Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Minor Project Begins....



I love these roses, they took for ever to draw, I used a black fine liner and used dots to add tone. Thinking they will look good on a nice gift wrap.




Experimenting with lettering styles.










All drawing sheets start off somewhere.










I really enjoy using dots to create tone.




A complete drawing sheet.






















I think these tea pots will work really well on a card or gift wrap.











This is how my first design started out life. I used Adobe Photoshop to clean up the images and put them into a pattern.



Although I really like the colours and I think the pattern is really good I am going to have to rearrange a few of the glasses as they touch where I don't want them too. I think I will try my hand at  a slight half drop repeat.


I altered the design by starting out with the small glasses and not taking the design right to the edge.



Complete design.







Experimenting with different colour ways.





I have introduced buttons alongside the wine glass in this wrapping paper design.







This is the design in blue, I think it works well in this colour, but I think other colours may make the wine glass 'pop' a little more.



I love the design in this colour, I think the buttons are complemented well by the colour adn the wineglass stands out just the right amount.



Although I love this orange and I think it works well with the buttons, the wineglasses look lost.






I made the design larger to see if it would work better. I don't think it does.



Although I think this design works better smaller, I love this off yellow colour!


Here I have experimented with my flower and wine glass drawing, I think it works really well with the teal.


This is the final outcome...in teal.


This was the design before I added the 'little flower', I think the 'little flower' adds more defination and interest to the wrapping paper design.



I have taken out the smallest of the flower to see how the design would look without. Although I like the design I don't think it is 'final design quaility'.



Here I have combined the 'heart hands' with the Roses. I changed the opactity of the flower so they were not just white and floating around.


When I changed the background colour, the Roses did not change. I think this accident worked to my advantage as I think it really brings in the vintage feel I am trying to achieve with my designs.


Im starting to consider that the hands are a little too faint for this design....








I have removed the 'heart hands' and introduced more Roses, I think this works really well and visually it is really good and the colours really complement eachother.
















Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Imagination becomes me...

Well i'm sat here, its been a long day at university...now im chilling out watching Being Erica Season 1! I wish I could tell you that I am sat here with an ice cold beer, a nice bowl of sweets and maybe a beautiful hunk. But sadly, I cant say this, the big bowl of sweets might be true but the ice cold beer is replaced with bags under my eyes from pure tiredness, and the beautiful hunk? Well lets just say thats a metaphor for two sketch books and a new digital camera! What a life I lead... I wish it would get more interesting and soon!!! Or else Im going to have to start climbing trees and hanging upside down in them just to feel a rush.

Enjoy these images from my sketchbook and from my final design collection.