Phone Contact Illustrations

After going into my contacts to select one of my best friends for what felt like the 500th time that week, I realized that I could do something simpler. I created shortcuts on my phone's home screen to contact my most used contacts more easily and I created these illustrations to tell them apart at a glance. The object was to make each icon distinct but also instantly recognizable. I used techniques I learned from caricature art as well as my experience with vector illustration to create what you see below.