final pieces

i started by adding my ink splats as my background image and i couldn't decide whether to have just a few spats or to have a whole background of them, so i went on to the slogan. on this one i have started to design the oasis gift card message. i have used the font "a gentle touch" i felt this girly, curvy fun font worked really well for the brand and also contrast well against the structured font of the oasis brand logo. i then felt the page looked to bare with only a few splats so i started to create a whole page on ink splats. 

 i came out with this as my background and i liked the few spats of pink that stop it being so black ad white. i used my own splats scanned in and put into photoshop and i also used illustrator ink brushes. i think this has given me a really nice effect.

After i had decided on the background i put the message back on the screen and also added the gift card that i have made in illustrator. i really like the way this has turned out, mixing graphic work and also hand rendered work together to create something different. Although i felt the message was getting lost on the page so i tried making the stroke thicker but that just distorted the shape of the text and the letters merged together. i found a solution by copying the message and layering it to the right of the original message and using a paler pink so it makes it look my 3d.

this is what my message looked like once i had added the layer on paler pink, i also thought some daisy's would be a nice way to dot the I and also oasis has a strong floral theme so it still fits in with the brand. looking at my work again i decided the ink was to predominate in the work so i took the opacity down and added some more flowers and layered them in different pinks on the gift card and i felt this has achieved what i wanted.