FOR BETTER DESIGNS

I have just fin­ished my lat­est art­work called I love the cof­fee smell. It’s made from scratch in Pho­to­shop and Illus­tra­tor. In this post I will show you the final art­work and a brief expla­na­tion of how I made it.

It’s a mix of vec­tors and paint­ings which give this nice look and feel. Hope you like this.

Step 1

First I started this art­work will­ing to design a sim­ple cup of cof­fee in Illus­tra­tor. So the first image was this cup I designed:

The cup looked nice but too sim­ple. I was not sat­is­fied of this result. So a friend sug­gest me to change the col­ors of this.

Step 2

The more good look­ing coloured cup:

This one is much bet­ter, the red col­ors give a new look of the cup and they fit good with the hearts.

Step 3

Need a background:

The beau­ti­ful cup need a beau­ti­ful back­ground. So I have copied the cup from Illus­tra­tor and paste in Pho­to­shop as a Smart object. Started to play with the brush tool, adding the back­ground, the table first, the win­dow and the cur­tains. Feels bet­ter but still simple.

Step 4

This cur­tains does not look so much good. Change them!

Here a friend give me those sug­ges­tions: The cur­tains not look good, add book and maybe a vase and work on the win­dow. Yes this tips are use­ful and exactly good cri­tique. The book and the pen are vec­tor here. Other objects just a drawing.

Step 5

This cur­tains need to be more transparent.

That is a good tip again for this art­work and def­i­nitely worked well. Just played a bit with the opac­ity of the cur­tains layer to make them a bit more transparent.

Step 6

Add a pic­ture at the wall and we’re done.

So added a pic­ture and moved the cup and the book around till I like it. That’s my final artwork.

Hope you like it and feel free to reply to this with your ques­tions, sug­ges­tions or critique.

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