POST CARDS!

Step 1 - Thumbnails always help!

I recently got post cards made to send out to friends and family for Christmas this year. I will also be sending them out to employers when I FINALLY graduate in four weeks. Anyway, just to be fun, here is my step by step process of how I put together my post cards...ENJOY!!!

Step 2 - I lay out a simple sketch of shapes to get the formation I want.

Step 3 - One GIANT leap to a line/detail drawing.

Step 4 - Ink on tracing paper.

Step 5 - Scan

Step 6 - Print & point lines to what part of the figure I want to have colored.

Step 7 - I went into Cinema 4D Studio R13 to lay down some basic shapes, shadows and lighting to help give me a small general idea of how the lighting will hit the figure. Looks silly...but it helps.

Step 8 - On tracing paper I color in with a light blue color pencil where I want the dark lights to hit on the figure.

Step 9 - Bring illustration to Photoshop.

Step 10 - Even though it is on tracing paper, there are still a few messy parts that need to be cleaned up...

Step 11 - Adjust levels to get clean and crisp black lines.

Step 12 - Color layout.

Step 13 - Color shade layout

Step 14 - Word bubbles are always nice!

Step 15 - POSTCARD MADE! Time to send out!