Develop and Finalize
After choosing my color schemes, I ended up doing the switching of the patterns, and I felt a lot less confident about the whole project. Both of my designs felt very plain and spaced out. For awhile I just played around with my designs to try and figure out where I wanted things to go, and how I wanted it to look.
I ended up deciding my tail should be repeating, one under the other, four times down and my snowflake go in kind of a checker board patter, with three rows. I liked the way the both looked but I still thought the looked really plain. In class, we did peer reviews, and it helped a little bit, but I didn’t really get useful input back.
I’m not trying to be rude, but all my comments were just fats about my iterations, and didn’t say whether they were good things or bad things. But even one thing was clear to the others, my designs were too plain. I knew I needed something else so I ended up deciding to add things in the middle of them.
For my lizard tail I thought for awhile what to do. I knew I wanted to give it more of a jungle feeling, as well as cut off the abrupt ending of the tail. I tested out different leaves that I wanted to do, and ended up choosing the most jungle feeling. I wish I would’ve kept the leaf progress, but I ended up deleting all of the other leaves I tested. I just enlarged the leaves, put them in the middle of all the tails, and made them the two greens of the dots on the tail. I made the darker green the border and middle of the leaf while the lighter green became the filling.
For the snowflake, I spent two hours trying to figure out what to do. I tried putting wavy white lines between the flakes, I tries putting ribbons with diamonds. I tried putting banners with circles, and even tried putting my own circle chain across in between each row. I ended up deciding to just space out evenly sized circles between the rows, and alternating the two least used colors of the snowflake, which were both darker, muted blue. I really enjoyed the outcome of this, and it gave the whole thing a chevron look.
I ended up transferring these to vectr on my iPad, and did the whole final layout on there since you can’t save as a pdf on the laptop software. After I put it together I really fell in love with both of my final outcomes and still think that this is my favorite project for BOTH design labs so far all year. I hope you love my designs as much as I ended up loving them.
