What's your inspiration? My inspiration was the season in general. I was going to do a Halloween design, but I figured leaves might look better in a pattern. I was just salty because we basically skipped fall by making the winter cards so I wanted to relive October before it ends. What's your plan?I still have to arrange my elements into my showstopper pattern and create the support patterns. I'm not exactly sure what type of pattern I'll make. What have you done so far?So far, I've sketched my design components and digitized them. I haven't made as much progress as I would like since I had computer difficulties when trying to digitize each part.
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What element is traditional medium and how did you use this element? My traditional element was pencil and paper. I used it as a basis for the picture, (I traced the drawing in Photoshop so that I could add certain elements to it that I couldn't traditionally). Explain your process and how you came up with the idea.I wanted to make a card that wasn't too christmas focused because lots of people don't celebrate it. So I decided that having an animal be the focus would be the most connectable with people (who doesn't like cats?). Of course, having just a cat wouldn't be that festive so I added the ornament. What would made it difficult?I wasn't sure how to make realistic looking fur (which I still don't think I accomplished) so I took lots of different colors and blurred them together. It was irritating and I had to redo it multiple times because I would always mess up the cat's anatomy with the blur tool. What did you find successful about your piece?I think the design is the most successful part. I liked the traditional sketch of it a lot and I think my lack of blur tool usage kind of messed the final piece up. I did like how the branches of the tree came out, though.
Why did you pick the product you did?I thought that making a book cover would give me more artistic liberty compared to labels for bottles. I'm not interested in making logos, so I didn't want to make something that was more for marketing than art. How did you design your piece? Tell me your process.I originally came up with the idea of having a person look like they're "unwinding." I started by dividing the cover into sections. From there, I designed the cover, then the flaps, then the spine, and finally the back cover. I had to work a lot with different layers, as I didn't want to redraw every single part. That's part of the reason why I did the back cover last, (that way, I could copy the art on the cover and adjust it to look the way I wanted it to). What is most successful about your design?I think the front cover's design is the most successful part. Front covers are really important when it comes to books, so you need to put the most interesting thing on them. That's what I tried to do by having the actual person on the front. By using parts of the design on the back cover too, it makes the whole thing feel cohesive. If you could change anything about the piece, what would you do and why?I think I would have added a little more to the inside flaps of the book. I really liked how the covers came out, but I wasn't as happy with the flaps. I would try to make them look a little more realistic. I would also have added a bar code to the back cover. I forgot that books have them, so I didn't include it.
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