Wednesday, October 3, 2012

How I Make Pretty Things

So a few months back I met Julie at a creative conference. Since then we have declared ourselves besties and keep in touch frequently. She had brought this journal with her, and when she opened it up I was all like "wait a sec…I recognize that!"


Julie has this shop called Julie Ann Art. She makes handmade cards for any and all occasions (yep, even for bed hogs and candy corn haters)


I always thought she used a font to make her cards (I mean, its just so precise!) but when she opened up that journal I saw all her cards in "hand drawn" format and was just blown away at her creative process.

I think she needs to make a font and call it "Julie Ann" (I know, I am just so creative here, I should be on her marketing team or something)

I thought it would be fun to also share some of my creative process.
Even though I do have a lot of typography art in my shop I also have a decent amount of illustrations too.

Now for the most part I free hand these illustrations on the computer, but sometimes I need a little help and make a doodle as a jumping off point (side note: how fun is it to say the word "doodle"? My tongue feels like its doing the samba everytime I say it) (Doodle doodle doodle)



I know, for some reasons all my doodles look like they have fur. I can not draw in clean crisp lines.

Once I have my doodle down I upload that sucker to the computer and clean it up and "de-furry-fy" it.


Then all this designer magic happens and it turns into something like this



huzzah!

Whats your creative process?

xoxo
Leonora

ps-also in cased you missed it I am giving away a ton of Yellow Heart Art loot over here, and there are 3 winners (I know, we can bear hug me later)

8 comments:

  1. wow! that is awesome! I love what the result of just a little idea turns out to be. this is GREAT! and I'm totally sharing this on twitter!

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  2. Love it! Love Julie too! <3

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  3. Does the ebook you helped write "photoshop for bloggers" go over how you make your doodles become "de-furry-fied"? I wanted to draw my own logo for my biz, but I couldn't figure it out.

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    1. ha! do you love my technical graphic design jargon? "de-furry-fy"? Unfortunately in the ebook we don't mention how to do this technique since its more advanced and I don't use photoshop to achieve this :( I use a program called illustrator, which is more like a logo design program to trace over my original piece of artwork.

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  4. I waaaaant that phone case soooooooo bad! Dam i need an iPhone.

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  5. I am most inspired when I'm surrounded by jewelry findings. I rarely map out my designs and come up with them more on-the-fly (or "organically," to sound more fancy-like). So I'll be looking at a piece of chain I just bought from an Etsy seller, realizeit's like a mini version of a chain I removed from a crazy long necklace I found at a flea market in Illinois and think, "Wait, what did I do with that vintage gold brooch with the flower?" I rip off the pin of the brooch and finangle the different but similar chains to create a necklace that looks like it should have always looked that way.

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  6. I have the same furry problem with my doodles.. and I thought I was the only one!
    ~Amy Nicole

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