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[Art] Cool illustration ideas for sports days and athletic festivals
Especially if you’re good at drawing, with sports day season approaching, your school might have asked you to design the cover for the sports festival pamphlet, right?
Designing illustrations that many people will see is tough!
You accepted the request but have no ideas… it happens all the time.
In this article, we’ve put together some cool illustration ideas related to school sports days!
Use the ideas here as inspiration and create your own original piece!
[Art] Cool Illustration Ideas for Sports Day and Athletic Festival (1–10)
Running Girl
https://twitter.com/rokumei1129/status/1446005130034253825Speaking of sports festivals, running events like relays definitely get the crowd going! Runners often end up on the festival brochures and posters, but for those of you aiming for a unique design, I recommend a “running girl.” Seeing a girl sprinting at full speed makes you want to cheer her on—and it’s a real moe point, too! By drawing a girl holding a relay baton from the front, you can create a composition that conveys the immediacy of the relay.
You can also express individuality by deliberately leaving it uncolored and drawing it in a manga style!
Hakama Girls Cheer Squad
https://twitter.com/etopica_tw/status/781116425536540672The Hakama Girls Cheer Squad design captures the charming contrast between cute girls and a cheerleading theme.
It’s perfect for anyone who wants a distinctive design for a sports festival pamphlet or poster! If you’re good at drawing people or like manga-style illustrations, be sure to use this as a reference.
The most important point in figure drawing is the pose.
You can use a mirror to model yourself, but asking a friend to pose is fine too! Try coming up with a striking pose.
Do your best!
https://www.tiktok.com/@09suzu0728/video/7121677159793446145At many schools, sports festivals often have a slogan.
Using that slogan as the theme can make it easier to design the pamphlet.
If you draw a girl with a headband and a ponytail like in the video, you can create a sparkling, youthful vibe! Turning “Give it your all!” into a speech bubble can also enhance the design of posters and pamphlets.
The overall impression changes dramatically depending on whether you add color or leave it uncolored, so it might be worth trying both a simple uncolored version and a colored version.
Lion and Orca
https://www.instagram.com/p/CfWBnmlJVI7/When it comes to fierce and mighty animals, lions and orcas would surely make the rankings! If you’re struggling with designs for your sports festival pamphlet or poster, why not incorporate these two animals as design ideas? Since they have many contrasting aspects—land and sea, red and blue—they’re easy to build a design around.
You could design the text “Lion vs.
Orca,” split the background into red and blue, or depict the lion and orca in silhouette—there are plenty of layouts and concepts to explore.
Let’s create a pamphlet full of personality!
Sketches of athletes
Many people have probably tried copying (studies) as a common way to get started with drawing.
For students who are especially good at drawing people, I recommend doing studies of athletes.
Designing athletes for events like sports festival posters or pamphlets tends to draw attention! The key points are choosing the athlete’s pose and the composition.
It’s easy and recommended to use photos of athletes posted online as references.
It’s also a fun process to think about compositions while doing studies of your favorite athletes or athletes from various sports.
white tiger
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf8q34PJCNL/How about designing a white tiger with guaranteed impact for your sports day or athletics festival pamphlet? A white-and-black monochrome white tiger always looks cool, and even if you color the surroundings vividly, the focus will still go to the main subject—highly recommended! Even if part of it is cropped, drawing the subject as large and bold as possible makes the composition dynamic and helps convey your message.
Emphasizing the fangs and claws can also highlight its power.
Go ahead and draw a unique, cool white tiger!
American comic style
https://x.com/moo57012681/status/1918630824393760993Pop and cute! Here are some comic book-style ideas.
Beautifully designed illustrations are great, but this time let’s go for a pop and charming design.
Looking at the posted designs, you can see students and animals drawn with black lines on a white background, accented with pastel purple.
Items like chairs, buckets, brooms, and rags that evoke classroom cleaning time are key points.
If the theme is a sports day or athletic festival, then batons and headbands might fit, right? Be sure to incorporate these while adding your own twist.