My Adobe Illustrator design was making stickers. The title of my design is Pengu. Penguins are by far my favorite animal. They’re so cute and their waddle is so funny. I just love them! Originally I was creating a t-shirt but as I was designing it, my opinion of the way it would look on a shirt changed from “wow this is going to be amazing!” To “oh gosh, what am I creating?” I decided to scrap the entire idea for the back of the shirt, and focus more on the design I had for the front. The front was much more interesting and it popped out more to me. I then created many silhouettes of penguins and made them into stickers. The message I am trying to portray is that it’s not the end of the world to scrap one idea for another. I had already finished the design for the shirt, but I hated it by the time I was done. Changing it from a shirt to stickers has made me much more confident about the quality of my work. I also think fewer people will have to look at my artwork if the design was to create stickers.
The things I valued from this project was learning how to navigate better through Adobe Illustrator and learning valuable life lessons. I learned more keyboard shortcuts and I also learned how to use the pen, although most of the work I did with the pen was scrapped with the back of the shirt. Being able to tell myself that I will still have a good project after deciding to start again with the stickers was very important because that allowed me to persevere and finish the project to my liking. I think the design I ended with looks simplistic which is what I am going for. I like that it still looks like a penguin while keeping the minimalist appearance.
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