Showing posts with label Cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cards. Show all posts

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Little Princess

http://www.carolinadeluca.com/illustration

This one is about a little girl who's turning 4 years old, and her most wanted wish is to become a princess, at least for one day. Her favorite color is pink, so she dreams about herself in a pink princess dress, inside her magical castle, a castle full of towers with different colors, and stairs that will bring her anywhere. 

Finally, her birthday day arrives, and when she wakes up she finds herself in that magical castle, surrounded by magical mountains, where the sun never sets down. She goes to her balcony and sees a small skier, sliding down the spiky mountains so fast. The skier must come from very far away. Maybe the other side of the world! And she thinks, Who's that, and what message is bringing to me? 



Thursday, December 24, 2015

Felices Fiestas! Joyeuses Fêtes! 
Merry Christmas!


Friday, November 13, 2015

Celebrating with Music 
collection 2015-2016

http://www.carolinadeluca.com/card-design

Again this year time has come to share with you the illustrated card collection for this season! For all of the cards the drawing is hand made, with ink, then I give them color digitally. 
Celebrate with music, and have fun!


Monsters concert



Le cirque



 Fête au cor



Petite Sorcière

Monday, June 22, 2015

Children's card design and illustration

Recently I came back to my pencil colors to draw illustrations for a card for a child's baptism. It was nice, after what it felt to me like a long time, to color things again with pencils. Painting takes much longer than with watercolors for example, as it is by mixing many soft layers of different colors, drawn with different inclinations, that I have the effects I desire. But it is very relaxing, and it surely does test my patience :) 

Usually I don't think about taking pictures while I work, but this time, as I wanted to show the progress to the person who ordered the card, I didn't forget of doing it, and I can show here the work progress. In this work, the drawing is simple, because is the colors who give the whole magic. Although of course having drawn the right theme is always important!

The card is to be squared, 14 x 14 cm, so I made the drawing proportionally, but a bit larger to gain resolution in small details.


First drawing for the front cover, ready to paint





Coloring progress. I started from the left bottom part until I finished all the mountains and trees. Then I did the sun and the sky. Finally, the sea in the middle, the stork, and the baby throwing up the stars in the sky.

Front cover drawing finished.




Detail of the drawing in the back cover, for which I followed the same process as with the front cover. But it was much faster! :)



Finished card. It folds in the middle, so that the main drawing is in the cover, and the small one in the back.























Picture of the finished card, courtesy of the client.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Happy 2015 ! 

Happy 2015 from the ATLAS experiment at CERN, with a card I did for the ATLAS Outreach & Education group. The card uses the official typo and color palette of the collaboration. The physics from the experiment is integrated all over the illustration. The card was printed in A5 format to be given to ATLAS members and at CERN, and is being posted in the social media to wish everyone a Happy 2015!

https://www.facebook.com/ATLASexperiment/photos/a.239880036049433.51122.235921729778597/807125785991519/?type=1&theater





Some details about the various elements in the card:
  • The Higgs very elegantly dressed wishes everyone a "happy 2015". It wears a smoking for the occasion, and it's holding a cup of champagne while toasting for the new year, with lots of bubbles coming out of it, like the many particles that have been detected, and will be, through 2015.
  • Behind the Higgs there's the ATLAS detector, half-hidden in mountains made of histograms (the representation of the data distributions in some given parameter like energy, mass, etc), which represent the Jura and the mountains that surround CERN, as well as the amounts of data the LHC has delivered to the experiments. 
  • On top of the last mountain (histogram) there's the data, following very well the physicists expectations in the left side, but showing an excess (new physics? a discovery?) in the right side. Because this is what physicists wish for the next run, and the next year.
  • The New Year and time for celebration is represented by the many fireworks up in the sky, all made of ATLAS event displays, with the tracks of the fireworks pointing all to the collision point in the center of the detector.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!





Friday, December 19, 2014

Personalised birthday cards

Cartes d'anniversaire personnalisées
Tarjetas de cumpleaños personalizadas


Birthday cards with animals, for kids! Here, with elephants.
Cartes d'anniversaire avec des animaux, pour enfants! Ici, avec des éléphants.
Tarjetas de cumpleaños con animales, para niños! Aquí, con elefantes.




































Approx. size A6




Sometimes it is good to be original!
Personalised birthday card, in this example with picture, for a very special occasion.

Parfois c'est cool d'être original!
Carte d'anniversaire personnalisée, ici avec une photo, pour une occasion très spéciale.

A veces hay que ser original!
Tarjeta de cumpleaños personalizada, en este ejemplo con foto, para una ocasión muy especial!







Card cover (back and front), folded size A6, total size A5



 Card interior, folded size A6

Friday, November 28, 2014

Cartes de Voeux

Greeting Cards, Tarjetas de Felicitación


Dessin de cartes de voeux, pour ce Noël, anniversaires ou tout autre événement que vous vous imaginez! Souhaitant plein de musique pour la nouvelle année! Vendues en France cette saison par l'Echo du Reculet. Elles seront vendues comme affiches (sur demande) pendant le Marché de Noel de Thoiry le 7 décembre.

Designing greeting cards, for this Christmas, birthdays, or any other reason you can imagine! Wishing lots of music for this new year! Being sold in France this season by the Echo du Reculet. They will also be sold as poster (by request) in the Christmas Market in Thoiry December 7th.

Diseño de tarjetas de felicitación, para estas Navidades, cumpleaños, o cualquier otro motivo que os podáis imaginar! Deseando mucha música para el próximo año! Vendidas en Francia esta temporada por l'Echo du Reculet. También vendidos en formato póster (bajo encargo) en el Mercado de Navidad de Thoiry el 7 de diciembre.

Cats on the roofs





Clarinettist 



Let's go party together!




Magie




Do you want to dance?




Pour en savoir un peu plus sur déroulement des travaux:

Je mets à continuation une photo de moi avec les dessins originaux. Le travail progresse toujours de la même façon: je commence avec des dessins faites à main. Le trait est toujours propre et claire. Après habituellement je scanne les images. Dependant de l'usage je procède a mettre du couleur à l'image tout de suite, avec des varietés de techniques qui vont du crayon ou marqueurs, au acryliques. Dans ce cas, normalement l'usage est bien determiné et on ne prévoit pas des grands enlargements, par example, pour faire des affiches etc. De fois on veut que l'image est bien versatile, alors je vectorise le dessin original et mets du couleur avec l'ordinateur, o bien à main pour re-vectoriser après. 
Voilà le processus! Il est toujours composé d'une grande variété d'étapes, qui dependent beaucoup de la destination final du travail!



In my studio, with the original drawings (image credit: Fabienne Cléard)


To know a bit more about the work progress:

The picture above shows me in my studio, with the original drawings I made for these cards. Usually, work progresses in the same way. I start with a drawing, always made by hand, with trace always clean and clear. After that I normally scan the images. Depending on the final use of the work I immediately proceed to color the images, with a variety of techniques that range from the use of pencil colors, markers, to acrylic paints. In this case the final destination of the artwork is well defined, and it is not expected that enlargements of the images will be needed, for example, to make posters. There are times however when we want that the images are very versatile, and allow their adaptation to a large variety of uses. Then I vectorise the original drawing with the computer, and paint it with the computer. Or I paint it by hand to vectorise it again afterwards.
So this is the process! It is always composed of many different stages, that depend a lot of the final destination of the artwork!



Sunday, September 21, 2014







Compromiso

Engagement



Cubierta tarjeta felicitación matrimonio
Cover page for a marriage card







   Foto de la tarjeta montada
   Picture of finished card




Thursday, August 21, 2014

El rugido del tigre

The roar of the tiger


Por un mundo mejor!
For a better world!


Thursday, June 5, 2014

Va de árboles

This is about trees

Porque los árboles dan vida. 
Quién no tiene un árbol predilecto?
Because trees give life
Who hasn't got a favourite tree?

El árbol simboliza la unión y la fuerza, la vida, la esperanza, las raíces, la tierra. Construyamos árboles fuertes y poderosos, dejemos vivir a los que ya existen.
Trees symbolise union and strength, life, hope, roots, earth.
Let's build strong and powerful trees, and let's let live the already existing ones.



El árbol da sombra en un día de sol, el viento mece sus hojas y escuchamos su música, nos acompaña durante esa siesta en un día de verano, o en nuestra misma cama, si lo pintamos en la pared
The tree gives us shadow in a sunny day, wind rocks its leaves and we can hear its music, it gives us company in that nap in a summer day, or in our own bed, if we paint a tree in the wall