Hey Diddle Diddle

Hey Diddle Diddle

Hey diddle diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon,

The little dog laughed to see such fun,

And the dish ran away with the spoon

So I decided to start this design project to really explore my creativity and adapt a simple concept of a nursery rhyme into visual media. I was stuck in a rut for inspiration and I decided to take the simple concept of a children's song and make it into something fun and visual that can be applied onto printed products.

Initial Ideas

The Cat and the Fiddle

The Cat and the Fiddle design was the second one created in the process. I think it was a really fun and easier design process as I draw many iterations of cats in various shapes and sizes.

The hardest part was how a cat plays a fiddle, often referencing the children's book illustrations of the nursery rhyme in how they tackle this design. I particularly liked designs that keep the cat's proportions but pose them in a less natural way to play the fiddle, while keeping my signature of very shaped cats.

Cat and the Fiddle Icons

Cat and the fiddle Icons/Final designs, these will be applied to a wider range of products and can be adapted into patterns or individual images

The Mock ups

These are the mock ups of the products I'd like to apply the patterns to; notebooks, stickers, tape and wallpapers.
Although it is worth noting, these aren't my final ideas for potential product designs and more of concept ideas on what I would apply these designs to. Especially for the stickers as I tend to prefer kiss-cut stickers that are shaped to the image instead of the round ones (They would make nice pin badges though).

The COW JUMPED over the MOON

The Cow and the moon, while being the second part of the famous nursery rhyme, was the first set of designs I created for this project, in fact it was the inspiration for the whole project.

This was by far the simplest part of the project design wise. I knew exactly what I wanted the cow to look like style wise as well as the colour scheme.

Although, since it was the first designed and created in procreate I had changed and developed a bit more through the processes of the other designs. The cow and moon therefore ended up being the simplest out of the designs, especially compared to the Little Dog and the Dish and the Spoon.

Cow and the Moon Icons

These are the images that create the pattern for the cow and the moon. I had a lot of fun creating the cow shapes and star patterns. Trying to fit the cows around the moons and exaggerating the shapes was really fun to explore as I don't usually draw cows.

The LITTLE DOG LAUGHED to see SUCH FUN

The Little dog design was the hardest for me to come up with. In theory I thought it would be the easiest since all I would have to do was draw a dog laughing, but that felt very dull and uninspired. I came up with a few sketches of dogs laughing but none seemed to stick, I started looking up dogs looking happy and found they looked the most happy when rolling around on the floor, especially on grass. That led me to come up with the idea to create the theme around dogs rolling around in a field of flowers and then after looking at various dog breeds, I choose greyhounds as they have such interesting shapes that make up the body.

Little Dog Elements

These are the elements that make up 'The little dog laughed to see such fun'
This was the most difficult concept to come up with as I didn't know how best to portray a dog laughing. I landed on the concept of dogs rolling around in flowers.

And the DISH RAN AWAY with the SPOON

I must say, I had a lot of fun personifying the dish and the spoon. I felt like I was designing characters for the next 2D animated movie. Needless to say this was the most fun I've had with the designs in this project.

I decided to keep a kitchen motif within this set of designs as the more I designed the Dish and the Spoon the more I wanted to have them on my own dishware and kitchen ware.

The Dish and the Spoon Elements

Approaching the Dish and the Spoon was slightly different to the other designs. I went at it in a style of making tiles that you would find in a kitchen which set the tone for the rest of the set for this particular design.