-日曜の晴れ着 | SB Postcard project-

This project started when I saw some boxes. I loved how they looked, and I wanted to use it for something. As my friend's birthday was approaching, I also wanted to get her something that was totally awesome. So I got the idea of putting some of her designs/characters into postcard form.

I began with just scrolling through some design work that I've seen from her, and see what would be suitable for this project. I came across a lot that worked, but some of them, I didn't have the skill to pull off yet. So from there, I reworked the sizes, see what could work and what didn't, and put together a final draft, with a much more uniformed size and I started having a clearer idea of what it would look like.

I had decided that at that point, depending on how many I would complete, I would put in some new characters/design as well, so the last few boxes are just that. As I was putting this together, scanning, touching up, colouring, I began the search for a method to print this onto postcard format, as the original plan was to send this off to Japanland in time for her birthday.

At this point though, I was having a lot of trouble trying to figure out what colours to use. I noticed that while if I had an idea of what I wanted something to look like before, I would have no trouble. But I began this with just pencil drawings, and I hadn't thought about the colours at all before, so I felt like I didn't know what to use, and concluded that I still needed to learn about how colours worked. But even for actual painting, you could just try until you find the right colour, in electronic creation, this was an easy task. Plus, ultimately, rather than thinking very specifically about which colour looked good, I found that having a broader view and stepping back, not worrying so much about the details, the process became much easier, and it turned out pretty well, I would like to think!

All while this was happening, time was running out, and I came to a point of decision about how I was going to carry this whole project out. I inquired about printing, but I had trouble looking up information on very small scale printing. This and the fact that I've become much more environmentally conscious, I decided that instead of printing it out, and having it sent, both of these being inefficient use of resources, as my present ultimately was more the design than the actual card itself, I decided to create an electronic version of it instead.

This turned out to be a much better idea in the end, and the present was well received, which I was actually quite nervous about. It was a good project though, as I felt the practice I got from it was quite valuable, hopefully meaning that the next project will be a little smoother.

Labels: process, project, sb postcard

tommy @ |Monday, June 22, 2009 and 12:34:00 PM| --- 1 comment

1 Comments:

:D
I love how you posted the process, it's so cool!!! I should start doing that, too, for my projects... I always want to make tutorials but then figure it's too much work and I'm not sure who'd be interested, but I think I'll do it anyway :)

Thanks again so much, I really loved it <3<3<3

By  Kiki, at July 3, 2009 at 9:53 AM  

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