Hello guys! I just want to share my entry to "The State of the Sndbox Monthly Thumbnail Competition #9". And again, I want to thank @sndbox for this amazing opportunity they had given to every artist all over the world to join and participate this amazing contest to showcase the talent we have. Moving on, the inspiration of this work is the Season where most Filipinos have been waiting for! Especially to every students here, long nap! long vacation, no classes, no assignments, you're right! It's "Summer Time" here in Philippines! But before anything else, let me first share my work

Here it is!

"Summer Fever"

Everyone is pretty much excited about every summer escapade they had planned, it's perfect time to relax and to reunite with loved ones, relative, friends that had not seen for long while. Also, everyone is very excited to show the product of their hard work and the time they've spent hitting the gym. Now it's their best moment to show their perfect beach body they want the whole world to see and appreciate! And right now I am expecting my newsfeed to be filled with selfie, groufie, and amazing photos taken from different experiences and adventures.

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That served as a inspiration for me to in conceptualizing my work/entry, I've just tried to make it simple yet at least appealing to the eyes. I've illustrated a shoreline, above it is a work of art, a sand art which is a text, "state of the sndbox" it is required and a must because that's whats our task is all about to make a creative thumbnail for sndbox, if you haven't followed them just search @sandbox or you can just click the word "@sndbox". Along with the sand art is the elements I've illustrated to add more feels and ambiance to the shore, I've added Sea Star, oh wait,

just a short trivia, I've just read it in a legit article, I don't know when was the time I'd read it, but what I've discovered is, "Star Fish" is no longer or not appropriate to describe "Star Fish" is changed to "Sea Star" since according to them "Sea Star" is not a Fish at the first place, and don't have gills, but still, people used to call things what they used to call, so we can't do something with that, anyway no ones gonna get hurt, when people call "Sea Star" a "Starfish".

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Let's move on, I've also added Sea Shells, pebbles, corals, to complete to scenery. I did try my best to control the elements added so that I won't overdo it, and make it look to populated or what. And lastly, the color palette I've used, is of course @sndbox 's color palette which is one of the requirement. What I did with the waves is I've replaced the shades of blue (sea water) to @sndbox 's color palette, and for it looks good, I didn't expect that result. What I love about the color is very refreshing to the eye, like you can watch it all day, without getting disturbed. It give such soothing feeling and lightness to the viewer, credits to @sndbox for choosing these perfect colors to represent them.

So that's all guys! Thanks for Checking my entry, feel free to show your love and support by upvoting my entry, I'm not forcing you but I would really appreciate it, if you do. And as always here's a proof of works by showing the process.

Process

First, I've start illustrating from a paper, when I conceptualize, I always do it with a paper or scratch, so that I can easily make amendments or revisions in order for my work to be improved. You can also do that too.

After that, I've imported to Adobe Illustrator CC, I've just took a picture of my draft on my phone, sending it via bluetooth

I've started tracing using pentool

Tracing every element in the draft.

Tip: You can always, unhide the layer of your reference so that you can see your progress and for you to see what going tracing your reference. In that way, you can also be encouraged in doing your work, of course, you can slowly see the everything is coming to life.

After I'm done tracing everything, I've started adding color to my work (using @sndbox color palette)

Then, I start with adding shadows (to give depth)

Adding shadow to every element

And after I'm done adding shadows, I've started adding highlights to make it more livelier

And one thing I've enjoyed in Illustrating, is adding colorful pebbles ( logo's color) to @sndbox 's logo. I don't know but, it gives me the wonderful feeling of childhood when I was kid having fond of collecting picking pebbles, segregating them to the color of their own.

And ready to save (I've forgot to make a screenshot, I've imported my unfinished work to Photoshop CC, just to add a vignette, but just a minor additions)

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