…when something is not going to work and is a bad idea. You see, I fancied doing a hand drawn banner, and I wanted to do one in a doodle style. It started out well. But, having finished, scanned and uploaded…it looked…bad! So, I took out the tendrils, still bad. I took out the face altogether, still bad. I installed the old banner.
So, back to the drawing board. I think part of the problem was, that when I created the colour scheme for the current layout, I based it around the banner I had already created. Where as this time, I was trying to create a banner to fit the current colour scheme, and got it wrong. Also, it wasn’t on a white background, which might have worked better, it was on the wallpaper background. I am still going to do a hand drawn banner, but I think I need to rethink the style, tighten it up, and basically do a better job. I think it was just badly drawn and too cluttered.
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Overall: I like the first one the best. I dig the face and the curleques. I think it is quite well drawn. Stop being so hard on yourself.
Readability: Cursive fonts are generally difficult to read. That being said, these letters are pretty darn readable. The only thing would be whether I would know the first letter was an ‘I’ if I didn’t already know it. (Though the ‘I’ looks really cool.) Since it’s a banner, the readability factor is probably pretty important, so I guess it deserves its share of attention. (I’m not really an illustrator or a graphic designer, so I fully accept this as one of my own weaknesses.) I suppose you should concentrate on the word Illusio and making it readable, since that’s the important part of the title.
Colors: The scheme looks great together, but maybe you should simplify it a little. The only thing that jumps out at me about the colors is that there’s green in the ‘C’ and not that much anywhere else. Perhaps it could mimic the colors in the ‘I’.
I’m being completely nitpicky, but you asked for an opinion, so here it is. I figured if you had it in your head to completely redraw it, I’d tell you what I thought to give you a different point of view on it before you start.
I hope I haven’t just completely rambled about nothing here, and maybe contributed some useful thoughts.
Cheers,
Julie
Cheers Julie.
Those are all very good points. Lukes view was that it was overall much to dark, particularly given that the overall layout is quite light and airy. I think if I do another, I will keep it much simpler, and the colours lighter. For this banner I used Faber and Castell Pitt pens, whereas the artwork in the current banner I used watercolour paints and ink. Perhaps that is the way to go and a lighter touch. I think also as you say, the cursive font is hard to read, and if I were to use it again, probably wouldn’t embellish quite as much.
Thanks for the good feedback, it all helps. x
I quite like the face… it’s the little black bubbles along the edges of the letters that make it hard to read for me (says she, peering out from behind the new reading glasses *sigh*)
Cheer Helen…
Yes, indeed…I think I just made it over complicated and once it had been reduced to size, was just too cluttered and dark.
New glasses huh!?
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I love them all Lorrie, but perhaps the two first two with the faces are a little cluttered..they look great but just too much methinks…if I were to use one for my banner it would be the last one.
Cheers Vic..
I have decided definitely not to use. I also thought the last one the best one. It was a valid experiment, and I shall take a different approach next time, and also different materials.
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