, I would like to share about designing badges for a project in my school! Our assignment was to design badges  that match the learner profiles IB for grades 3 and 6 as the sixth grade team! Our lower school principle Mrs. Johansson wanted us to create better badges then the ones we are currently earning to encourage the kids more! She recommended for us to be using vector graphics to make it look clearer and easier to see. So one of our first tasks to complete this mission was to sketch out designs for our badges! I chose to create badges for the sixth graders to eventually be able to earn! so here are some of my drawings!

Somethings that you should consider when designing badges is that you want to to limit words if you are but sometimes words will help understand,  you want to keep it simple for younger kids and have it gradually get more complex as they age, you want it to be distinctive, unique, you want it to have interesting shapes not just one boring circle or square. Be creative to!

How to draw them!

1. When drawing these badges you want to think of something creative such as when I did risk taker my idea was to draw a thumbs up with a new sign next to it, recognizing that it is good to try something new in life
2. It helps to look up some ideas but, not directly copy the ideas(s). Such as the open minded I saw an image simalar but I changed or took some things out of the image to make it my own design!
3. Try relate it to things that happen in real life such as if planes fly by and you want to represent badges for the airport then try draw some plane designs!
4. When designing come up with a cool outline that shapes the picture together this way you get a clean nice looking badge.