Jahzel Misner - Designer

New card design for Something Green. Drawing in this style requires a lot of patience and many breaks to keep from getting sloppy. This is the 2nd time I’ve drawn in this style (see Henna card). This time around I had a plan. During Henna I was too anxious about getting all the details and swoops in that I neglected the composition. The result was an un-anchored layout (it feels floaty). With Mehndi, I stuck to basic outlines until I was happy with the composition and white space balance. Lesson learned.

I’ve been planning this card for a while, but I have been delaying it because I wasn’t sure I could pull off this style. I grabbed some books from the library and just looked at the amazing paintings from the Art Treasures of Seikado collection. Simply amazing stuff… So here’s another design for Something Green, it’s the first card I painted using Painter.

A wedding card I designed for Something Green. Thank you Sonia for helping me design the concept, you’re awesome!

I went through lots of variations for this card in my attempts to get the right balance. It has a lot of detail and colours, to the point of almost chaos. I ended up simplifying the bride to bring the focus back to the carriage, and adding deeper earth tones to increase depth.

Here I go again. Thought this logo design is for my company Something Green, I find designing for myself just as challenging as designing for someone else. For the first set I am playing with concepts that communicate eco-friendly and weddings.