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| Rough draft concepts of bookmarks |
I think
this is the most interesting little adventure I've ever had when
creating and producing a group of bookmarks. It started off with
showing my US Facebook followers a rough draft sketch of some designs
I was thinking of doing for a Halloween/Dia de los Muertos theme.
There was some interest into it, of course most of my male friends
were going “Ooo boobs” but besides that I had a lot of people
wanting to see what the designs would be like when I got the designs
finalized. What surprised me was that one of my graphic design artist
friends asked me for permission to use the rough draft as practice
for him to “ink” by computer. Figured why not and told him to
have fun before I busied myself with trying to figure out the colors I wanted to use for this series.
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| Finalized colored designs |
Once I
had the final versions of the designs done, I posted them and opened
up pre-orders which means those who place their orders before I get
the group of bookmarks produce have secured their order. I was
prepared for my male friends to pre-order for the set but what
completely took me off guard when my female friends were the ones
that kicked off the ordering spree. Really? I seriously did not see
that one coming.
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| Final product |
It wasn't until I was able to get the first batch of
bookmarks produced when I started seeing the guys start filter back
in to place orders. It was obviously just one of those weeks but the
fact that it seemed as if the men and women of Facebook were trading
days of when they would be on.
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| "Dia de los Muertos" by Luc Grigg |
Late on Sunday when my graphic design friend got back to me about what he had
done to my rough draft. I had apologized to him when he first asked permission to play around with the sketches since I knew that they were a bit on the messy side. I really think he did a great job and look
forward to seeing what colors he was going to choose later if he
decides to color it in. Go ahead and check out his account LucGrigg.deviantart.com to see more of his line art
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