Hello People!

So I just wanted to let you guys know that I will be away for a few weeks because I will be very busy finding a job and creating new artwork for you all to see. I really do appreciate you checking on my blog for new work and that I will be posting some more. For now you can take a look at my artwork posted on my other sites.

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Hello Bloggers!

Here is my final cereal box design I created in Corel Draw! I must say it was very difficult but never the less it was well worth it. It was a good challenge to take on considering I was not used to corel but ended up learning some cool new things I didn't know I would use. The objective of this was to design a cereal box targeted at children and the main focus was illustrating the cartoon since thats what kids get attracted is the cartoon character and the packaging of course.

I first drew him in black ink and scanned him in and began cleaning him up I had to re draw him and color him in and make him look real life looking so kids could be attracted to it. Anyways I had alot of fun with it and hard time with it but it was worth from looking how great it turned out.

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                                                                                 Fatima

Hey Everyone!

So I will be graduating this year and I have my portfolio ready and my resume and cover letter but still one more missing important thing...Oh yeah a business card!!! So I have finally made one and think it relates to my style and personality.

Here it is!

This is my business card as I think it is very clean and professional looking keeping it simple and not to override crazy fonts and text but making sure it signifies who I am and what I specialize in. I have included my contact info on the bottom right hand corner, such as my name, email, and website. I used the colors pinks and purples since pink is my favorite color, keeping it girly but age appropriate. As well a black box to place the white text so it stands out and people are able to read it, also my name and occupation on the top.

Hello All!

Last week I was assigned to do a billboard project where I had to paint an ad that only a person would understand in four seconds. This was a favorite project of mine to do since I like designing billboard ads and painting. My idea was to do something girly and fashion inspired so I was doing research online and came up with an idea drawing a bunch of girls half body holding their shopping bags along with a slogan and the visa trademark logo illustrated on the front of the billboard. So I pulled out my paints, and brushes and went straight to work!

Here are my thumbnails!

I drew a few of half girls body because I was suppose to cature the main focus which was the shopping bags since it is about a billboard ad so the part of drawing the whole body was not necessary. 

Next I started drawing the comp in pencil showing the exact outline of the drawing.

It was just a rough draft on how I wanted it to look.

Next i grabbed all my paints and started painting the body since it was just black and went with the easy part first. 

Here are the steps though out my painting. Hope you enjoy it!

So as you can see I have painted the girls in black silhouette with bright colorful shopping bags and used the slogan"Visa-Your Flexible Friend" I thought it was pretty catchy and fits well with the overall design, and last but not least I carefully painted the visa logo as it was the most important element out of the painting. So thats it for now I will show you the end result as soon as I decided what color I should paint the background. 

Take Care! 

Fatima  

And so here is the final! I choose to use a light blue for the background because blue to me seems very common as a choice and is able to fit with almost any design. I had a hard time deciding after asking my classmates which color they would prefer and they all suggested to go with blue just as I hoped.

So that is my final step though the process and hope you all liked it as much as I enjoyed creating it. I think I will keep working on more of these billboards since its what I like to do, So watch out for some more because I'll be doing alot more of them for you all.

Take Care!

Fatima

Hello Bloggers!

So this has been my 10th illustration doing for Illustration Friday and really have been enjoying designing artwork based on their choice of word each week and made them part of my online portfolio such as carbonmade , flickr, facebook G plus, my blog and all of the networking tools that allow me to show and share my creativity and artwork. All these tools are a great way to show off your work and personality because it allows you to expand your goals and future and the best part is that it doesn't cost you anything so its free, and I think its so important to have these social networking tools with you not only because its free but because it can get you an job, could work at home, save time instead of meeting face to face with now skype and facetime being available and to connect with people all around the world. So I'll get to my illustration now haha just felt like I had to bring it up to let you all know by using there's tools it can really help you start your future and connect with people you might have the same hobby and interest like you. Ok now I'll stop, so this weeks word is "vocal" and obviously when hearing vocal you think of music, lyrics, bands, and singers.  Now I was trying to keep this blog about my style which was the purpose of this blog but decided I wanted to explore different styles and designs not just my own just so I was able to explore other avenues not just my own. 

Here is the first step I did!

I first created some pink bubbles and lowered down the opacity so it was'nt so harsh and dark my idea was to make it look very down to earth and soothing.

I then duplicated the bubbles to the right to make it look like its falling from the sky kinda like balloons almost and used a variation of pinks and purples.

I then created a light to dark pink gradient so it matches the overall design keeping the colors color coordinated and flowing consistent.

I started to draw the guitar with my wacom tablet making the guitar pink and girly and shading in the guitar handles and strings. 

So now its starting to all shape into a guitar and is looking pretty nice, I also used a little swirl around it to kick it up a notch. the coors used were black, pink, and purple once again keeping them all color related.

As for the last stage I also drew in some music notes and titled them so it was coming from the guitar as if the guitar was playing and they moving along with the song. So thats my final stage for my illustration friday "vocal" and hope you enjoyed my process and progression throughout my illustrations and really hope I inspired you all and that you got some ideas and inspiration though my designs. Once again thanks so much for your support and comments and as always take care!

Fatima 

Hey Everybody!

First I would like to start saying "Happy Easter To Everyone" and hope your all enjoying your easter. So this weeks word I believe was"return" and had a good idea what I wanted to do, this time more romantic and sweet. So I drew some thumbnails showing a beach with a couple in love while showing their affection for each other. My concept for this was to illustrate something unique and not something you would thought of which is good, cause I did'nt want something that would instantly come to your mind, so the idea I had was to draw a couple in love on a beach with the water and sunset looking very subtle and romantic with the title"True Love Finally Returns". Now you probably now understand what I was going for and realized it wasn't what you thought of when you heard the word"Return". Now for fun part I will now show you the steps I did to get the final result.

The first step I did was drew some thumbnails here is what I came up with!

So here I drew two sheets of paper just so I can pick one I liked which was the last one of the couple on the beach falling in love. I chose that one and started drawing it in photoshop with my wacom tabet. 

Next stage I drew the couple on the beach  kissing as a silhouette and started shading them in along with the beach as the background with the sand. I choose very soft colors that were complementary as the theme is a sweet and romantic scene. Later I shaded the sand a golden brown with a rough like texture to really make it look like sand. As for the ocean I used different shades of gradient of blues to to give it that realistic feel to the water and made it sparking to set the mood of the layout. I left the couple dark for now just to give you all a glimpse of what it looks like so far. I also used my wacom tablet for the whole illustration using different brush settings. 

Alright almost there! So here is a few images to show you guys how its looking, as you all see I started shading them in giving it more of a relaxing feel to it making it look like a romantic setting scene. I later added a sun to make the setting dream like and lowered the opacity so it wasn't to harsh and opaque and to give it more of a calmness look to it. 

Alright so Im finally done! So as you can see I decided to add some more shading to the sun such as red and orange so it has a subtle mood to the scene . Later I finally added the text 

"True Love Finally Returns" I used a drop shadow and bevel and emboss also a color fill that was a soft light creamy beige. I really liked that choice of slogan and placed it on the middle left centre so it would align beside the main illustration to draw the viewers eyes to the couple.

So thats all I did for my illustration for "Return" and hope you "Return" for my next illustration 

Stay tuned!

Fatima

Hi Everyone!

So Im here doing my next illustration which is the word "swamp". Now when I heard this word I first thought of a muddy swamp lake with a creature lurking in the water typical I know...So instead I was researching and finding something relevant to the word"swamp" and found an image of a girl stressing because she has been swamped with homework and decided to use that as my image after changing it up. My idea for this image was to make it into a sort of cartoon illustration like so just because I wanted change my style of of using a different medium.

So lets begin!

So here is the image I found and will use as my theme of my illustration. Now the idea is to take this image and create a cartoon vector posterize look as you will see I will be showing you the steps and process as I go along. 

The first step I did was open up the image and made a duplicate of the background layer, then I made the foreground and background black and white and went to filter-sketch-stamp and changed the lightness and darkness to 1 and left smoothness to 4. 

Next step I did was I hid the bottom layer made the top layer visible and click on the eye dropper tool and sample the girls shirt and selected the sketch layer and hit the brush tool and colored in her shirt and went to the layer effects panel and selected multiply, this will make it look painted and natural on her shirt.

After doing that I just got the eyedropper tool and started picking up the original colors and applying them. I just used different colors because the original colors were plain and boring so I used my own colors for this purpose. Here is what this step looks like!

As you can see I added the colors just to give you an inside look on how its being shaded in and blends well the the stamp effect I created above.

Here is what is done so far, I just kept on coloring the image and made it look very clean and consistent. Its a a rough looking draft I will clean it more later just wanted to show you how it looks so far.

Here is the final image I spent my time adding the final touches and colored the whole image using complementary colors keeping conservative and clean. Further more I added some make up on her just to give it more flare and brighter colors.

So thats about it for my final illustration "Swamp" thanks for stopping by and checking out my work don't forget to come back soon for my next illustration. 

Take Care

Fatima 

Sorry You're Happy/ Art Licensing And Surface Design

Hello everybody, so this week my professor Leif Peng brought us in two professional graphic designers and illustrators to our class on tuesday for us to hear about their experiences and life as a graphic and illustrator working in the design industry and thought they would share us their thoughts and advice for us to hear. So to Begin I will just briefly explain what their business is about. SorryYou'reHappy is an art licensing and surface design studio made up of husband and wife Kyle Reed and Jen Hsieh. They are two freelances who have teamed up to form themselves to start their own business called"SorryYourHappy" which I think is a really clever name. They specialize in print and illustration with a very unique style I don't see often. Jen and kyle are a married couple that work in different styles yet similar illustrations. they are very skilled and talented and both have an eye for color and design, which makes them an expert because color is an important asset to have when creating a design. I really found what they saying was informative and helpful which made us even more prepared for what we were going in for. They gave us tips and advice for what to prepare and answered our questions which was very helpful. Jen was born in Taiwan and was raised in toronto, She does advertising and illustration. She is a freelancer in illustration that lives in hamilton, Ontario. Jen works with a variety of clients around the world, she does advertising and publishing and has worked for The New York Times. You can view Jen's portfolio here. Kyle was brought up in the suburbs of Southern Ontario. Raised on a diet of picture book and Saturday morning cartoons, he has created his own tiny worlds and stories for the past decades as an illustrator. His clients include Scholiastic Inc, Cricket Magazine, Mcdonalds and Anheuser-Busch. Kyle was also part of the CORE Digital Pictures' 2D design team behind the popular children's educational cartoon "Super Why".You can view his portfolio here. 

Here are some pictures of their work!

Here is Jen's work

Here is Kyle's work

Here is a photo of who they are

You can contact them at 905 297 9454

You can e-mail them at hello@sorryyourehappy.com 

Visit their website at http://sorryyourehappy.com/

Like them at http://www.facebook.com/sorryyourehappy

Thanks for stopping by!

Take Care, Fatima 

Hi Everyone!

So Im almost done with my photoshop booklet and obviously wanted to show you what I got done so far. So to begin I started creating my second last piece and come up with theses two designs I created from a tutorial on youtube, considering how hard it was to find ones on website tutorials since they were not high resolution and the tutorials were very time consuming, so I found a few that I liked and added my own twist to them because we are supposed to design an effect based on a tutorial and giving them credit or we could come up with our own. I really enjoy working in photoshop just because there is no limit to expand your creativity and can do all sorts of fun and neat things, definitely my favorite program to work on.

Here is the first one!

I really like the energy in this with all the different swirls and colors that blend together.

Now here is the second one!

I really like how this turned out, it just looks so retro and has that vivid slow motion effect that I like and was going for, and I feel the font and color really sets it nicely and meshes well with it. 

Hi Bloggers!

So Im a week or two behind thats because I've been really busy with work and school but Im back and will try to stay more on top of my illustrations. So for this illustration I still wanted to do this illustration just because I had a really good idea what I wanted to do. Now I know it might seem very typical and obvious when you hear the word Sunglasses and thought "she will do sunglasses" yes I was but not by itself so I was doing research online trying to get some ideas and inspiration and came across a women wearing sunglasses and used only part of it and started outlining the sunglasses just to get the structure of it, and began drawing the rest of the portion. I knew I wanted to draw something fun and chic so I thought of doing the obvious with my own twist to it. 

I first drew the sunglasses using the colors dark purples and lights and shades in blacks and browns to give it more contrast and tried to make it look realistic.

Next I added a background and choose the color pink because I wanted it to be girly and feminine, but later I will add a gradient color to give it more dimension and edge. 

Next I started to draw in the hair and mouth to start showing more of the women and building the whole image up by putting it all together so it would soon form into her face. 

Later I drew in the skin and layering different tones of skin values to enhance more shape and real life texture to her so it wouldn't look flat and boring and drew in her nose and shaded it in, made her lips look fuller by adding a gradient to add a shadow to it so it would look bigger and used the color purple as I did for her sunglasses, keeping the color scheme the same for this layout. 

So its looking pretty good so far and really liking how its turning out, so to continue I basically drew in all of the elements in, and finally added the text called"Your Perfect Shades"and think it fits well with the overall image. 

And finally just to add that special touch I added a purple and pink gradient background as I mentioned above to really give it that final touch to it so it looks edgy and classy, as for the text I used a drop shadow and bevel and emboss to make it stand out also using a cursive font to look more sleek and chic. So This is my final hope you enjoyed it! Don't forget to come back again and see what I come up with my next illustration.

Until Then, Fatima