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

color color!

after tracing the logo... i took the cursor to the logo and make it smaller in size to fit in the space... to make it more appearing, i increased the stroke of the black outline from 1 to 8 scale..

for the colouring, i chose green. not only because i love green but green is a symbol color for muslim people. to make it look nicer, i tried to play with the gradient. i chose black, dark green, light green, yellow and white.

in order to have an impact for coloring, i use the circular / radial gradient. the white color will be the first color and i will put it by the leaf and on top of the logo..

and for a result, tadaaa.....!! hehee... isn't it beautiful? (perasan jek aku ni.. huehuehue)

am thinking...

what can we do about the mac logo. its just an apple. its a black apple logo. erm.. so i figured out that malaysia is popular for its etnic.. its batik.. so i figured out that it might be cute if i put the batik design in the mac logo. woo... chantek kan? haha i noe..

i dont have a scanner and it seems that this lappie doesnt have any application of paint T__T so sad.. huhu.. i drew it before in ma book but yeah.. no scanner no drawing!!

i made tracing around the apple logo and cut it to the new layer... so its kinda look like dis. coz this logo is quite big. its bigger and i have to make it smaller.. hehe...

oh yea.. wat type of batik design im trying to put in? let me find some part of it..

tada..! so this is it! this is some part of the design i was trying to figure out and put it in the apple mac logo.. walahhh~~

selected

for days... i've been trying to find a symbol..

for this assignment..

i thought of taking mcDonalds..

but i had no idea how to change that symbol at all..

so yeah.. i chose this..

huehuehue....