Day 4 Christmas Advent Challenge
It’s day 4 Christmas advent challenge and I’m showing another of my day 3 designs first. I love this one! I very quickly sketched this one straight into Photoshop on my Wacom (affiliate) tablet, using my watercolor styles which I love to use in Photoshop. These digital watercolors I purchased from Creativemarket.com (affiliate). I absolutely love the effects I can achieve with these watercolors without even getting my paintbrush out. I use real watercolors too but sometimes I like to work quickly and it suits the purpose. I also have to admit that I am what you call a quick artist (if there is such a thing) and do a lot of designs in one day, sometimes flitting from one design to another.
So, as promised, I’ve put together a little mock-up of how I see this design being used as gift wrap. Looks gorgeous doesn’t it?
Today’s theme is snowman. I actually did a few of these designs because my daughter said the first looked creepy…you’ll decide for yourselves on that because I’m still showing it. I actually ended up with two quite similar and one abstract which I like more. First up is the creepy one. What do you think?
This second design passed the non-creepy test but does actually looks like he’s wearing a rather nice pair of oven gloves!
Last but not least is the minimalist snowman and below that I’ve put the design into a gift wrap mock-up.
I would absolutely buy this design as gift wrap. Very simple but still has a festive spirit. Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram @zaramartinadesigns to follow my work in progress and check out the Instagram feed for the @fourcornersartcollective who are hosting the advent challenge.
I’m not sure if I’ll be back tomorrow with another update or after the weekend but I will be back to show you more advent designs. Have a great weekend whatever you’re doing, I’ll be designing as usual! See you next time…
Loving reading about your advent-themed creativity Zara! So happy you’re taking part in the Four Corners Art Collective Challenge. Really like last snowman design, and looks great as wrapping paper!
Thank you Pippa! You know me, I do love a mock-up..need to see more of the real thing now though 🙂 Time to start developing my own products!