Week 6, Day 6: Freebie Friday Card

This week's final card image:

The Download Link

My Process:

Since I didn't do a Graphic Day this week – part of my process – I had a longer process for the card. And my final image does not look anything close to my starting image.

Working in Adobe Illustrator, I had decided to use one of my sketches as inspiration for my card design. 

Then I added color.  I tried a complementary color palette, and, trying to go out of my comfort zone, it's not a palette that I would normally pick.

It's looking a little flat.  So I added a drop shadow to add depth.  I still wasn't satisfied so I also added some texture too.

And although the colors are not that bad, I just wasn't feeling it (my theme for the week).  So I changed the colors.

Still not happy, I started all over and changed everything, including programs. So I went into photoshop and started with a textured background, and added layers of lines at different opacity, and with different effects and ended up with this:

TShirt Status

I am still working on the t-shirt.  We are finding out that it's not as simple as it seemed.  

We were doing good with S's shirt until we got to the screening part.  I expected a thicker paint (yellow), and it just soaked right into the shirt (red).  So we are letting it dry , then we will re-screen with a white base coat, and then try the yellow over it.  Hopefully that will help!  If anyone has experience with screening, let me know what kind of ink is best!

Week 5, Day 6: Freebie Friday Card

Freebie Friday, Saturday, OK, FREEBIE SUNDAY.  I've been working on the card this afternoon.  This week's card is a typography design of my favorite quote.  Enjoy!

The Image:

 

The Card:

The Download Link

The original greyscale image was created in Adobe Illustrator, and then I took it into Adobe Photoshop to add the effects and finish it up.  I can't say exactly how long it took me because I tend to work on it for a little while, put it down, and then come back and work on it again.  I was finished with it about 5 times before I was decided to say....Done, Really!

Thanks to arbent.net for the freebie background downloads!

Week 4, Day 7: It's A Wrap

This has been a crazy week!  It's been like a roller coaster ride for me.  I've had to finish up several freelance projects, start and finish a few other projects, send out proposals, sick kids, sick me, unscheduled doctors appointments, schedule doctors appointments and, of course, my creative journey.  I did manage to finish all my challenges this week although I didn't get to make my tap-tap model.  A project for another day!

Day 1 - Inspiration Sunday:  My week started off with photo inspiration from my friend Jess.  She is a nurse and goes with a group, HaitiMedicalMission.org, to Haiti every year to perform surgeries free of charge for the Haitian people. I believe she's been going for about 4-5 years, but the group has been going for about 10 years.  When looking at Jess's photo's from her trip, I was inspired by the bright and crazy images of the tap-taps.

Day 2 - It's a Little Sketchy Monday












Day 3 - Creative Tuesday, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Day 4 & 5 - Colorful Wednesday and Graphic Thursday

Day 6 - Freebie Friday

Next week: Adventures in Typography

Week 2, Day 6: A Freebie Fleur-De-Lis Card

For my card today, I decided to use the Fleur-de-lis in a fractal design.  And to celebrate Mardi Gras, I colored the  This is a new "trick" I learned from an online tutorial at 10Steps.sg.

A great way to learn new tricks is to go to the web and do a search for tutorial on the program you are using.  In this case, I got the recommendation for this tutorial from a fellow tweeter.

The Final Card:
The card is available to download.

Card Image

Card File
Click here to go to the download page

The Process:
Since the tutorial I used is copyrighted, you will have to go to 10Steps.sg if you want to learn how to make a fractal design.  This image was my starting point.  From there, I followed the steps in the tutorial.