don give up!!

in order to make the character more expose in the calendar, I decided to make it bigger. in order to make it bigger, I have to group the "onion man" body and head. after that I group the sun and make it lighter in such a way it looked like its a background sun.

after I made it bigger.. I group the "onion man" and the sun together.. cut it first and play with the background color. I only used gradient (of course) but in order to make the tone different, the middle change of color has a very small gap.

after doing this, the color will be half green and half orange + yellow to give the sun impact on the background.

I cut everything first actually. haha. because I want to arrange them back to make the calendar full with things and create an impact when the user see it.

the raya festival this year will be held during september. i used "bauhaus 93" font and make the year font bigger because it is this year festival after all right..

for the "jawi" writing, i make it bigger. in order to give it impact on jawi, beside the function "stroke".. there are choices of wave writing... so i chose the second (if im not mistaken).. and put it by the left..

and as for the pelita, i grouped them and made a copy. the bigger one i arranged by the right side of the "onion man" and the smaller version of it, I arranged it by the bigger side. well, its confusing if I only explained it. so, yeah.. the below is the result..

last but not the least, a running cow! haha.. I have no idea why I chose this cow.. Its from the comic book but I drew it slowly and finally, its developed to be a cute one.

every kampung has cow. and so, I inserted it inside here. grouped it and made it bigger. u have no idea how i color this thing. its soo hard! i have to draw the circular inside the cow and color it one by one.. huh...

so walah! this is my calendar.. im done! yahoo!~

inspired

you guys must be wondered where did I get the idea of putting everything in a calendar. and in this case, for the sun background... I took it from this calendar...

I can't trace it so I used the pen tool slowly and drew it. the result for the sun is not dat round shape but it still can be considered as the sun when you look at it. hehe..

and as for the calendar date... I planned to put it as vertical only. but after awhile.. i chose to do it circular shape following the sun shape.. and dress it up nicely with the color..

in order to make it as circular shape, I used the envelope wrap and chose "arc". the "arc" has to choices; whether its vertical or horizontal. so, I chose vertical instead.

before I did the the calendar dates, I changed a little things on my "onion man" whom my character in this calendar. he supposed to be a malay person so I dressed him up nicely with baju melayu (which is familiar with malay culture during raya festival) and songkok as his hat to go to pray...

usually in cards and festival posters, there will be jawi writing that bring a "selamat hari raya" theme.. so I included it in the calendar. but this is just a primary.. because the writing is not yet complete version.

oh yea, after I inserted the calendar date.. I insert the colors and like previous works, I used gradient most of the time to put some impact on the sun especially. hehe