Step one is to work out what I want to say:
I think summing up who I am in one image is easy enough, I am a simple fool.
Here is the finished greetings card:
The reason I chose this image is because I love dogs (and the internet), but I also find them a challenge to draw, so I try to draw them often and in different styles. I chose pink and a kind of yellow ochre colour because I love using and mixing these two colours together. I find colour theory very interesting.
I chose to recreate the famous internet image of a dog talking on the phone:
I started with a basic outline for the draft:
Re-drew it with ink and brush, scanned it and removed the background and added the text in photoshop:
Added a digital background and border:
Then used a mockup template to show how it would work as a greetings card, as I am unable to print it and show it as a physical card.
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