Save The Date

Did you know that when folk decide to get married, they send out 'save the date' cards? I was wrangled by one of my friends to make her save the date cards and lemme tell you, it was a harrowing, amazing, terrible, wonderful and super fun growing experience. The cool thing is that they had In-n-Out cater their wedding which was sock-hop themed, so I got to draw the restaurant in there and truss them up in appropriate garb. What's one of those old-fangled terms they used back in the day. It was swell!

The couple was actually the easiest part of this piece. It was the background that killed me. I tried something on a whim with the bushes using a pattern of leaves from a fabric print and manipulated the shape and angle in photoshop which I think, made for an interesting effect. Haha, yes, only with an artist will you hear them say, "really proud of leaves!" I took way too many risks, executed crazy ideas and experimented with this, but I'm just stoked it not only came together, but the recipients loved it.