So I took the Lost Angeleno illustration away for the time being (for further improvements from my last post!) and decided to replace it with this one…
I had already designed the heart illustration for my Graphically Pink page but the idea sprung from a daft drawing a work colleague sharpie penned on my arm at work the other night, a heart tattoo with “Mom” drawn inside.
Thanks Matt! 😛
It made me jokingly think to myself if I had a tattoo for every guy I invested feelings in who had wasted my time and broken my heart I would have them halfway down my arm! I liked this idea for my design to show the vulnerability again; to show how I wear my heart on my sleeve and to show the strength in the weakness that regardless of the hurt… you carry on. I started messing around with the idea and drew out some random scribbles next to the heart with crosses through them to represent mens names… obviously I want the names to be faded and unrecognisable. I then decided to carry on the theme from postcard 1 with the drips of lipstick and include this bleeding from the heart. One of my earliest doodles which I still have is from when I was 14/15 years old and it was a broken heart with the words “Stupid cupid who needs love?” written around it. I have included part of this on my design also. I felt I needed to add this to show the “unlucky in love” factor rather than the fact it might just look like I just get through a list of men!
I also printed out rough versions of both the postcards so far and laid them out together to see if they worked and to see what would further need improving. I put post-its on the areas I wanted to add changes to and then carried out these changes on Illustrator. A few of the changes was to add a few further drips which would carry on from each other over the postcards, to improve the hand and then I drew on the heart idea illustration idea.
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