Howdy Y'all! A good while ago, I was assigned to design a Valentine's day card. Mr. Growl wanted us to make generic messages in the card, so we could donate them to the nursing homes in the area. This being our prompt, it was time to get started.
As always, I began with a mood board.
I wanted to go very floral and fluid, and
I wanted to avoid cool colors. Cool
colors are my comfort zone, so I wanted
to step out of that.
Then I started sketching.
I definitely was set on the first sketch I did, but I took this time to learn how to draw a reflective balloon.
After this, I entered Illustrator. That was my first mistake. This design was challenging to draw. I should have done it in Photoshop or Fresco then finished it up in Illustrator. After mostly tracing my sketch, it was time for color. This again, was a mistake. I couldn’t pick warm colors, and everything looked dusty. It also encouraged me to put a light box around the text, which ruined the fluidity. Then I tried a circle. Then a
bunch of circles. I decided to ignore it for
most of that day.
Eventually I changed the background color, and the entire thing ended up cool, again. This project was very nice because I got to do something nice for the community, however I still need to learn more about using warm colors. 😅
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