Alphabet + Frivoli-Tea

This week's Decorative Illustration Project!
Our theme was illustrated typography and for the first part of the project we were to invent/illustrate our own alphabet. Mine was on things, mostly kitchen things, that are used to hold or deal with liquids:

Media:
`micron pens
`waterproof colour inks
`assembled digitally in Photoshop

And for the 2nd part of the project we were to illustrated an onomatopoeia word or a play on words of sorts. I chose to illustrate "Frivolity" which I turned into - "Frivoli-TEA". And I absolutely feel a series coming out of this pun. =)

This is the original version

But then I also decided to create my own hand drawn background pattern...

And I actually colorized it in Photoshop to be more of a light blue colour and put it behind my image=)

Materials:
`9 x 11 Bristol Smooth Paper
`Prismacolor pens
`Micron pens
`Koh-i-Noor waterproof colour inks

Oh, and now I'm also on letterplayground.com! A great place for illustrated letters and inspiration=)

Happy Thursday!

Coffee & Tea Show

For my Digital Illustration class we had to create a poster for an event. Browsing the web I found this "Canadian Coffee and Tea Show" which I thought sounded amazing! I would absolutely love to go! And who knows, maybe I will, since it's still about a year away.=)

Anyhow. Here's my poster process below. I'm not wholeheartedly satisfied, but working predominantly digitally is still fairly new for me and I have a ton of other work to do too. =)

1st came the thumbnail sketches, which I'm not posting and shall remain a mystery:)

hand drawn line work, afterwards live traced and digitally inked with the pen tool

playing around with the colour palette

Adding some background textures and stuff

rethinking the colours...

experimenting with patterns...

rethinking some stuff

That's it!

Used my own texture resources +

Credits:

Grungy Coffee Rings and Stains: by onthinair
Coffee Stain Brushes: by korn-field- 102
Texture: Tea Stain I : by frameofthoughts
Paper Pack 5: by dierat
Garton Font: by David Rakowski

Happy Sunday!