Right on the path

Printing, Sketches

I was asked to come up with a drama filled inspiring drawing, fit to be screen printed, the concept is the pawn that promotes, who is on it’s way to there; who looks like just a pawn but his royal spirit is reflected in his shadow.
Here is a sketch for it, I am trying to explore shadows and highlights in one color, no shading, or gray scaling

While waiting for something, I had a little time to explore the perks of having a tablet, with the sketchbook app and a little stylus, nothing fancy about it. Different mediums take time to dominate, so it feels like I’m starting all over again, playing with some shadows over the same concept sketch, this is the result:

Not quite fit for screen printing, but really good practice
I see these amazing finger paintings on you tube, and I kind of feel like the little pawn on his way up hill, determined to conquer the road in front of him.

Have you had any experience drawing with the new technology?
Any practice doodles you recommend?
Lets hear them in the comments!

Photo-books are totally worth the work it takes to design them.

Graphic Design, Photography, Printing

A great way to have the pictures in a printed way, photo books. If you have a digital camera and have printed any of your pictures online, you are bound to find a company that can do them, It is a bit tedious to upload the pictures and then arrange everything in a way that tells the story, but it is totally worth it. If you print one, you might not see the value immediately, for the pictures are fresh, but wait a few months and you will enjoy them again, wait a few years and the memories are invaluable. I’ve done a few of these in my time; and love to look through them every now and then, not only have my family and friends changed, but also my photography and design skills have improved through the years.

Here is the latest, printed through Shutterfly, they are my BFFs right now,

I know there are some companies that will use your InDesgin Files, but I am still to find one that makes my budget happy with a good print; i’m on the look out though, i’ll probably mention it here when I find it.

Do you know of any place that will do them? Give me a hand and comment, please 🙂

Girls on the Run Event Program

Graphic Design

First of all if you don’t know the “Girls on the run program” please visit their page : http://www.girlsontherun.org/ and read about what they do, it is a great program for girls and more than likely they have a branch or how they call it “council” in your city.

The council in my city was selected to be the beneficiary of a fund raiser ball that happens every year the very elegant “black and white ball” and I was charged with designing the event program.

We had a week to design and a week to print it, and the content, items to be auction, was changing every second, which added to the challenge. They said the accents at the ball would be red, so I decided to incorporate that black-white-red color scheme into the program.

For the first mock-ups I showed them three different concepts; two of them looked more like invitations for a wedding or a very black tie, formal event, the third one had a bit of funk that goes in line with their website. They loved the third one, a few back and forth e-mails with the ever changing content and we were finally done.

This was the end result: