Design Document

This is my work for creating my design document and as I want to take my time in making it look nice, I think I should document my work process to prove how much time I have taken to do it.

I knew I wanted to have a document that looked girly, and princess like so I looked up some girly curls and frames:

Stock Vector (2012) Cute Girly Frame. Depositphotos Available at <http://images.search.conduit.com/ImagePreview/?q=girly%20frames&ctid=CT2790392&searchsource=49&start=0&pos=6> Accessed 4th November 2012

candycatdesigns (2012) Cute Girly Frames Vector. VectorStock. Available at <http://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/cute-girly-frames-vector-734772> Accessed 4th November 2012

I also was very interested in some of the barbie film designs:

And so I started to look into my document look.

These are some fonts I looked at:

One Starry Night (2011) dafont Available at <http://www.dafont.com/one-starry-night.font?fpp=50> Accessed 4th November 2012

Brushes:

thedork (2011) Disney Princess. Brusheezy Available at <http://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/21294-disney-princess> Accessed 4th November 2012

These are some quick links I had to note down for myself.

http://dark-zeblock.deviantart.com/art/PS-Ribbon-Brushes-274201530

http://eterea86.deviantart.com/art/SS-Frame-Corner-Brushes-97850974 

http://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/13400-1000-stars

http://lostandtaken.com/blog/?currentPage=5

My document has taken my forms and shapes starting off looking a little like barbie in the nutcracker:

 Barbie in the Nutcracker (2010) Fanpop Available at <http://www.fanpop.com/spots/barbie-in-the-nutcracker/images/13479448/title/barbie-nutcracker-photo> Accessed 12th November 2012

Mine started off looking like this:

However I felt is wasn't polished enough so I set off in a different direction.

Which is when I came across this, I liked that is was quite stylish yet still seemed girly and princess themed to me:

FidgetResources (2009) Art Nouveau Brushes Brush Pattern Available at <http://www.brushpattern.com/index.php?controller=brushes&action=brush&id=86> Accessed 12th November 2012

Which I then tried to replicate:

With this I found I didn't, firstly like that it was portrait as my project is an environment piece I figured a landscape design document would be more effective. And secondly this was too grown-up for my liking as I am creating a child's scene.

And so again I set off to find more inspiration.

I knew I wanted it to look princess like, so I looked at barbie, princess and the pauper:

Rosepixie (2009) Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper: Thoughts. Katies Book Blog Available at <http://www.pixiepalace.com/bookblog/2009/01/29/barbie-as-the-princess-and-the-pauper-thoughts/> Accessed 12th November 2012

This had strong frames and curly fonts with easy prints or stickers of butterflies and such, and so I decided to try this out, and after some time came out with something looking like this:

Though I still felt this wasn't right, looking a little cheap and unfinished, so I took what I liked in this. Being the bold names and a lot of the sparkles and the crown stamp. 

I enhanced all of these, added more sparkle and shine and came up with a design:

Now I knew I was getting on track and I loved this new design, but again felt it needed more tweaking. SO adding even more shine and sparkle, some stars and a better ribbon. I finally came up with my idea:

This I am extremely happy with, and shall be my theme throughout the rest of the document, which is something I need to create next.