Movie Cover

At school I've been studying Shakespeare in English and our most recent assessment item was an extended play on a character from Hamlet. So i thought I'd whip out my graphic design skills and blow everyone away with a beautiful hand made title page/cover. (To make up for my dodgy acting ofcorse) I'm still in the film/editing process so you will have to wait and see... But here is my cover :)

I had to learn a few new photoshop skills for this one. I used a bunch of watercolour brushes, and a mixture of text, photography and my own flower illustrations (which I scanned and uploaded then blended with photoshop) Hope you enjoy! 

Izzy xx

Design a Day: Day 9

I made this little Facebook cover photo design for my sister. For the background I used a textured paper-style background and layered water colour brushes in photoshop. It is free to use for everyone :) Enjoy xx

Design a Day: Day 8

I have been using photoshop lately, learning how to use the quick selection tool, blending modes and importing brushes like these water colour ones, used in this design. 

This is a little sneak peak of my own branding design that I have been working on.

Hope you enjoy!

Izzy xx

Design a Day: Day 7

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Design a Day: Day 6

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Izzy

A Design a Day: Day 4

Here is a quick little design I threw together tonight, it does need improving and I will definitely do some more work on it. But I just felt like creating something cute so here it is...

What I learnt today was how to use the path finder for a pattern- just by creating a compound path. 

Enjoy xx

Izzy

A Design a Day: Day 5

I was in a little hurry today so I just played around with some geometric shapes and just got a bit creative adding some colour. I didn't really look at a tutorial for this one. Hope you enjoy...

Izzy xx

Design a Day:Day 3

 I was searching for a tutorial to make a nice background and this caught my eye straight away it was so pretty! I was also so excited to find how easy it was. I also learn a few photoshop skills making the background. 

I found this photo on Pinterest that worked perfectly.

I added a Gaussian blur and an overlay of a pattern i created in illustrator, played around with the blending mode then added a grain. Once i finished the background, I added a quote from my friend that she asked me to do up after seeing yesterdays design. It turned out really well and she loves it! 

Enjoy...

Izzy xx

A Design A Day: Day 2

Something I've been wanting to do for a while now is to work out how to get that chalkboard/vintage look to my designs. A bit like these...

 

Once i found a quote on Pinterest, I searched for a few vintage fonts on Dafont.com and downloaded these textures from Spoon Graphics. Other techniques I used were a slight radial gradient and a chalkboard stroke outline to the text. Here was the result... 

TADAA!

I hope you enjoy and have a go yourself, I had heaps of fun!

Izzy xx

A Design a Day

Now that my computer is up and running again and I have my Adobe programs back; I've decided this holidays I'm going to create a design a day starting with this one. It's just a little project that I've been wanting to do for a while now. I hope it while inspire some creativity in me and I can get some good practice with the programs as I am still learning. I'm going to try learning different techniques, today I taught myself how to distribute objects around a circle using this tutorial. And this was the result...

How are you all anyway? I'd like to hear back from you! Comment what you'd like to see more of on my blog maybe some recipes, sewing tutorials, design tutorials, daily doings etc. You choose :)

Izzy xx