Digital Skills: Final Pieces

I've successfully handed in my first project of the year - Digital Skills Acquisition! 

This TIFF image shows my final stationary design for the Instant Print gardening category. I'm really pleased with how these have turned out, I especially like how successful my artwork has turned out on the flyer, if I was to improve I would possibly edit the background colour to a different shade of green so it stands out from the colours on the art work a bit more, I'd also possibly edit the text so a slightly larger font and perhaps try it in white, as I don't think the black text looks 100% effective. 

I'm also really pleased with how my business card designs have turned out, I remained consistent by using Bebas which I also used on the flyer design. I think the white background gives the illusion of white spice and the small icons has quite a modern look to it. I also wanted to include the artwork on the business cards to so that as a set, they went together well.

Digital Skills: Developed Ideas

I feel like a lot of my digital skills have developed when putting together the artwork for the gardening stationery category. I used Adobe illustrator to play with different brushes and effects to come up with this leaf/grass effect which is seen in the picture below

After playing around changing the colour of the plastic flower I photographed in Adobe Photoshop, I started playing around with different layouts and also adding in the grass effect behind the flowers which I really liked the effect of...

I then started to add 'rain drop' effects by adding circles, triangles and rounded rectangles and amending their shapes until I got the desired effect. I also added some flower motifs in a vector style which I think contrasted nicely with the photographed flower.

FINAL ARTWORK:

This is the final artwork which I will consider for use on flyers and business card designs. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out and I would also like to experiment using different coloured backgrounds, especially with the summery/pastel colour scheme of the artwork!

We also had a group presentation this week where we had to show the group our initial and developed ideas and basically what we had come up with so far. I was really pleased with the feedback I had been given - especially since Allah the girl from IntantPrint was there to give us her opinion directly which was a great help - she told me my designs were looking on the right track and to keep going which was very encouraging, especially hearing it from someone you're working a brief for!

Digital Skills: Initial Ideas

After taking photographs I felt a lot more inspired about this project, so I finally felt like I was able to come up with some initial ideas which I started to sketch out on paper - I think it's important to begin initial ideas on paper or in a sketchbook rather than jump straight onto a computer without any idea of what you're going to do! 

With these rough scamps I can now progress onto moving onto the computer to put these together in a more realised manner!

Digital Skills: Taking Photos

For the InstantPrint live brief I had chosen Gardening as my chosen category to design some stationary for. I took this opportunity to take some photos of a fake flower in the front window, and some plants in the back garden as well as some of my dad's gardening tools I could use to start developing some art work!

The next step after taking these pictures is to start coming up with some designs and initial ideas, I'm also hopefully going to be able to use these pictures to come up with some design work, perhaps by using the pen tool to go over the shapes so I can have a good play about with them. I'm hoping this will be very beneficial in terms of the development of my digital skills!