7 Hours of Illustrator!

Labels: , , , - Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Well I've had a busy day today.  My Mum passed away last October and there has been, sadly, a backlog at the stonemasons, so we've had to wait a long time. I did the design for it back in December but due to lack of communication from them of the tech specs needed I've had to do a fair bit of tweaking, I just wish I'd got the answers to my questions way back when.  Anyhoo, hopefully after spending 7 hours glued to Illustrator I've sorted it, but I've said that before so who knows. 


I normally work on large scale things at a quarter scale but thought it would be better in this instance to work 1:1 so that I could measure and work things out, I'm so glad I did as I was able to show him the artwork on my macbook and measure it at the same time as showing the mason.


The problem was the text, I've used a rather fancy script font as Mum was a brilliant copperplate & calligraphy artist, the swirls from the text possibly wasn't thick enough to hold the gold for a number of years.  They normally guarantee for 20 years but he wasn't feeling confident about doing that, hence the amends.


Jx

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