(Final) Assignment 7: Set of 5 Greeting Cards, Presentation!

Presenting, my sweet pun greeting cards (in neon colours)!

The criticism that I received was that the typography could be improved. Ms. Lisa said that some letters looked weird. "Thanks for" looks like "thanks bor", she said. Oops! Planning, placement, and composition is important, I have to keep reminding myself.

That said, I am still quite happy that I managed to finish these greeting cards. It really does resemble me in my opinion, since it involves my two favourite things, food and puns!

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Thus concludes my last assignment, and my last post for this blog. I've learnt a lot, and it's been fun! See you <3

Assignment 7: Set of 5 Greeting Cards, Progress

Progress shots!

The messy workspace. 

Got my materials ready; pencils, papers, knife and ruler!

I started by folding the card bases using watercolour paper.

Once I had my base, I drew the illustrations on a separate piece of paper before sticking them onto the cards.

Sketching,

Inking,

..And colouring!

Using highlighters to colour in /outside/ of the drawings.

It's pretty much the same process for the rest of the cards.

The illustrations, before I pasted them onto the cards. 

Sneak preview of the cards!

Assignment 7: Set of 5 Greeting Cards, Sketches

After doing more research, I did more thumbnail sketches and finalised my colours. The rest of these pages go without saying:

Assignment 7: Set of 5 Greeting Cards, Initial Ideas and Research

Our final assignment is to make a set of 5 greeting cards, all with one unifying theme. These are the sketches that I proposed to Ms. Lisa..

..And the ones that got chosen are in red. My theme was sweets and puns, and my colour scheme would be neon colours. I wanted to digitally draw the illustrations at first but I was suggested to colour them in with my neon highlighters instead, to get those really bright colours.

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Research/inspiration:

Card illustration style:

(inked drawing, but only the background is coloured)

Neon colours:

(literally neon light colours)