Category : print

Clouds

When creating my little clouds, I struggled to make them just right. The always seemed to be a bit too cartoon like and didn’t fall into the correct style.

After doing some googling I found these vectors here: http://designyoutrust.com/web/the-cloud-vector-pack/

DYT-the-cloud-icon-vector-pack

But I didn’t want to just use a template when practicing with the pen tool is more fun. I copied the general shape from the picture and got the desired effect after changing the stroke options within illustrator.

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The Tipi Tents!

I wanted to capture more of what Glastonbury represents, but instead of using music notes and all that rubbish, the initial thought was people, but illustrating that would be a bit odd. Other than mud and wellies, Glastonbury has a lot of tents so to keep in with the hippie movement and roots I noticed that the official site had tipi tents within the background.

glastonbury-site-bgPlacing this image into illustrator combined with the pen tool, I could easily build up nice simple shapes to create my own version of a tipi tent.

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Monsterism?

A brief chat with my tutor lead me to a style called monsterism, it’s very basic graphically but visually, rather nice! I’m quite a fan of nice simple style and looking at Pete Fowler’s work has introduced me to such a style. Take a look for yourself here : http://monsterism.net/

The clouds are a style I wish to use for my designs and the mono tone colours too.

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