JFlah's Blunders

Thank God for great friends. This freelance job came into being for me because a friend of mine talked me up to someone she met at work and that someone actually went online to check out my portfolio . I hope to soon develop a strong working relationship with Rachael and her great web design company, Dream Catchers Web Design . The below design is for one of Rachael's clients who teaches music lessons. The deal was for a simple "turn this sketch into something digital" project. Here's their original sketch with the progression of my rendered designs. The vector designs were created in illustrator CS6. Not much special stuff in there, but I think it's a pretty good rendering from the solid directions Rachael passed along from her client and from the sketch. But I can't leave well enough alone. Below is a super rough sketch I haven't shown to the client yet. We made a deal for a simple (cheap) rendering of their sketch, but while I was watching TV...

Finally got the Directory design completed. Went through eight different cover layouts before I settled on one I was comfortable enough with to show the boss. After that, the rest almost designed itself. Something else we finally got around to finishing up were the business cards. We're getting some spot gloss on them, so they should be pretty nice when they're done. I even talked them into having a space on the back dedicated to writing notes. Anyway, after doing all of those it makes me think I need to make myself a business card too. It's been a long time since I had one. Then there's the cutie fuzzy bug we're using for the children's choir musical... We put this on our shirts and on all of the promos. Idea is from a zazzle shirt.

Life's been so busy I have neglected to post much of anything even though there's been lots of stuff going on. This week I did a photo collage for work. Here's a copy of the final HD sermon slide. Here are some of the pieces I had to work with: Used a tiny bit of water texture from this picture: Found some random splashes and waves to create the wake for the boat. Used various splash brushes (from deviant art packs, brushezzy?) to make the water on the prow look a tad more realistic. Boat Structure Pic: Then I added lots of different adjustment layers and did some warping, etc... was fun making all of those bits and pieces look like they all belonged in the scene. I probably should have blurred the wake splashes a little more... these things are never "done" - just done enough because of time restraints - but it was lots of fun and I hope everyone likes it.