Week 7, Day 2: Sketching Monday

I'm so excited, S changed his FB photo to my photo of him (the one with his new glasses).  Even though he would probably never admit it, I think it made him feel good that he is my inspiration this week.  Like most teenagers, he thinks we don't love him, and we don't give him enough attention...never mind that he doesn't want anything to do with us, or is totally embarrassed when we do.  I don't remember ever being like that as a teenager....ha ha, it was so totally the way I was!  I guess it's just a stage.

Monday around here means sketches.  And I have some sketches that I have done of the fountain, and I am also posting some of S's artwork — he is exceptionally talented (and it's not just my biased opinion).

My Sketches:

S's Artwork:

T-shirt progress - got the white primer layer down

The screen is placed and ready for the yellow

Plushie doll he is sewing himself.
I've given him hints on how to do it,
But I've tried to get him to figure it out himself.

His art done in Photoshop

His art done in Photoshop

His art done in MS Paint 

His art done in MS Paint

His art done in MS Paint and
Paint Tools SAI, look familiar?

His art done in MS Paint & Paint Tools SAI

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!