Everyone has different ways to love and since the week of love is going on and Valentines Day just a week away, here are some of those various feelings on greeting cards to show your love if you are keen and affectionate. Greeting cards are really not good when sent virtually, they mean more to people when they are sent in-person/physically with hand written notes. It's Perfect and STILL works for showcasing your emotions. Which ever card you choose, the ultimate goal is to decoratively send your love in physical form instead of virtual an emails or a sms. So pick one and sent it!
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16 ravishing illustrations on blue art-paperMade with freehand mixed shades of metailic gel-pens and ball-pens on blue art paper 320 gsm.
It's mostly all about silhouettes. For the Dezign Inzpiration issue 7 I'll focus on Silhouettes one of the many forms of art I love to play with in design as well in my drawings, Silhouette is an all-time favourite. What makes it one of the most recognized forms of art is the fine detailing and intricate aesthetics. For those who don’t know what a ‘silhouette’ is… In simple terms it's any image represented as a solid shape of a single color (usually black) against a lighter coloured background. We can define silhouette as a filled outline of any person, animal, object or scene, only more detailed while its interior is featureless and in solid color. For a better understanding, a very simple example to explain silhouette is shadow theatre. In this particular form of theatre the artists perform behind a screen and not in front of it. Either flat articulated figures (shadow puppets) are used to create cut-out figures which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or the artists themselves act behind the screen to display shadows that tell stories. The cut-out shapes of the puppets are highly detailed and are used to achieve various effects by moving them. The practice of silhouette initially used to create portraits. Prior to the advent of photography, silhouette profiles cut from black card were the cheapest way of recording a person's appearance. It started as a cheap but effective alternative to the portrait miniature, and skilled specialist artists could cut a high-quality bust portrait, by far the most common style and was very popular in the mid-18th century. Here are a few apps for silhouette related functions. And here a few games And some music Though how this word came in existence is a very interesting story.
The word silhouette derives from the name of Étienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister who, in 1759, was forced by France's credit crisis during the Seven Years' War to impose severe economic demands upon the French people, particularly the wealthy. Because of his austere economies, de Silhouette's name became synonymous with anything done or made cheaply and so with these outline portraits. The term silhouette, although existing from the 18th century, was not applied to the art of portrait-making until the 19th century. And since then it has become a great part of many ways. So keep making and innovating how else you can use this cool form. Basics design principles must be understood before preparing a set of layouts, although only a few considerations are suitable for the designer for use in preparing a graphic two-dimensional layout. Nine of the most important considerations reviewed in simple illustrations here are, 1 Balance, 2 Alignment, 3 Emphasis, 4 Proportion, 5 Movement, 6 Pattern, 7 Contrast, 8 Unity and 9 Perspective. We can name Design Principles in many ways and with variety of examples, and I shall continue to write more to help out those who are looking forward to a future with design. Just get your principles of design right.
These simple illustrations were made using Adobe Illustrator, and you may as well use Adobe Comp CC, yet there are many other software.
3rd Dezign Inzpiration issue of 2016 for graphic designers and creatives. Kudos to Cool Artists and Designers among us. Featuring some of them here. Cheers!
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