I’ve been a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) since it came out in 2008 - almost 12 years ago from when I finished this project. As my trademark of set collections, illustrations and absolute nerdiness over the Marvel Superhero world - it seemed that this icon set was…. inevitable… (yes I laughed when I wrote that - grinning to myself like Thanos pre-snap)
I’ve done a couple of different versions with some of the movies just as an alternative for colour or icon (I couldn’t decide, so I thought to provide the options)
I’ve split the icons into phases they were released in (as the movies were split) just to group them easier
Sidenote: Most (if not all) of the Iron Man icons were inspired by his arc reactor he primarily used during the movies they represent.
Sidenote: I was really torn on whether to use Captain America’s WS uniform or his stealth shield that he used at the beginning. I liked his shield colours, but equally I wanted to have something more distinguishable rather than his shield, so I used his torso uniform as an alternate.
Sidenote: It’s probably less popular and probably one that required the least amount of actual illustration design - because this is a matching logo of the official Guardians of the Galaxy badge. I had considered using Starlord’s mask as an alternative for either this or v2.
Sidenote: This phase had the most icons, and it didn’t help that there was a few variations on this set - however I hope you enjoy the options!
Sidenote: I thoroughly enjoyed designing this - (spoiler) I was really wanting to show the divide, as well as the damage of Black Panther’s claws on Cap’s shield, as well as Iron Man’s shattered arc reactor.
Sidenote: I couldn’t decide on the colours. There’s a lot of reds and blues already, so I wanted to try and just have a few colour choices. Red for his cape, purple for his costume and then there’s the incorporation of the glyph colours too.
Sidenote: This took a while to design, as I wanted to ensure there is a unique symbol from Thor’s other movies. Finding Thor’s gladiator helmet as a good reference was quite the feat.
Sidenote: This effect of the dusting (or rather what I saw as flakes rather than dust) took me a while to figure out how I wanted to approach it - as I wasn’t sure how to replicate this type of effect in Illustrator. I’m used to doing this kind of effect in Photoshop instead.
Sidenote: Helmet designs often took the longest, as the references of shape and colour with their most distinctive features really had to reflect the actual costume as accurate as I could. Half of the design process was finding a variety of good reference pictures.