Posted 10 months ago

So now that people are starting to receive them… let’s talk about the wedding invites I did for Melissa and myself.

Digitally printed in full colour on 340gsm card, these are possibly the current peak of my design portfolio (don’t you love it when you get to save the best for yourself?). I spent several (as in more than 6) months on the illustrations for this, and a good portion of that is for the internal image.

Originally the image was more tied in to the design, and would have featured the details for the venues, but with a little bit of laziness and some rethinking, we decided to go with a layout that truly shows off the hard work that I put into these babies.

And the response has been amazing. So far I’ve had two people tell me that these are the best wedding invitations they’ve ever seen (hire me), and everyone has spent several minutes looking at the tiny details on the interior illustration. That alone makes me proud.

I’ll be publishing a post with some segments of the interior illustration in the next few days. So if you’re hoping to get a better look, then fear not… and stay tuned! I’ve published full-size sections of the interior illustration. Head to that post to check them out!

Posted 11 months ago

You can also see this in it’s full-size glory.

Today I released the website for our wedding into the world, including this super special little RSVP setup I put together over a few days. I just wanted to share it because I’m a tad proud of how smooth it is.

There’s also some stuff the video doesn’t show: first of all, you can change your mind and redo the process as many times as you want using the same code. Second of all, we instantly get an email to tell us your response and who is coming, so we can make the arrangements!

The invitations will officially go out by the end of next week. If you’re reading this and you don’t get one, then I’m sorry. Maybe next time? Also, weddings are expensive… please cut us some slack. 

Posted 1 year ago

This illustration is another that I’ve done for our wedding invitations: specifically, this one appears on the cover, in a sort of homage to the original posters for the Back to the Future trilogy. I am particularly proud of the colouring and shading with this one: I am by no means a car fanatic, nor am I much good at drawing cars in general, but this one turned out EXACTLY how I wanted it to. All of the line art was hand drawn on a Wacom Cintiq, with the exception of certain parts of the delorean, which were done using line tools in Photoshop. I also used some free textures for the banding around the front bumper and for the stainless steel chassis.

This illustration is another that I’ve done for our wedding invitations: specifically, this one appears on the cover, in a sort of homage to the original posters for the Back to the Future trilogy.

I am particularly proud of the colouring and shading with this one: I am by no means a car fanatic, nor am I much good at drawing cars in general, but this one turned out EXACTLY how I wanted it to.

All of the line art was hand drawn on a Wacom Cintiq, with the exception of certain parts of the delorean, which were done using line tools in Photoshop. I also used some free textures for the banding around the front bumper and for the stainless steel chassis.

Posted 2 years ago

Late last year, I got an email from a super awesome friend of mine. Her wedding was coming up, and her invites were not at all turning out how she’d hoped. She and her beau were planning to have a robot themed wedding, to celebrate the roots of their relationship: they originally met online through the art community deviantART and fostered their relationship almost entirely via the internet, since they both lived on separate continents.

After a few emails back and forth I kicked things off by designing their “Save the Date”, incorporating robot characters representing each of them, their colour scheme, and even a tid bit from one of their favourite shows: Futurama.

Then, following a month or two of massive procrastination on my part, I put together some designs for their actual invites, with robots kissing, some good ol’ dot matrix paper and a few cameos from sci-fi favourites: Zoidberg, Marvin, Bender and R2-D2. Some of those same images were used in their program (not designed by me), and on cupcakes given to guests at the wedding.

They loved the designs, and I was ecstatic to be able to gift this amazing couple with invitations that reflected who they are and what they love. I wish them many happy years together!

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Designer, Illustrator, Developer, Writer, Musician. Total Adventure Time fan and guy who hearts Dinosaur Comics.

All these things describe Jelly, sometimes known as Daniel Farrelly. This is his blog.

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