Third week of June

Hello! Welcome to another weekly summary of my work. This week is more graphic design and a little less illustration, but they are all my hard work so I hope you enjoy seeing what I've been up to.

Logo re-design

I had been asked by a small business that makes awesome and quirky kids apparel to help with her logo re-design for her upcoming rebranding event. In the end we came up with multiple images and formats for her to use all over her social media and final products for her brand. Here are a few examples of the finished design.

This is the little boy sheep with her business name. I love the missing tooth!

Here you can see the little girl with the little boy sheep. Aren't they adorable?!

I drew each character in pencil, then scanned them into Illustrator and Photoshop to finish them off. The business name is entirely hand-lettered, scanned and polished in Illustrator as well. You can see some of her products here.


DesignCuts Tutorials

Last week I told you that I had been working on some of the free tutorials that you can find on DesignCuts.com and that I would show you the results this week. Well, here they are. I can't take any credit for the final design or layout of these two pieces as I was following the tutorials, but there are some changes like the fonts and some of the word choices are mine.

A beach festival poster. This was a lot of fun because
you had to adjust the white frame to fit within the paint strokes. This was
done in Photoshop.

Oh this was so much fun. There were so many elements that had to be added,
adjusted, layered on, masks were used, etc. A true stretching of my abilities in Illustrator :)

Teacher Gifts

Like for many children, this is the last week of school for my girls and I thought it might be nice to do up one of the lovely monogramed wreaths I've been doing for each teacher. That's when I doubled my workload because each girl has two teachers for which I am both grateful for (who doesn't think classrooms need more teachers?) and non-plussed about because it meant two more wreaths than I had intended. But I accepted the challenge non-the-less :)

I did run into a few problems like a head cold the likes of which I haven't seen in quite some time that completely took me out of commission for a few days, and my lovely 0.25 mm micron pen tip broke halfway through the project. When I had recovered from my cold I thought I'd see how bad the broken tip would work but it was just awful. I really didn't like the result so I went out and bought myself a new one (yay art supply shopping!!).

These are the finished wreaths. I am going to frame them in an inexpensive frame as well.

Someone mentioned that it would be a good idea to include a business card with these so now I have an excuse to do up my own business cards as well! I also want to write up a little blurb about what these are and what makes them special, as well as the thank you card for all the work they've done over the year. I know my family really appreciates the effort they put in :)

That about covers this week. Next week I'd like to show off some of what I did in November when I took MATS A as that course really changed everything I do and I'd love to talk about it to someone, so why not you?

Until next time :)

Mandy

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