Exit Sign - Tumblr Posts

if any of you are ever wondering what engineering students are like, one time i found a fire escape exit sign for sale at a garage sale and gave it to my engineering friend and not a single person will believe her that it's a birthday gift because engineers are notorious sign thieves, among many, many other baffling things

"Proceed To Exit (TOV edition)"

Pictogram/exit sign fanart for "The Oldest View" by Kane Pixels. Made in GIMP.

I was planning a piece of fanart that incorporated an exit sign and then looked those up and realised that - from what I found - there doesn't seem to be some kind of norm for exit signs. Like the figures etc all seem to have different proportions.

Then came the idea to make my own pictogram for the piece I had planned, and then things kinda escalatated from there lol. I imagined what different exit signs for different pieces of media may look like - realised that there *is* media where exit signs even make sense - and well. Was overcome by creative frenzy and made this in less than an hour, returned to it later in the day and further refined it for another 30-40 mins. So, less than 2 hours in total.

I love this. This opens up a couple further possibilities in making art and collages especially (I could use this as part of a grunge poster for example), but also to make fanart of other pieces of media with its own pictograms.

Also, like with pixelart, it is a cool exercise to break things down to their basic shapes and characteristics while keeping it all recognizable, and working in a liminited format is always a fun challenge.

(Please do not look too closely at the perspective of those stairs btw. Instead of going and seriously considering perspective and all that, I just went 'ah, it's a concept, I'll just wing it' XD)

In case anyone is interested in the original version/concept: