Overall I'm quite pleased with my final postcards. To say it was the first time I had properly used illustrator to create work I think that it came out alright. Using Illustrator definitely opened my eyes to different ways of working, I was always really against digital image making because I had never used it properly, so everything I did always came out really poor. This brief definitely made me want to keep using Illustrator as I was really pleased with the outcomes and did not expect it to work so well. I think the thing that makes me like digital illustration so much is that you have complete control over your colour palette and can easily change it.
I like the general layout of this postcard, but I think I made it too busy, I was scared that the background would look boring if I didn't put anything in it, but I think the amount of detail I have included makes it look over crowded and I think it would have looked better with less background pattern. Also I found out that using Google Translate to make arabic text doesn't actually make a sentence that makes sense, which is something I should have checked before I finalised the design.
I am quite happy with the composition in this piece, I think that through testing and evaluation I came to the best conclusion, as the design is not too busy yet not uninteresting. I am pleased with how the background patterns turned out, and this is one of the things I enjoy most about using Illustrator, making something any size I want and then resizing it without losing any quality.
I really think this particular postcard worked very well, the composition, colour palette and imagery work well together to communicate the gang that I was trying to illustrate. I enjoyed tracing over an image and using shapes of darker and lighter tones of the same colour to create the image and give it dimension and depth.
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