It's spooky season, it's pumpkin spice season, and what would be more fun than a punny PSL design for a coffee tumbler? Maybe one which its entire identity came about because I read a soap bottle wrong?
So I was using the restroom in my favorite little shop when I saw what I thought was a marshmallow "spite" fragrance on this spooky black soap bottle. Naturally, my brain was like "PUMPKIN SPITE PUMPKIN SPITE!" demanding that it be brought to reality. I could instantly visualize exactly what this guy would look like and I could not let it go until it was done.
I use Vectornator to do probably 85% of my designs. I will from time to time need to finish something on Photoshop, and there are a few designs that I have needed Photoshop for the whole thing because of the tools and filters I needed access to.
For designs like this on Vectornator, you really need to work on layer management. If you are new like I was when I first started doing designs, I would usually throw caution to the wind on my layer management and it would always give me some headache. In general, and I will do another detailed post on this in the future, I find it easiest to do my linework and outlines first in a layer or two and then create under layers to fill in. I can kind of work down in to the design and build layers moving further away from my lines. So for this guy, the line work is a top layer, the orange pumpkin fill is a layer under that, the orange/gold mouth and eye base actually was done next, and then I put layers ranked above that one but under the others to finish out the eyes.
The single most important reason for layer management is if you want to change something, it is easier to lock all the other layers down so you don't create ten more messes trying to fix one.
I need that advice for my life...
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