Designs by Day
Here is the final evolution of my Lady In A Mask! I’ve made various versions in different colors in Illustrator, and turned those various files into a GIF! I created the GIF in Photoshop. I think it’s fun to see so many colors at once.
This has been a fun project to evolve and share. Thanks for joining me on the journey!
Here is the next evolution of my Lady in a Mask sketch – Color! It took me a little time to generate the layers of shapes that were to be my sections of color, but it was good exercise to do it. Now I can change them to all kinds of colors super easily.
I did all of this in Adobe Illustrator, and had a lot of fun with gradients and colors. I think tomorrow I will make a gif – there are just too many awesome colors to choose from I want to share all of them. But I liked this version a lot.
So yesterday’s Daily Doodle actually became a two day Daily Doodle. I should have broken the steps down into two, which I have done now. And here is the next step.
So I took my Daily Doodle from the day before, 6/29/20, the sketch of the lady in a mask, and made it a digital vector image. I brought the scan of the sketch into Photoshop to clean up and darken the lines. Then I brought the image into Illustrator to do an image trace. And here is the result!
I’ve been wanting to sketch a face lately. It’s been a long time! I love sketching faces – especially eyes! A masked face is what has been in my mind lately for obvious 2020 Coronavirus reasons….
This was done with pencil and a sketch pad with textured paper.
Today’s doodle I call “Backyard Dreaming”. I’ve been working on redesigning my backyard. Well it’s really a back patio. It’s only 14 feet in depth, which really doesn’t give anyone much room to do anything on the grass that really is just weeds. Also there is a slope, so even standing out there you feel lopsided. Once I realized I could make it into a magical patio, rather than a small patch of grass, the world opened up to me.
I want to level the ground out and put in pavers for the ground. Along the edge of the fence I want to build a retaining wall for dirt and plants, and maybe another sitting surface. I want to put in an arch trellis on the other side of the fence and grow some amazing flower vine on it. Plus I want to bring in a couple planters and grow another flowering vine along some trellises on the back of the house. And of course STRING LIGHTS! Amazingly I already have the string lights up. And they are amazing.
This doodle is primarily for a design use. Obviously I would have some chairs, maybe a hammock and a fire pit out there. And once people can gather again, I would have all my friends and family out there! Thankfully I have the whole quarantine summer to work on it.
This sketch was purely done with good old paper and pencil. Some of my perspective is a little wonky, but I am actually very pleased with it. I feel like I really created the vision that is in my head.
Today’s doodle is actually a design that has been in the making. I have been sketching and prototyping my own design company logo for a while, and today gave me the wonderful excuse to bring it to life!
Here is my own design company, Designs by Day, logo! I created this all in Illustrator. Georgia is the typeface. The filigree I created with the pen tool and was originally inspired by an image of two delicate leaves. I actually really like how it doesn’t necessarily look like leaves. It imply other ideas – my husband walked in to see my work in progress and said “Ooo mermaid tail!” I like that it is open to interpretation. I also appreciate the simplicity of it, and obviously the ability to be reduced in size and still be recognizable.
I am looking forward to placing this on my work going forward!
Here is today’s doodle! It was a concept I thought of a while ago, and sketched by hand in pencil, so it was really fun to bring it to digital life! I’m a huge Disney fan, so contributing to the Disney fan art out there is exciting. I have a few more ideas in store for Disney themed creations.
I realize I need to create a signature or watermark for my pieces. Task for tomorrow’s doodle!
I only used Illustrator this time. I definitely learned a new way to use the grid tool and pathfinder to create and individually edit the squares.
Now that it is officially Summer 2020, and I’ve been out of my house for only 3 total days since March 8, 2020 – and going back to work full time doesn’t look like it’s going to happen any time soon – I have decided to begin a new daily task. I still intend on keeping my other daily tasks of remodeling my garden, and learning JavaScript, but I needed something a little more free-form and creative. I’ve decided to begin doing Daily Doodles.
My Daily Doodles will be a chance to practice my sketching skills, exercise and expand my use of Adobe Creative Suite apps, and de-stress a little. I don’t have any plan other than to sit down and create a little something everyday. I am really excited to get this going.
Here is my first Daily Doodle for June 23, 2020:
I used both Illustrator and Photoshop on this one. I appreciate Photoshop a little better for sketching and blending purposes. I also feel like I have more options for media and media mixing than in Illustrator. This is something I will explore further. I would love to be able to blend colors and layers like you can in Photoshop, in Illustrator. But I guess if Photoshop gives you this option, then what else do you need?
I love drawing.
Glossary 8
Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that’s in publishing or politics. But it’s not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.
— Heather Brooke
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