I'm feeling a little breakthrough with my quest nourishing my curious creative soul. I am now drawing quicker, a little less pensive, a little less tentative with my strokes. I am working hard to match what's in my head, to let curiosities get the best of me, to reclaim some skills (yo) and to let discoveries pan out to completion. Part of this of course is having a similarly, amazingly, naturally, creative husband whom to share a quest with. A little sappy, yes.

So on a whim, after taking a little breather on a drawing, I tried LiveSurface. LiveSurface is pretty much this application that you can use that goes with Photoshop and Illustrator to help create that professional looking mock up. And it considers lighting, shadowing, and perspective giving that realistic look. I played with vanishing points, gradient overlay, and some embossing to use on a typography design that I did (which you can better see on the second box). Ignore random words on the box, I picked some from the many jumbled words in my head that very minute.

I tried 1. going for shiny black foil (looks more like felt?) 2. no techniques, just placement 3. mirrored foil 4. pop up card look ... Do you get that feel when you look at it? How can I make it better? Well goodnight!