Design a greeting card
Another year has gone by and a New Year is born. The New Year is
celebrated by children and adults around the world with many forms of
entertainment. Some send their goodwill thoughts across to family and
friends via e-mail or greeting cards.
There are a variety of greeting cards available in the market today
with beautiful designs, sceneries and wonderful messages of goodwill.
The cards in the market are very expensive and it has become a multi
million dollar business throughout the world. In today's lesson I will
show you how to design your own New Year card to send to your relatives,
friends and loved ones, even though it is almost two weeks into 2013.
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Figure 1 |
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Figure 2 |
First of all choose a suitable drawing paper; a medium grain drawing
paper which will absorb the water colours. On a glossy art paper the
paint will run all over. Therefore choose a rough surface drawing paper
where the paint will stick and dry easily. Most commonly used drawing
paper to paint with water colours is Bond Kent or Whatman paper (250
grams) or (200 grams) as pointed out in my last lesson.
You may take an A4 size thick drawing paper and fold it into two and
cut the paper from the centre where you will get a half sheet which is
equal to eight inches in height and six inches in width.
Then fold it again in two and then you will arrive at a size suitable
for a greeting card. The dimension will be 5 1/2 inches in height and 4
inches in width.
An outline sketch of a greeting card is shown in Figure 1 as an
example. You may draw whatever design or any object or scenery you wish
on the front cover of the folded card. Remember to do a light pencil
drawing as a basic sketch and then start colouring. Figure 2 shows a
completed card in colour. The message could be written inside on the
right hand side. I have used a simple picture of a vase of flowers for a
beginner, done using flat colours. For a child the best way to apply
colours is to use flat colours.
You will observe how I have used different colours. The leaves are
done in green, petals in yellow with red applied at the centre of the
flower. There are many shade of colours that could be used when painting
flowers but to begin , I have shown only flat colours. When drawing the
flower pot, draw the centre line as shown in dots on Figure 1 and trace
the half side of the pot shown on the right on to the left to get a
complete accurate sketch of the pot. To make the card more attractive I
have used an all over pattern using flowers and leaves (as shown on Fig
1 and 2). As you improve your drawing, I will guide you to use shading
in future drawings.
Making your own greeting card is better than buying one from the
shop. A greeting card created by you will make you proud and happy. So,
learn how to make greeting cards and send them to your loved ones and
friends. |
