[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-3805-EN":3},{"news_id":4,"summary":5,"tile_image":6,"pk":7,"tags":8,"title":9,"body":10,"published":11,"images":12,"permalink":20,"posted":21},3805,"Lotto NZ have a brand new mural in their head office, created by the lovely \u003Ca href=\"\u002FGregStraight\">Greg Straight\u003C\u002Fa>","blog_3805_636790842822207663.jpeg","news","#mural#graphic#greg straight#lotto nz#","New Mural","\u003Cp>This eye-catching 8 meter long mural by Greg Straight was recently unveiled at the head offices of Lotto NZ, Greg tells us a bit more about how the project came about and his working progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>\"After creating the artwork for an Instant Kiwi scratch card for Our Backyard for Lotto, which was subsequently made into an online game, Toby also mentioned the offices were due a big spruce up soshortly after the completion of the Our Backyard artwork I was asked to create an 8 meter mural for the revamp!\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>I was given a list of what to include – different charities, sports people, NZ films and some classic Lotto imagery from years gone by – Get a perm!\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>It all started with pencil on paper drawing up the individual elements. The next stage was to place and resize all the individual elements into a background landscape.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>Once I was happy with the layout I sent this to Lotto for approval and once I had the green light jumped on the computer to work the mural up digitally in illustrator at 50% of the full scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>Again starting with the individual elements first, I tried to keep everything quite simple, stylised and geometric true to my style.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>When I had completed all the different elements I placed my sketch on a layer in illustrator and started dropping in the individual elements until I was happy with the general look and feel and it felt balanced. Busy but balanced!\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>My favourite part of the mural is the guy with the beard and the dog with the winning ticket and the Auckland Zoo part, I also love the Get A Perm dude.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>The Lotto balls at the bottom of the artwork are the winning balls that won 33 million.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>My biggest challenge was fitting everything in and making the artwork look busy but still make sense. So each smaller part merged into the next part.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>  \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>","2018-11-29T10:30:00",[13,14,16,18],{"filename":6},{"filename":15},"blog_3805_636790842934112577.jpeg",{"filename":17},"blog_3805_636790843064145959.jpeg",{"filename":19},"blog_3805_636790843180920330.jpg","\u002Fnews\u002F3805\u002Fnew_mural","2018-11-29T10:30:00#3805"]