Visual Storytelling

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 Elise Tomlinson Herbert Glacier- Oil on Canvas  Fireweed over Mt Jumbo - Oil on Canvas  Elise Tomlinson has inspired my art when I'm drawing scenery. Her simplistic style using vibrant colours depicts the beautiful atmosphere of Alaska. As she has lived there since she was young you can tell in her work that are both abstract and still represent the lovely nature that Alaska has. What inspired me do something similar was her artwork "Fireweed over Mt Jumbo". As I found it difficult to draw the flowers and plants realistic this piece really spoke to me and inspired me to try and make my art more abstract with clear outlines. My response to this piece of art is below.  It is clear in this piece that I was inspired by the ambiguous nature of Tomlinson's work and although I used more muted tones and colours I still kept intact the abstract ideology of her work. I don't think my work replicates hers but I wanted to make my response using my own style.  @Artopium_bon...

SWOT Marketing This is Me

 Promoting my Etsy on my Social media I have been posting my Christmas card designs on Instagram while updating everyone when the launches of them was. I did this on both instagram and facebook. This was so that both my instagram followers and my family and friends would share to people I might not know or only have mutual friends with. I also put my Etsy shop link in my bio on instagram and on the post on facebook. 

For my prints I wanted to do 4 prints, two in the day and two at night showing the northern lights. For this first illustration I wanted to use a wolf instead of a St Bernard as the character in this print because its a popular animal and I think more people would be more inclined to buy it. I used cool toned palette for the majority of this so thats its neutral and both men and women would be interested in purchasing in. I wanted to make the mountains exaggerated so that the print is interesting to look at.  For this print I wanted to show the northern lights from the perspective of the Buck in Call of the Wild. This is a reference to a couple of quotes in the book and I think moving forward I will attempt to add quotes into the illustrations. This could be a good marketing tactic so that people who like the book and the quotes will search them up in Etsy and find my designs.  A couple of quotes I might use; But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer mid...

Christmas Card Product Photos For these photos I wanted to make sure the lighting was good enough and have snowflakes decorating it to make the photo grab the Etsy shoppers attention. I made sure the exposure should be high to show all o the colours in the card.  Listing Descriptions for each card  I have listed them as individual and as a pack of 4. I also added in my first drawing of St Bernard to see if it would be popular. It has had a few sales and people interested, however, I think the pack of 4 Christmas Greetings cards have been the most successful. 64 people have viewed it, theres been 10 orders and 13 people have it in their basket.  Out of all of the individual cards on my shop the most popular has been the Northern Lights Christmas card. This has got 33 views and 2 orders. Next would be the Husky sleigh ride with 13 views and 2 orders.  Descriptions and type of product  Pack of 4