I did lack inspiration lately, not being able to really pull off something good in my spare time. Finally as I sat to some specific projects my creativity just unlocked again so I had to use it 🙂
My latest creation is the one presented here – it started fully as digital project (unlike my regular ones that I start on paper. The idea was to create Native American Indian totem inspired illustration. My idea was completely different at start though – I wanted to keep the bird drawn with thick black strokes and colourful stained glass like fill. After some consideration tough, after I had the lines done (thanks to amazing grid tool 🙂 ).
This is when I started to consider another finishing for my totem carvings inspired bird giving it low-poly/origami kind of feel. When I decided on that concept I knew from the start I want to keep it in pastel palette, even if this is not my usual choice. I worked out 3 palette possibilities (after some inspiration from colourlovers collection) – orange, blue or pink. Since I usually do not work with pink I decided to risk it and challenge myself with usage of that color. I created pastel pink palette (with touch of peach to make it less common) and added blue background. Then I decided to give it a bit of twist and apply long shadow (for which craze finally caught up with me). As an additional twist on it I created gradient from dark muted pink on 100% opacity to black on 0% opacity. After bit of consideration I added also text. As a finishing step I added on multiplied layer of bird but instead of fill it had 1 pt stroke in dark muted pink with 20% opacity and the illustration was finally done.
Because of color choices and different turns I took on the way the former inspirations are not as visible as I thought they will be but I still love the final result. I think it was really nice small project that I really wanted to share. It was amazingly relaxing to work on it and I hope finishing this small illustration will help me get inspired for another projects : )
Font used: Garda Filler
madness designed. 