A while ago Jouni from DiveSpain came to me and asked if I could create an illustrated header or character for the DiveSpain website.

DiveSpain.net is a popular web community with interesting diving related content and an active member base. The illustration was to be an integrated element in the header to give the site a bit more personality.

Jouni sent me a very good brief for doing this job, with ideas he had, and mentions of what other diving sites are doing.

Based on Jounis brief I came up with some different options:

Initial sketches for the divespain header

Jouni decided to go for the cartoony diver, as this was the more personal solution and it illustrates something called the perfect position in diving language. This cartoony diver was also easy to use around the web, as an avatar for Divespain.

As I don’t have a lot of experience with diving I had to get some more pointers from Jouni, so the position, and airpipes etc. looked correct even if simplified.

And here is the Final version:

The final character design

The avatar version of the character

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