I was tasked with coming up with two fliers for two events at the work place. They were to be quick and fun. I used Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop CS2. All names will be changed or blurred out.

Take 1

The first is made of two images from photos.com. I deleted out the background of the knight in Photoshop. I placed both images in Illustrator and kept them so that they were linked. That way when I would change the image in Photoshop, it would automatically update in Illustrator. Very handy tool. I made a shadow with a gradient in Photoshop since Illustrator just wasn’t doing what I wanted.

The knight’s shape seemed to cry out for words to wrap around the horse’s body. Doesn’t that space just scream “text”? So I tried that. I also put the word “Chess” behind to create some depth. It’s at about the same angle as the horse. I also wanted to break the frame but not amputate.

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Enhance your photos by using the High Pass Filter by Veerle. I hadn’t ever paid attention to what happens when I resize an image till I read Cameron Moll’s “Please Sweat the Small Stuff.” There’s a comparison in the comments of Moll’s, including the High Pass Filter.

So, I signed up for my first postcard swap hosted by My Little Mochi. Sounded fun and simple enough.

I got 10 names. I then made a postcard for each person based on something on her site that inspired me. At first, I printed them out on presentation paper and was going to mail them like cards in an envelope. Then, last minute, I found some special postcard paper with the perforated edges and everything! Oh, and did you know that domestic US postcard stamps are less than Canada postcard stamps which are less than all other country stamps? Wild, eh? But they’re mailed!

Besides giving me more reason to play with Illustrator, it introduced me to wonderful artists I might never have seen! (I’ll post my images in a bit. Wanna give them some time to travel the globe.)

So far I have gotten three postcards and they are spiffy!

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Excellent writeup on a pretty logo by Veerle. I’m also enjoying the comment section. Think I’m learning more there than some of the books I have.

I miss doing Illustration Friday but time was so crunched at school.

Project

Make a rebus.

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Can you guess what it says?

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