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after i made the trace smaller, i've gained all of my mom's wish list and made it simple.. put the "happy birthday mum" in different colors.. the trick was to make the stars.

i let the drawings stick with the white background and so does the character.

head start!

all of us have different ideas eh? while everyone else are doing some other types of cards, i chose to do a birthday card. special for my mom :)

among all of the designs, i finally find my idea to make one. before i started to make the front page, i've created the inside first. ahaks.

first, i made the character. it is the same person as the previous works of mine. the "onion man". because it is sooooo cute!

i made the trace first.

then, i added the clothes of a sailor.. and because of the character is a baby, i made a songkok instead of a sailor head just to make sure it looked malay c(:

then i made it smaller in size...

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

calendar starter

for the second assignment, i'll take hari raya theme. my theme is "hari raya is the best!" lame! i noe.. but i donno.. i like it that way.. and so, this is the first draft..

yeah.. thats the small guy... haha.. comel tak? hehehe.... then its like very empty around the sunrise.. so i just draw in some birds there.. but yeah.. birds come in many sizes. so yeah..

fin

the company name : Apple

the company website: http://www.apple.com/

the company current logo:

after a long thought, i chose this icon and put in some color in it. just like all the previous posts i sent. most of the tools i've used were tracing, coloring and also gradient. nothing much on the batik design i had.

the batik design i traced, copy and pasted it over on top of the original apple icon and made it fit into it. i put in different colors so that it wont look so dull and people wont get to see any difference.

Malaysia always emphasis natural flower; hibiscus. i put in different color base such as red, blue, green and yellow. even though its still not clear, it represented not only the Malaysian natural culture but also the Malaysian flag.

thats y i chose this design for my logo. thank you :)

flowery

from the batik design, i took some traces around the hibiscus flower which is kinda cute. haha well.. it is the national flower rite.. after thought bout it, i chose red color. why?

the answer is easy.. contra! hehe. the apple symbol is already green. so if i put yellow, its not stylish enough. but red.. woah! people will notice it right?

i still using the same concept gradient. but i choose red for the last, followed by orange, yellow and white. the traces i took using the same size which is 8 i think but i chose white as the outline.. if its black, its not really suitable because it will just be ugly..

conclusion, its all about gradient baby! hahaha... it took me some time to get use with the tools as im using CS5. of course it has more tools than CS4 but still.. hehe, im new!

as for the flower leaf, i cant put green as the symbol has already been in that color. so it would be really weird okay? i chose gray coz it can fit in most of the colors.

after i've done this, i thought to myself.. am i finished? the answer is NO! haha. its so simple. doesnt have the little flowers around it just like in the batik design. so i figured out i had to take a trace out of the batik just for the last time..

i put it as blue! haha. malaysia colors are based on nature. so it consists of red, blue, white and green. its consistent with the title of the assignment.

haih.. after few hours of struggling over this application... i've done it! yahoo! all together... 8 freaking layers baby! hahaha