In the workshop yesterday and this morning I've been working on some of my better sticker designs and I'm honestly so shocked at how easy I've found using Illustrator, I thought I'd find it much more baffling, but I think just by forcing myself to sit alone with it for a few hours and working it out I've realised how much logic there is to it.
These are the three designs I've made so far:
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The first one is UNDOUBTEDLY my least favourite. It can out so much different to how I'd intended, also I did it at the end of the session so I was rushing a little. I think I might try and make this one again but using softer more pastel colours instead as I think in a way it looks a little too human and graphic? The belly button also needs to lower as at the moment I will admit... it looks like a shocked face. I've learnt that it is pretty hard to add any sense of depth or tone into work on Ai, but this means I'll just have to get better at selecting and designing more appropriate things to make using it.
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This one was actually the first one I made in the session, and looking at it now, I really really like the design and the spacing of the sticker and how its worked out using Ai, its given it a flat quality but I really like that as its something you can't always achieve by hand. The colour scheme is also probably one of my favourite things to have come out of this project, using black and purple is something I've always thought looked a bit tacky and maybe childish? But in the context of this project, I thin it assumes this kind of witchy quality when its paired with the imagery of cats, which gives a new layer to the feminist stickers I've been making. I also think it makes it looks playful but serious in a sense as the colours are quite dark and draw the eye.
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The last one is the one I did this morning, and I'm so shocked with how quickly my illustrator skills have improved! I could never have imagined that you could make complex shapes like this on a computer but I'm now finding that pretty easy, as well as getting to grips with using the reflect tool to make everything a bit more symmetrical (again something you can always achieve by hand). I think this one shows a bit more of my personality and style through it as I'm learning how to utilise the tools to express my own tone of voice in my work, but at the same time making it look a little more polished. Also so obsessed with putting text on a circular path like this, I'll probably make some more that follow a similar template to this one, it reminds me of a guide or brownies badge.
TOMORROW:
- I'm going to come into the Mac suites again and maybe focus on making a few of my other sticker design for different causes to see which ones turn out better, as much as a like the colour scheme I've been working with it might be interesting to see how other colours translate on screen and in print. Also the black and purple ones might be a bit too dark? I'm not too sure whether I just think that because I don't use those colours much or whether they actually are too dark but I'll take the print outs home with me and think about it.
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