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This is a design for a silk flower business. I drew the cartoon, scanned in coreltrace and colored and added background in photoshop. The sign is 4x6 on 3mm Dibond. Digital Print and vinyl.
Whaddaya think?
[ May 13, 2008, 07:49 PM: Message edited by: Barry Branscum ]
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Very nice Barry, Could you tell me how big was the drawing that you scanned. It looks to me like you drew it with a felt pen, then scanned. I seem to loose a lot of the fine detail when scanned. Then spend a lot of time tightening up ut nodes. John
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I actually drew the original sketch in pencil on 8.5x11" paper, then traced it on onionskin with a zig marker (a non-bleeding type of pen that you can get at Hobby Lobby, or on-line. I scanned it in using a Xerox 6400 flatbed scanner at 200 dpi. The secret to a cleaner tracing is using the trace program from CorelDraw x3. It is a fantastic clean tracing utility. I had VERY little node editing to do on this drawing. It could have been tightened up more, especially on the flowers, but for this application it was adequate.
[ May 13, 2008, 12:51 PM: Message edited by: Barry Branscum ]
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Cool illustration. It appears as though the illustration is disconnected from the copy.... like two seperate entities. Can you do a layout with them as a unit?
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Nice Barry, I agree with Pierre. Maybe if you drop the background and use the worm for the "S"? Just a thought.
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Typically I try to marry an image with a graphic, and I didn't with this one....I think the worm itself fits pretty well with the text....maybe if I dropped the background panel and turned the whole substrate blue?
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I would lose the blue box, and also make "the lil" green like the worm. I dislike white text on a white background. The worm is a cute idea. Love....Jill
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I would get rid of the green border and just run the cool "Silk" faded background behind the whole sign. If you stil need a border just use the darker blue.
You may have to change the color of "worm" to red but the bottom text in dark blue should look ok on the fade.
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