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Developing Digital Watercolour Splats.

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One major part of this project that I was really excited to develop and learn how to do was the create ink splats or watercolours marks through illustrator without using actual watercolours. I watched a couple youtube tutorials and then experimented myself with the methods, my first attempt showed good colours and contrast between these colours, however there wasn’t that watercolour effect that I wanted to get out of it. Experimenting with digital paint-01

 

I then started experimenting with the gradient of each individual shape. I isolated each shape and worked on them individually. This was the outcome from this:

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I liked this outcome, however I felt that having the darker shades on the outside of the shapes didn’t have the same effect as actual watercolour naturally does, and the white in the centre of each shape is too obvious, when I realised this I swapped the colours around and got this result:

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This is exactly what I wanted my result to be. I want to develop this further, using different colours and hopefully using it in my logo and brochures. I am very happy with the outcome of this experiment and I am definitely keeping this in my designs.

Colour Experiments.

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In todays workshop we were focusing on colour play. This included learning the difference about RGB and CMYK. We then went off to experiment ourselves. I went straight onto Pinterest and looked onto images that I was drawn too specifically for their colour schemes. I then downloaded these into Indesign and with using the eyedropper tool I was able to select the images and it came up with the strongest colours that it could pick up. I then put these into a presentation pdf:

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My favourite one out of all of these experiments was the last one of ‘The Wanderer’ which I have included already in my research for my logo. I really like the major contrast in the colours, however they work really well with each other. I placed these colours into Illustrator and experimented with Shades, Tints, Complimentary Colours and Saturation / Desaturation.

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I really like this colour scheme and I am going to experiment with this one when creating more content for ‘High Seas Ink’. I will also develop another a colour scheme I like for a back up.

Logo Development.

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I looked back into my influences and took this image:

 

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I really like this image and decided to created my own version on this on graph paper:

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I then scanned my sketch into illustrator and used the line, curvature and pen tool to create this digitally, I really like this design and I want to develop this further. I am considering adding ink splatters to this design, and adding colours that I would like to be the companies colour palette.

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Further Development on Font

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I spent last night drawing each type separately to develop the companies name further. I kept it similar to my previous styles, however I combined the two:

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I then took this font and compared it to an updated font draft I also drew, to see if it went well with the style. I do feel like the font is too fancy compared to the theme of pirates. I also am not completely satisfied with the logo design as there’s too many elements and I feel like the logo should be kept simple for it to be successful.

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I want to re-design this and combine the anchor and a ship together, inspired by an image I saw on Pinterest earlier last week. I am also going to experiment with drawing the font in a rope style.

Developing A Font and Logo

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I have been researching into popular tattoo fonts and also looking more into the possibly logo inspirations. I started drawing this weekend what my font and logo could look like, I decided I’m going to go for an anchor as my main base but somehow include elements of a 1800’s HMS Ship. This was my rough first idea:

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I then started thinking in more depth about my typography that I wanted to use for the companies name. I looked on dafont.com and searched for ‘script’ types. I found two tattoo inspired fonts and then combined the two, this was my first sketch:

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I really liked this style, however I was a bit too fancy for what I needed. I drew it again, with less curves and made sure the capital letters joined up to each other

 

 

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I like the boldness of the font and the different thickness in the form of each letter. I like the fact it keeps in the ‘tattoo script’ style but strays away from it through the spacing and the different parts of thicker line. I plan on developing this more, focusing on each letter separately.