home assignment 5: Love is in the air!

In this week's assignment, we are to develop a card on the theme of love. Below are my the brainstormed thumbnails:

Here is my card designed:

I chose the second design because I wanted to portray the feeling of " First Love". The title of the card reads "showers of love", and the picture shows a boy and a girl kissing while they are holding the umbrella. The boy is electrified as shown by his strand of hair, and has even developed wings, which symbolizes him floating in the bliss of love. Pastel colors, also known as good smelling colors are adopted to accentuate the sweetness and in that the simplicity of love. The girl has warm colors while the boy has cool colors. Pink indicates love, red indicates passion, green indicates the cheerfulness and vigour while blue indicates the divine love.

In the background, I used a faded pink heart which expands like a drop of water. Comments were that the heart was too elongated and it gives the impression of two mountains behind the main objects. Also, some felt that there were too few smaller hearts.

Below is my edited version:

(Card exterior)

(Card interior)

I have made the faded pink heart shorter and added more small and more defined hearts. I also created an interior of the card.