hello welcome to another studio vlog so today's vlog I am very excited I feel
like I do say that quite a lot but as you can tell from the title today we are
designing some new greetings cards that's the main thing and I'm also going
to attempt to get the backing cards done for the enamel pin badge and then maybe
some other things but I will not tell you those in case I don't actually
finish them in this week's vlog so yeah I am gonna start with the design to the
greetings cards I've got a bunch of little quote things that I like the
sound of so I'm gonna sort of sketch them out play around with some layouts
and I will screen record my iPad so you can see me doing that
first few greeting card sketches are done I thought I would just talk you through
what I'm thinking these are obviously like literally the first time I've ever
written out so it's really messy but it's just to kind of mentally picture
the idea that I have in my head so yeah you'll kind of hopefully get the idea
so I just used the same little template that I found on Google for the backing
cards I just used that again because I'm going to do a six greetings cards
so down here were a list of like little sayings little mantras I guess ever I
liked and then I've just sketched them out on each one so I've got your doing
great and I thought of doing like the top two in calligraphy possibly using
the G is in line although I'm not sure if I like that once I actually draw it
properly so we'll see and then writing great in like the capital letters then
we have this one besides chocolate you're my favorite and then I'll draw a
little chocolate bar on the bottom obviously better than that one but again
using like the block letters calligraphy block letters calligraphy yeah I like
that then you are my favorite notification with little notification
symbols at the bottom I'm not actually sure what a notification symbol look
like I'm gonna double check but yeah I'll do three different ones at the
bottom and then the same kind of calligraphy and block font I want them
all to be obviously part of a series but different in their own right then I have
these two so on the left I have thank you and then in brackets I didn't fit in
and I can't be bothered to write it again but it's gonna say for being my unpaid
therapist which I thought was funny because you know you know when you rant
to your friends and like they're always the ones that pick you back up or
give you advice that's the kind of card you send to them and then you are
powerful beautiful brilliant and brave and then the little cross boxes possibly
with this on as a calligraphy style so yeah I've got five so far I think I'd
like six but I've asked my pals for some ideas on what to actually write in there
because I want it to be kind of cute and quirky something you've probably not
seen around on a greeting card before I don't want it to be too like generic you
know so what I'm gonna do now I think is pull each design into a
separate artboard in procreate and then figure out from there how it's
going to look the colours it's the colours that I always find the hardest bit
I'm so bad at like making a final decision and choosing colors so we're
going to choose hopefully some nice colors and then I can start drawing them
properly in procreate and then I'll take them over into my laptop and I'll show
you that process of course relocated to my desk I feel like I've not sat at my
desk for so long I'm not really sure why but what I'm gonna do
let me I'm gonna screen record my iPad so you can see and then this is the
drawing that I've just done so I've done not really a drawing is it's a sketch I'm
gonna just save that as a JPEG and just save it to my iPad and then create a new
a4 sheet of paper I'm gonna keep it in portrait and then I'm gonna import
add photo insert photo and put this in there and I'm just gonna keep doing the
same and zooming in on the different drawings so yeah I'll keep positioning
these accordingly and then I'll click on that layer lower the opacity and then
I'll draw over it I always find I end up with like five different layers of
drawing and I end up tracing over my own work a lot to get it perfect because I
obviously I want it to look the best it can and so that's what I'm gonna keep
doing effectively I'm not gonna like talk through it all so I'm going to kind
of play around with the placement of the different words and maybe use the guides
I also like turning those on so in canvas drawing guide you can turn that
on and you get little blue lines to draw towards I guess so I want great to be
straight so I will go off those lines to hopefully draw that straight and so I'm
gonna do that I will
time lapse it again and then I'll get back to you
time has passed as you have seen it is now dark do you know what I've decided
that this winter weather really gets me down I don't know if I've noticed it before
probably because the past few years I've always been so swamped with the uni
work I never really noticed the time or like when it got dark and I didn't
really have a schedule I could happily work till 2:00 a.m. but now I actually
work normal sort of hours 9:00 to 5:00 it gets dark at like 3:00 4:00 p.m. and
it just feels really depressing so yeah lacking motivation today which is fine I'm
gonna work at my own pace and because I'm setting the deadlines which I
suppose a real perk but also kind of not because I'm never gonna get anything
done if I keep procrastinating like this so yeah I've got one of the greetings
cards sort of sketched out it's not the final design I've just opened it now
after like not looking it for a couple of hours and I can already see things I
want to change which I think is quite good and I think when I design when
anyone designs it's important to leave the work for a little bit go and do
something else and then come back to it because you kind of come back with a
fresh pair of eyes I also like to sleep on it so I'll not finalize this today
I'll probably look at it again in the morning or next week and then see see
what I think so yeah anyway I'll shut up I'll show you the
design I only filmed a little bit of it as you'll have seen but here is the kind
of vibe I'm going for so it still has the grid on it that's acting as
guidelines but I've put these little stars on it I thought that was kind of a
cute addition and then I've gone with some kind of calligraphy style text and
the block text and sort of flattened the edges off however I'm gonna adjust the
size of the word you and the word are just so it kind of balances I feel like
it looks a bit off and then obviously I need to do the colours so what I do I'm
just opening illustrator on my laptop and yeah if I go into what I did
earlier so I've just gone into like the little cog at the top file share
JPG doesn't really matter about sharing as a PNG at this point and then i'm
gonna air drop it to my macbook i love air drop so much I feel like I say this
every other video but it's just amazing and then on illustrator I'm gonna open
it up and image trace it so for you Wow that lighting there we go so
if you don't know what image trace is give it a google if you've got adobe
illustrator it's worth knowing about if you haven't don't worry about it
but adobe illustrator offers something called image trace which is what I use
for all sort of my drawings like this so when I designed the pin badge the enamel
pin that was done using Adobe Illustrator and image trace and it just
makes life so much easier especially when it's such a basic design like this
and it just makes it a lot quicker and easier so I'll show you that now and
this is the process I'll use for every every greeting card design I love that you
can see the cartoon characters that I had to download when I was editing the
previous video which by the way you definitely need to go and watch I feel
like a lot of people didn't see my previous video it was a drawing
challenge with my pal Charlotte I'll leave it in the clickable I button thing
and in the description but yeah I'm pretty sure it didn't go into sub boxes
because not many of you guys saw it which I'm actually quite upset
about it's very funny I giggled it a lot so if you're in need of some cheering up
go and watch that video anyway back to the task at hand I always do this I
can't concentrate on one thing for very long so I'm just opening the drawing in
Illustrator so here it is it's on an a4 canvas so it will open a4 in
Illustrator and all I need to do is with this tool selected this one here
selection tool I'm just going to click the image and then up here it switches
to image trace and if it doesn't come up it just means your settings are a bit
different so you can go up to object and then go right down to the bottom image
trace and then click make and then it will do the same thing as clicking just
this button up here so I'm going to click that button it's going to tell me
it's to it going to be slow cause it's a big file press okay and
then now it has outlined all those black lines so if I press expand you can see
that there's a lot of blue lines outside everything I've always find it so hard
to show this it's created a path which means I can scale this up and down and
it is now a vector file again Google vector files because I'm not qualified
to describe that but yeah I'm gonna do that with the other ones I've designed
and I'll show you the process of me kind of sketching the other ones out so yeah
ello it's now Monday I've got a very offensive spot on my chin apologies not
having a good skin day that time of the month however I'm gonna get to put in
all the greeting cards that I've designed so far in Illustrator I'll show
you the process for a couple of them and then we'll see how they look I might end
up doing a little mock-up thing but we'll see
all right I'm done I'm done I'm all designed out for the day and I really
really like how they've turned out I think they do need a little bit of
tweaking but I'm just so indecisive I'll be tweaking them for probably the next
week but I'm hoping to get these ordered and on the shop and ready for like
January time so yeah I'm really excited I hope you have enjoyed this studio vlog
I've really really enjoyed creating these greetings cards as always thank
you so much for all the support and if you have watched this and you aren't
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me and I love having you guys as part of the family so yeah thanks for watching
again and I'll see you soon for another one bye