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On most Wednesdays, check this blog for a strategy, process, or reflection for illustration with the iPad app ProCreate or Affinity Designer. This week my art and photography was inspired by three challenges: 100 day project, 5 cards in 5 days, and a Spoonflower design challenge.
Greeting Cards: Folk Art
I’ve been drawing bunnies in different styles for the last eighteen days, with a goal of 20 bunnies in 20 days for The 100 Day Project. The last several days included folk art bunnies, which have also become greeting cards and a Spoonflower design challenge. I ‘m loving the greeting cards, the background of which is an old pattern I repurposed as a background for the forest bunny rabbits. The outline florals fit with the style of the folk art bunnies. I changed the hue, saturation, and brightness to create three different cards with four of my folk art bunnies.
Greeting Cards 5 Cards in 5 Days
These added to the cards I made for Delores Naskrent’s “5 Cards in 5 Days” challenge. For that challenge, I revised my chocolate bunny into a pink one; I just didn’t like the dark color. Here are the rest of my cards for that challenge. For most of the cards, I repurposed older art. The folk art bunnies above with the pink and chocolate ones are new. The “amazing” card was created with assets from Delores’s VIP “5 Cards in 5 Days” course. I will be uploading these to my Zazzle Greeting Card collection soon. If you have questions about how to repurpose older art, just ask in the comments below.
Spoonflower Design Challenges
The Heritage Design Challenge is perfect for the folk art bunnies:
Vintage Bunnies, Bugs among the Gingko in Traditional Folk Art
Spring green pops with the beauty of a vintage spring with traditional folk art bunnies and bugs hopping through old world ginkgo and flowers.
Kid-friendly for DIY projects for a renewed old world charm of nature in traditional, treasured folk art motifs. Inspired by early spring when bunnies and bugs stir among new sprouts, bringing renewed spirit to all.
This is really one of my favorite styles, and I do love the “wavy lines” pattern design, thanks to Jennifer Nichols lessons at her Creative Journey Community [affiliate link]. It’s an easy, but intriguing pattern to both design and view. Her lessons also taught the folk art / block print look as well.
Coming up is another design challenge, Bold Florals. Soon the Shooting Star flowers will be popping up — their vivid colors would be perfect.
I decided to create a flowing pattern like a meadow filled with these lovely and tiny flowers in Affinity Designer. What do you think? It may not be bold enough. I may try again with the wavy pattern design. I am very excited that I was able to create the whole thing in Affinity Designer. The only part I completed in Procreate were the two background textures– the small grasses and yellow dots. I created the repeat patterns in Procreate and, with Adobe Capture, made them into vector svgs to use in Affinity. That’s a process I described here: Vectorize with Adobe Capture.
The 100 Day Project
The 100 Day Project has a history: I don’t know it, but I’ve seen social media posts about it for years. I think there’s more than one. This one is from Lindsay Jean Thomson with a website, IG, and podcast. The hashtag is #the100dayproject.
The goal is to make a plan for drawing every day for 100 days– five to ten minutes. That seems doable, doesn’t it? What if you miss a day — listen here. My advice: enjoy it; don’t worry if you miss, just keep going as you can.
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Thanks for stopping by!
It’s been a busy week for learning, improving, and trying new things in both Affinity and Procreate.
The more you draw and design, the better your art develops, along with your confidence. We were all beginners once! If you have any questions, just ask! I’d be glad to help with what I know. Find time to make art every day!
Follow a few teacher artists like the ones in this post. I am so thankful for the communities and courses these artists create to help the rest of us learn and improve.
You can find many on my Artist Resources page. Take a look at their IG and YouTube. Find one that fits your learning and art preferences and stick with them a while to develop your skills. Every day, another aha!
You’re welcome to follow this blog for art inspiration. We can share with #warmup4art to enjoy our work together! I look forward to your sharing and find me at @42Sheri, on Mastodon Sheri42, on Flickr teach.eagle Sheri 42.
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