These were a series of christmas cards that I made for the Illustration staff for christmas. They were really simply done - with watercolour and edding fineliners, but I wanted to give them something nice to say for christmas as thanks for the semester so far.
I really like this as a set - and I took scans of each of them before sending them so I could clean them up and use them as a formal set of greetings cards. I ended up cleaning up two of them - which are here:
When scanned, the hue didn't look quite right so I changed it to a red and blue instead. I also cleaned up a lot of the paintwork with the clone stamp tool, and re-drew any lines that had bled or didn't quite look right.
I really like them! even now - at the time I finished them I couldn't stop pulling apart the imperfections in them but they look really nice cleaned up and printed. I think my work is sometimes better when it starts out analogous in some form (either as a painting, or a drawing on paper) and then cleaned digitally. The only problem with this process is its incredibly time consuming, which means its difficult to experiment with it. This brief also gave me an interest in greetings cards and motif patterns, which then informed the work I started doing for my 'Big Kahuna' Project in the second semester.
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