The Potato Couch Workout cont.

Hi..Part 3 of Potato Couch illustration. I have added a pant for my Mr Potato Couch. This is Yogi's idea to put it as a pocka dot pants...:P
Today I have been browsing around the whole day. Finding inspirations, ideas & most of all goals to get me going...I have a new goal today. I wanted to work for Warner Bros one day...hehe. Because of that, I have make up my mind to study on illustration for two solid hour everyday...mainly practicing & improving my skills so that one day I can be proud of myself.

I saw a site with nice illustration..I wanted to be just like him one day.

Headers for Beauty Blogs

This is what I have been playing around today. Some blog header design. The headers below are created using Adobe Illustrator CS3. All the pretty girls down there are firstly drawn on paper before I actually captured the image using a camera. After that as usual, I outlined the whole illustration again using a Pen tool in Illustrator. Then, the same process to colored the whole illustration take place. After all those hard work you will actually get the results you have always wanted.

It is not that easy to generate idea all at one time. So, is normal for you to create something not that nice at the first place then slowly working to improve it bit by bit as your inspiration & creativity comes along....So keep on trying & trying whenever you feel stress or losing out of idea.

Beauty Blog Header

Material (s) Used: Paper, pencil

Tool (s) Used: Lumix Camera, Adobe Illustrator CS3

The Potato Couch Workout cont.

My potato character don't seems to stands out...so I did a new one today. Here is the new character.

A fun & friendly Potato Character

What do you think of my new design?

Material (s) Used: Paper, pencil
Tool (s) Used: Lumix Camera, Adobe Illustrator CS3

The Potato Couch Workout

Hi.. It has been quite a while since I last entered a contest in 99Designs.com. Today, I'm quite proud of myself. I actually completed 1 design for the Potato Couch Workout contest. It is actually a series of card that the contest holder wanted to do. The winner got the chance to designs the whole series of the card.

First, I take a photograph of the design drawn (another option if you don't have a scanner). Then, I used Adobe Illustrator to redraw the outline. I have actually tried in with Adobe Photoshop as well however, there are certain criterias that made me choose Adobe Illustrator at the end. After that, I color the design. Finally, put down some shadows on the design to make the character looks more realistic.

For your information, you can either use Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop to color your t illustration. It is really up to you. Both of the softwares are almost the same but not quite. The way you do something in Illustrator is different compare to Photoshop. You can play around with both of the tools & see which one really suits you.

This is the potato character I come up with.





This is the final product after, 5 hours of hard work. What do you think? I have always wanted to become a hardcore illustrator. I envy those who really good at it. This is all my hard work after trying & trying few times. I always wanted to know how some of the illustrators can have a smooth texture on the illustrations they did. Always post those questions to them whenever I saw a nice illustration either in a blog or youtube or devianart. But, no one seems to answer to any of my questions. My friend said every successful illustrator have their own secret that they won't really want to share with others. So, I have no other choice but experience it by myself...


Material (s) Used: Paper, pencil
Tool (s) Used: Lumix Camera, Adobe Illustrator CS3

Web 2.0 Christmas Email Design

This is the contest that I'm currently working on. This is 1 of the contests in www.99designs.com. My very first time in designing email template. Didn't actuaaly know what it was at first however the word 'Christmas' make me joined it. For your info, I love Christmas. Maybe because of the white snow, the friendly Santa or maybe the cute snowman. haha. I don't really know why.

Found some reference from the web about email template. Just submitted 1 design so far using the Santa that I have created earlier (reusable component). haha. Take a look at it & please comment....



Wish me luck...Lots & lots of them.....