Creative Process: 2013 Doodle Birds Mini Calendar

 After the roughs were done, I sketched each one out and painted them on one piece of watercolor paper with my trusty watercolors. I don’t know why but I always draw and paint really small, I wouldn’t be good at large pieces of art at all. Once it was dry, I scanned, cleaned and adjusted colors with Photoshop…another favorite program.

Then I opened Adobe Illustrator to design a mini calendar template and placed all the paintings in the right months and went looking for the perfect typeface. This took me a while! I love so many typefaces so it was a hard decision. I finally decided on this one, I’m very happy with it.  Then I printed each page out on normal print paper and folded them to see if the margins were right. After 3 times (thank goodness I used the little printer for that) it looked good so I printed using The Printer, Epson Stylus Photo R3000. Yeehaw! We have a pretty mini calendar.

I love the way it turned out!! I’d love to show you the whole thing but…after printing one page to make sure it was good, I got side-tracked and updated my Mac, now I can’t print wirelessly at all. I have to buy a cord until I get the wireless figured out. Bummer!

What do you think about seeing the creative process? Do you love it too?