Suit up...

11. 03. 2012

I recently stumbled across this design hidden away in my computers files, I had totally forgotten about it! This is my original poster design for the Summer Design Ball. The reason for 'original' was because I ended up changing it to the paint chip design because all of my designs at that point had been vector illustrations and I needed more variation in my final portfolio.

This was one of my first ever major Illustrations using Illustrator, and it's one of my favourites because I don't often get to see my boyfriend in a suit ha ha!

I'm melting...

03. 03. 2012

In my designs lately I have been experimenting with fonts.

I'm going to briefly show you how I made the above design, so that you too can start experimenting.

I stated off with the font Arial Black.

In Illustrator I added more points to the letters and curved them to look more like bubble writing.

I rotated the letters and fit them all together snuggly and then changed the colours

I created drips by adding more points and playing with the curves

I then added puddles down the bottom using the pen tool.

To make the design look 3D I added white shines to the corners using the pen tool - stroke, increase the point to 2, then changing the pen stroke style!