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Made a valentine's greeting card for uni!

I know, I know, it's too early to post anything Valentine's day related but I just want to talk about it now. It's been ages since I've been active online so to break my pattern of inactivity. I'll talk about some assignments since admittedly, the majority of the art work I've been making has all been for Uni. 

We have a course on History of Visual Design and we reached the part on art on print and greeting cards were briefly mentioned during one of the discussions. Our Instructor gave us the assignment to make our greeting card for any upcoming Holiday and I chose valentines! 

On the majority of my artworks I start doing thumbnails of the illustrations I have planned on my sketchbook. It's better for me since It’s quick and I can do it in any free time I can have. I don't own an ipad and I use a pen tablet and laptop to do my digital art so planning with a sketchbook is more convenient when I’m out and about.  Also it’s a great excuse to fill up my sketchbook. 

When I searched up references on Valentine’s day cards on pinterest, the majority of them featured romantic puns. I thought It was hilarious and followed it.  The image above are all puns a stumbled on that I wanted to draw about or I find personally funny. I settled on a match pun because I wanted to draw a matchbox. I thought that a matchbox was a good idea to add more detail for the card since matchboxes have designs on them.

Here are the thumbnail sketches when i decided on the matchbox based pun: 

I wanted a frilly border of the card and the pun would be on the matchbox with a person in the center. So with my design ready I was ready to open my laptop and start to draw this digitally.

Unfortunately I hadn't even started sketching yet on the laptop when I stumbled upon my first issue. The entire time I was sketching out ideas on my sketchbook the design I planned for was for a vertical card. So when I was adjusting the canvas to make a new canvas on my art program I decided to reread the instructions to see what the image size should be and it turns out the size is 3 x 7 inches or a 3.5:2.5 ratio which is a horizontal format. So I scrapped my thumbnail sketches but kept the same motif and elements and worked with what I have to do. 

I was inspired to make a retro-looking greeting card since all the Valentine cards I've seen were all old ones and I wanted to keep it that way. To make it look old-ish I added a grainy paper texture on the base then started drawing the person I wanted to put on the matchbox right away. Since that was the more complex element for the card. Since the Card would be a matchbox pun I thought it’ll be fun to make the person to be a girl as a flame or have fire as her hair. 

I ended up scrapping it unfortunately since I thought the girl would not blend with the background very well and I wanted to stick with something simple. To keep things simple I want to limit the Card into an only red and cream color palette. I decided to skip drawing first since I was discouraged on the scrapped attempt and I have sorted out the new layout for a horizontal card. 

I doodled something quick on the corner and figured that’ll be the layout. I started to work on the typography since it'll be the major element for the card. I scrolled through the fonts available in FireAlpaca (art program that I use) and settled for the font ‘ Algerian ‘ since it matches the motif I want to go for. 

I rearranged the placement that I wanted on the doodle until I was satisfied. After I was settled with the font turned to finally drawing the matchbox. I decided that the matchbox will be front front-facing since I wanted it to be quick and simple. But when I was close to finishing drawing the matchbox I thought it was too plain and simple. Not only that, the “will you be my valentine?” felt like clutter.

I unfortunately don't have past screenshots of what I did so here’s a doodle of what it used to be. To fix it, I decided to put the matchbox on a slight angle and Deleted the  “will you be my valentine?” at the bottom instead and put it into the matchbox as a nice detail. The entire phrase couldn’t fit of course for it to be easily readable so I added a floating banner transparent png on the matchbox and put the phrase there.

 Things were working out and I started feeling confident so I drew the girl at the center of the matchbox. This time I just want it to be a simple linework of a portrait of a blushing girl and call it enough. At this point I was doing finishing touches such as adding the matches to the matchbox and rearranging the words another time, this time on the “ Let’s strike a match!” because it felt awkward where it was sitting. 

I wanted to make the font size bigger for the “Let's strike a match phrase” but it was too big. To solve it I just got rid of the “up” in “let’s strike up” to leave up space and flipped the matchbox facing the other direction for more additional space. 

FINALLY I was satisfied with it! I made the font bigger and that’s it! I was satisfied enough to send it to my instructor. Wish me luck on the grading!

If you have any constructive criticism please please I’ll be happy to hear it! 

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