Well the research and inspiration is a finished chapter now. I have spent the time actually trying to create some “art”. i have created my background in Illustrator and I’m now starting to work out how to present it. I have also created the little illustrator flower in Illustrator. I will use this in my magazine as well.
The illustrator icon is created by using a tracing image of the icon. I had some troubles creating the gradient until I figured out how to use the transparency gradient mask and discovered that the grayscale palette dont give a a black colour that is fully black, meaning its not fully transparent. So I had to choose black from the rgb or cmyk palette instead
The wall paper I created in Illustrator is done by using different gradients, shapes and blending modes, blending paths etc.
The first thoughts have also gone into how I might present the first two pages. I’m still not fully satisfied but you get the idea.
I’m still not totally clear on how I want to present the actual tutorial, but I have a rough idea.
wow. nice. you must of used the ndesign studio tutorials cus the backgrounds and flowers look almost identical!
pretty cool.
Yeah i did use the ndesign tutorial for the background. But as far as I remember the flower was done by tacing an existing Illustrator image.
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Untravelled.