birthday card sample

Yup... i choose this birthday card sample....

Inanga

Inanga it's like a guitar,basically it is our traditional guitar.
It is made from a piece of wood carved with a shallow bowl and decorated with small star and slits the pierce the bowl completely. On either end notches are carved. A single fibre or gut string is then woven back and forth across the instrument to form up to eight strings. Usually the instrument is approximately a metre (yard) in length and is either held on its side on the groud or in the player’s lap and is plucked by both hands. It is a very quiet instrument and it is often used to accompany singing is a whispered voice..to tell a story and it's really amazing.....
from: http://www.asza.com/iinanga.shtml

Country: Burundi

Alright,take a look on the sketch of my birthday card....does it look like "a deja vu" hope not!!if you don't know what ''deja vu'' means that's your problem i'm not a dictionary lol enjoy.....hihi

Birthday

Hi everyone....Hi sir..............I'm from a nice country called Burundi which has a very rich culture but birthdays are not in our culture.we started to celebrate birthdays after the colonization in 1962.Anyway what i'm trying to explain is that the way we celebrate birthdays...it's exactly the same as everywhere in the world people celebrate it .hihi so what i will is do that..i will try to design a joyful,happy..birthday card following the samples as it is required.

ok guys that was my introduction ...right now im going the sketch of my birthday card...don't be to excited is not big deal!!hahahah

Tutorial class ...my landscape...

My Calendar

Designing my calendar the first thing i did, i choose the month (July), because it was in July that we had our Independence. It was exactly 1st JULY 1962 .So it became a very important date that every Burundian have to remember. Designing the calendar i used our national colors (Red, green and White).what i tried to express/ say on my calendar is happiness; it’s a wonderful day for every Burundian. It’s the dawn of a new life, new purpose. It’s a celebration of a new beginning, as u can see on the sketch below:

Adobe Illustrator

- The first thing i did i opened a new file (52 cm x 31 cm).

- I drew 2 squares. One of the squares i colored in black using the swatches and the other one i left it in white. see image below

- i drew some hills using the pen tool then i painted them in green. The reason why i put hills in my calendar is that 80% of my country Burundi is composed by Hills that’s it also called the one thousand and one hills country.

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- I filled the background with a gradient using orange yellow and white just to show that it’s the dawn or sunrise.

- I wrote using the Type Tool the days of the month in the black square that i drew before. I used Rockwell Extra Bolt as the font then i circled our national day which is the 1^st of AUG with a red circle using the Ellipse Tool.

- I drew the emblem of Burundi. I used the pen tool to draw copying the one i downloaded from Google.see link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Blason_du_Burundi.svg/328px-Blason_du_Burundi.svg.png

- I drew two stars behind the emblem using the Star Tool after that i applied some effects to the stars(3D.....extrude & bevel option).i painted the sides of the stars in red ,green and white which are the national colours of Burundi. I applied some effects to the stars (stylize....Outer Glow). The reason why putted stars in my calendar is that it says victory, celebration ect.

- I drew many stars around the emblem for the same reason, to show happiness and victory. i applied also an effect(stylize....Outer Glow) on some of the stars.

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So what i wanted to do is that i wanted to make a very simple calendar using simple tools and also that shows clearly what i want. So that’s all. this was the steps of how i did my calendar using Adobe Illustrator.