Work In Progress

Hi all! After quite a  hectic week (or should I say weeks), I finally had time to continue my work on my design project. First, I added lines to the finalised sketch to act as grids separating the four different sections of the   design. Used the line tool (Pen tool) for this.

After that, I added the background colours that I thought were suitable in reference to the ideation sketch that I posted previously.

Not perfect but I later changed the sequence of the layers so the colours would be behind the animals. As you can see I kinda was testing out a colour suitable for the seal.

I later used shapes to fill in the polar bear's head after finding out that simply using the brush tool disastrously resulted in uneven lines and spaces. So here's the polar bears head. Not perfect but the basic shape that I wanted is there.

Next, I tried doing the seal's head.

Turned out good but may change the colour later.

I spent a much longer time on the penguin's head as it had more components than the other heads. Again, not perfect.

Lastly the walrus' head.

Next, I moved on to making the popsicle stick for the polar bear. I created it's shape by adding a long rectangle and a circle at the end to make it oblong. Chose a orangey brown colour. To add the texture, I opened the Blending Option tray and chose a wood texture style for the popsicle layer. Adjusted the colour and opacity to find what's suitable.

Happy with the result as it really looks like a popsicle stick.

Next, moved on to the ice cream cone. Created a shape resembling an ice cream cone and added shadows for dimension. For the texture, I couldn't find a style resembling the cone in the Blending Options tray, so I found a cone texture which I overlay it on top of the shape. Looks too dark for my liking so may lighten the colour later.

The penguin's sno-cone was easy as it only required adding a rectangle shape and warping it to make it look like a cone. So, after that, I moved on the the walrus' double popsicle stick. Duplicated the same popsicle stick that I made earlier and changed the colour.

Later, I made the initial sketch layer invisible and filled up the empty gaps of the background with the different colours respectively. Added the minor important details like the eyes, nose and the penguin's beak.

Almost done! I added the tears by constructing shapes of rectangles and circles together. Changed the colour of the seal's head and the cone lighter. Looks better.

Finally, I changed the background colour of the polar bear as the previous colour was a tad too bright. Cleaned up the edges as well.

So, the basic colouring of my artwork is done! Still undecided on the name. Will keep on experimenting with different textures and effects to complete it. But for now, I'm quite satisfied with the results. Should I just keep it simple, clean and poster-like? What do you think? Do tell me... ;)