Day To Day: The Calendar

Hello again to the followers of my blog.This time's post will be the making of Eid ul-Fitr's Calendar.Here is the description words before we proceed to the designing process.

Eid ul-Fitr,A New Day With A New Hope.On this day,it marks the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan.Muslims are encouraged to dress in their best clothes, new if possible, and to attend a special Eid prayer that is performed in congregation at mosques.

IDEATION OF THE DESIGN

The purpose the calendar being made is to show the celebration of Eid ul-Fitr(arabic).Eid ul-Fitr commemorates the end of the month of Ramadan.Muslims are encouraged to dress in their best clothes, new if possible,that would be the inspiration of the calendar's design and also the reason why i play around with the colors in the calendar.All Muslim's wear a colorful clothes on the day.I use pelita as the main object to symbolise the day of Eid ul-Fitr.Plus,we only use the when celebrating Eid ul-Fitr.

DESIGN OF THE PICTURE

This is the sketch I've made before proceeding my artwork to illustrator.

CALENDAR IN THE MAKING OF:STEP ONE

For the first stage,i open a new document of 31x52cm in size.Next,i select the gradient panel and drag the colors from the pallete.I select the rectangle tool to fit the lower part of the calendar and the color gradient willl fill out the rectangle's inner part.

CALENDAR IN THE MAKING OF:STEP TWO

I make a same method by creating another rectangle with a different color gradient.That will fit the upper part of the calendar.

CALENDAR IN THE MAKING OF:STEP THREE

By refering to the chosen festive's month,I start makin those days of the month by using text tool.I took lots of time arranging those days as we have not been thought yet about the object's compositioning.So,i decide to make the text in 20pt in size so it will be easier for me to arrange it.Next i make the numbers smaller by using transform tool and put it on the calendar's lower part.

CALENDAR IN THE MAKING OF:STEP FOUR

Next,I type out the days in a week and later i use the filter effect,the outer glow.Filter>Stylize>Outer Glow.

CALENDAR IN THE MAKING OF:STEP FIVE

I put the month the festival fall into,month of September.

CALENDAR IN THE MAKING OF:STEP SIX

The hardest part,at first,I try to use the pen tool to make the 'pelita' looks really in shape.After few times of failure,I decide to use the brush tool and I think it's suit to the calendar.I draw the 'pelita' by using different color of strokes.The strokes size is 7pt.

CALENDAR IN THE MAKING OF:STEP SEVEN

I smallize the 'pelita' and later put it on the calendar.I create few circles around the 'pelita' using eclipse tool.

CALENDAR IN THE MAKING OF:STEP EIGHT

This is the shape which i refer to the image I've uploaded.It's a gemoetry shape in Islamic's Architecture.I create a shape using rectangle tool and later duplicate and arrange it vertically.I merge it into one layer and duplicate those layers and resize it few times.

CALENDAR IN THE MAKING OF:STEP NINE

I get all the stuff well positioned.The layers is up to 69 and it's quite messy so I get those layers in a group to make it well organized.

CALENDAR IN THE MAKING OF:FINAL STEP