Contact with the postcard company

I found the postcard in the bookstore and I really love the texture on the card. So I contact with the company name nineteenseventythree which is own of this postcard and ask them that what is the paper. They are so kind and give me the name of paper. It is name Brampton Feltmark. After that I trying to find it online and I found that there is only 300 gsm on the Brampton Feltmark. If I print the postcard, the print shop told me that I can use the paper not thick than 250 gsm. So, I cannot use the Brampton Feltmark on my work. But no worry, I found the similar paper which is name Tintoretto Felt, the texture is the same as Brampton Feltmark but it is only 250 gsm. How lucky I am. :)

1973 company

 

 The postcard of 1973.

Using a marker pen

Today I tried to use a marker pen on the illustration but it did not look good because the elements are not clear.

The left is original and the right is from using marker pen.

The sketch of my work before I use marker pen

All of sketch

Here is the sketch of my project. Almost finish the sketch process. :)

LAI THAI

Here is the example of publications in Thailand that use Lai Thai (Thai elements) elements incorporating gold. On my project I want to use gold but it is very special and I have talked with a print company and they said they cannot do it for me. So, I change from gold to yellow because it looks similar.

Start to make a postcard book

I started to sketch all 20 of the postcards. Here are some examples. As you can see that I use some Thai elements called LAI THAI or LAI KRANOK on it. In each place, there are a lot of specific and interesting things. I drew some of the stuff on display

Work in progress

Today I have a class for working in progress. I have shown my project to my all of my classmates. They suggest changing some colours because they like a colourful image but this palette looks old fashioned, and they want me to put some Thai style on it as well.

WORK IN PROGRESS

 Some of my work

Last tutorial

Today is the last tutorial of my final module. Time flies so fast. The style of my project is looking stronger but my supervisor advised me to think about the scale of the illustrations. About the MA Exposition, we discuss that it will be better and more interesting if I can provide something like cards to ask people to comment or share their experiences with my booth. So, I will provide like a luggage tag and people can comment and then hang it on my booth.