Designing the Concept and almost backing-off of the challenge. Almost!

After figuring out the code, it was time for me to summon the spirit of Picasso & Michaelangelo to help me with my Art. Since I’m not good at Necromancy, I decided to go old school with a pencil and lots of blank paper.

First few days, I spent absorbing ideas from Pinterest, Behance, Dribbble and also Google, but failed to create anything intriguing enough to excite my inner artist. So I gave myself more time to replenish my artistic juices.

After 10 days, I ended up with cool design ideas like a spiritual being (like Dr. Manhattan, if you never heard this name before, Please, go get a life Bro. or Sis. or whatever) in space in meditative state with clock on his forehead, a Planet with face revolving around Sun showing the meridiem and time, futuristic dystopian world where Robots worshiping another Robot that displays time on the monitor it had for a Head (Cool Right), a Cool Cat wearing sunglasses like Riddick showing time, and so much more. It sounds a little over the top, but I really wanted to demonstrate that, the time is beyond us, something we can not comprehend.

After 15 days, having plenty of ideas, scattering in my skull, I failed to come up with something that gives me the Itch I was hoping for (not literally an itch you dummies, don’t get stuck with the words, focus on the context). And, if I don’t get that “Itch”, I can’t work (this is an artist thing).

Semi-Minimal Clock Concept by Akash Divya

Minimalistic Digital Clock Concept by Akash Divya

Since I had no concept ready and was desperate to do something, I decided to jump on the Illustrator CC, in hope that if I start creating something, some idea might hit me (still think about the context, readers). So, I ended up creating a design of an analog clock, kind of in a room and sunlight/moonlight from a window (something that provides info about current meridiem). I also created a version for Dark Theme. But still, it didn’t have the God-Damn-Itch I was looking for and hence decided to drop out of the competition.