thank you cards

I finally have my computer back!! ;_; I swear I'll take better care of it!! I refuse to give it up until after 6-7 years of use D:<

anyways....here's a thank you card I'm working on to give to my relatives
the concept is kind of....hmmm I don't even think I get it haha but I'll do my best to explain

so I've always thought that every amazing artist has 'magic hands'. I think drawing and painting amazing things with simply paint, brushes, and paper...basically making something out of nothing and imagining things that aren't there is just simply magic. So that's where the magic hands come from!

On the cover, I have a plant on which these magic hands are growing and is being watered by some....magical water (aka my family supporting me in pursuing my dreams) haha (this is beginning to sound ridiculous haha).

Inside, I've cut off two of the magic hands and stuck them on my own and it inspires me to paint and be creative.
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finally!! I can post pictures!! Firefox kept on giving me error messages on blogger whenever I tried to put up a picture. But here it is! OMG...I tried to give it a little brush texture by scanning hi-res images of sponge blots and dry brush things I made with ink on water color paper. It took FOREVER to scan it at 2400 dpi as a .TIF file. I gave up and tried to just scan it at 1600 dpi as a .JPEG--didn't take as long as the tif did but good god..it took forever to just open the file on photoshop, took forever to just save it as a png, and took forever just to place it on adobe illustrator. I am never doing that again! There is too much waiting involved with this process I have no idea how my instructor goes about doing his illustrations that way @_@. My computer kept on freezing in the middle of saving/loading/moving--ick just terrible!!

anyways--the card turned out great!! :) i printed out both sides on ultra premium presentation matte paper and stuck them together--super thick card but it looks legit!! I just wish I put more space in there to write

September 4, 2012 4:11AM