So instead of going the easy route and just popping into the grocery store and buying some valentines for Amara's preschool peers, I decided to design some for her. I wanted to make the process fun for both of us and I sat her down and asked her what kind of valentines she would like to give, explaining Valentine's Day and so on. If you have spent any time around our house lately you'd know Amara is a BIG fan of the Tinkerbell movie which came out on DVD late last year so fairies were an easy choice. Amara and I started drawing up sketches as shown below.
Keep in mind that I was dealing with the attention span of a three year old so I had to draw as fast as I could. She liked the ones in the upper right but was a little disappointed that they didn't look exactly like Tinkerbell or Silvermist but I was able to move along.
After some further deliberation and Amara changing her mind 10 more times before going back to to the fairies concept, we came up with these three fairies.
Now, not everybody likes fairies (a concept very foreign to someone who watches Tinkerbell at least once a day) so I added dinosaurs and she liked the three above. We turned to the computer and started to paint these in Photoshop
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Painting them was a blast, Amara sat on my knee and chose colors while I painted and talked about color choices and so on. As the images got more fleshed out before her eyes, she would giggle with enthusiasm.
I had to do these quickly as she wanted paint as well. I would finish one and she would say "my turn" and grab the stylus and have a go. Below is an example of her handiwork.
I felt the cards needed something on the back so I whipped this heart up. You would like this could be blasted out, but Amara sabotaged the process TWICE. Finally we got this nice little heart below.
We were ready to print them out. Here's an example of a pre-cut sheet. The actual cards are business card size 3.5x2".
Here they are all printed out.
That was a lot of fun, though I really didn't have the time to do it. Amara and I both enjoyed it and honestly I have worked for worse clients. Make your own and just know it's from Amara. Happy Valentine's Day!
So I've been spending a little time browsing blogs and what not and seeing all of the really great images that have been posted lately and I am feeling a little down because my own stuff is pretty blah of late. So with an apology to my four followers and anybody else who views this blog, I will make an effort to post cooler stuff in the near future. Thanks for sticking with me. Cool stuff on the way...really. I mean it. Okay cool stuff start happening....Cool stuff?
Hi. As you know, I'm illustrating and designing a book for high school students about emotions. There is a chapter on anger,fear, surprise, disgust,sadness and happiness and so on. I need to lay in clinically accepted photos of faces with these emotions, but have been waiting AND WAITING for my publisher to send them to me. I was forced to use myself as place holders. When they received the current ruffed version their comment was: "Oh...eww we'll get those to you." 
After some further deliberation and Amara changing her mind 10 more times before going back to to the fairies concept, we came up with these three fairies.
Now, not everybody likes fairies (a concept very foreign to someone who watches Tinkerbell at least once a day) so I added dinosaurs and she liked the three above. We turned to the computer and started to paint these in Photoshop.
Painting them was a blast, Amara sat on my knee and chose colors while I painted and talked about color choices and so on. As the images got more fleshed out before her eyes, she would giggle with enthusiasm. 
I had to do these quickly as she wanted paint as well. I would finish one and she would say "my turn" and grab the stylus and have a go. Below is an example of her handiwork. 
I felt the cards needed something on the back so I whipped this heart up. You would like this could be blasted out, but Amara sabotaged the process TWICE. Finally we got this nice little heart below.
Here they are all printed out. 
That was a lot of fun, though I really didn't have the time to do it. Amara and I both enjoyed it and honestly I have worked for worse clients. Make your own and just know it's from Amara. Happy Valentine's Day!
