Making of Valentines Day card's is something I have done every year, I have always made them for free and up until this Feb I had always hand made them, this is mostly down to me wanting to make them for people who don't have other halves as it's a hard time of year.
However this year when I announced to my family and friends that my Valentines Card making services were open, I got asked by 2 girls on my facebook if I could make cards for their boyfriends and better yet, they wanted to pay for them!
It definitely added pressure as I now was making them for someone who wasn't close to me and I couldn't just wing it.
Both girls were happy for me to have creative control, but both had specifics they wanted from the card. The first girl Verity wanted a card that embraced their love of food and adventure, she also requested that my characters me as close to them as possible.
For this to happen I was sent photos of them both and i found it pretty hard to get their personalities across in my style, hard but not impossible. After I had cracked that, the rest was reasonably easy. She sent me a list of foods they loved and left me to set the scene.
I decided on cute/cheesy phrase "lifes a picnic with you" because although it was a little cheesy it wasn't a play on the word love and it didn't necessarily scream valentines day (she didn't want mushy).
I was fairly pleased with that card although I do wish I'd practiced more figure drawing before drawing the couple as I had to redraw them so much during the colouring.
The second card I had greater creative control over, the client Milli wanted something that involved her boyfriends love for batman and movies and her love for unicorns. She also mentioned that she was a florist and that they both loved superhero films. This lead me to initially drawing them both as their own super heros. I sent this draft over before colouring and she was pleased with the faces etc but felt that it was a little too sexy for her and emphasised that her boyfriend would prefer something with something a little silly involved. I took this on board and changed their superhero costumes to onsies.
I was really pleased with this card because I think the colours worked well and the client was really pleased also.
I had never thought about creating cards professionally or for money at all before but I really enjoyed the process so it's something I'm thinking about doing more in the future.
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