Dark Souls Pictograms
Introduction
For this project, I was to design pictograms for a certain storyline of my choice. I chose to go with Dark Souls, since it’s one of my favorite pieces of media. The project requirements stated that I had to create 5 groups of pictograms: themes, characters, items, locations, and organizations. Not only that, but they had to be easily identifiable.
Process
Right off the bat, I knew I wanted to take a more minimalist approach to this project. I chose to stay in the confines of a square for each pictogram, and I also wanted to limit myself to 3 specific line weights. For items, I knew that I wanted to do the rings of the Dark Souls franchise. Luckily for me, a lot of the pictograms I ended up with were very easy to identify, due to their predominance in the games. I had a lot of fun exploring different themes and shapes, and I drew out a lot of my concepts in advance before even starting on them digitally.
Final Products
Themes
Locations
Covenants
Characters
Rings
