Holidays are coming, I hope there is no doubt about that now... People (including me) are getting anxiety attacks drowning in the surrounding chaos of ordering gifts, making lists “for Santa”, obsessively checking all “Sale” tags all over the malls, internet shops and etc.
This is my second “proper” Christmas, and I already regret the idea. Somehow all my life I could get by with a one-cute-little-thing for family and friends. Now it’s getting serious, it’s getting Big. And that’s not necessarily a good thing, you know.. What is the problem with a single nice gift anyway?! Why does it have to be a whole sack of sometimes useless stuff added just to fill it up?
I don’t know about cosmic reasons for that, at least there are no physical laws which require this epidemic to happen. Lately, trying to relieve some Christmas overload stress, I decided to make a Christmas banner for my Two’s Ruse Etsy shop. Something cheerful, funny and smile encouraging.
The start was easy: I copied a bunch of Christmas pictures and created a Photoshop document. After I chose the best one for a background and filled the canvas, it was time to make my creation more sophisticated in style, more “holiday sparkly”.
Hehe, first painting moves were shy. Then I messed up, and that’s where the show started. Trying to make up for the wrong choice of color, I kept adding stars, blimps, other shapes... Then I thought it looked kinda monochromatic and boring, so I tossed in more colors, then more, more and more! Finally, I realized that I actually forgot to place the name of the shop on the banner! There was a little chance to do it in a way that you can distinguish the name from the background, since all the banner already looked insanely bright. But I’ve started, right? I couldn’t give up and just quit! So.... The result you can see here:
I guess all mistakes a dilettante in design can possibly make you can find in this “art piece”!
But I’ve made it, and the worse part is - I’m gonna do it again! :)))
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