Responsive - Live Brief - Cassette Tape Design - Character based Design

For this brief I was approached from outside of university by a music producing duo under the name Meddling Kidz, they had a very clear idea of what they wanted as a design for a J-card insert that would go inside a cassette tape case that they wish to put out as a limited edition mix tape of their original music.
The theme they suggested to me and the reference imagery I was given were certain characters from the 70's cartoon series 'Scooby Doo Where Are You?'. As the title track for the mixtape was to be named 'Wax' the pair wanted to include a character of similar appearance to the classic 'wax phantom' character.

With copyright in mind I did not want to imitate the character line for line but just have hints at him and the artist's work on the television series.





The pair also wanted the a mystery machine-esque vehicle that would have depictions of the two musicians/producers in my own artistic interpretation of some reference imagery that they provided.(below)

I then took this reference imagery and produced some character designs for two. -see in next post.