I’m kicking off 2020 with probably the most ambitious challenge I ever took on – 366 Days of Illustration Challenge. Each day of each month, I’m going to share one flat design illustration. I have so many unseen designs to share & so many new ideas running around in my head. Let’s do this!
In this post, I’m going to share all vector illustrations I did for the first month, so January. I utilized my brand colours for all the vectors for day 1 to day 31. The general theme was workspace, brand & web design and business. All of the illustrations were drawn in Adobe Illustrator*. All right, without further due, let’s dive in shall we?!
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366 DAYS OF ILLUSTRATION CHALLENGE - JANUARY
Day 1 - Day 31 - vector illustrations in flat design style
If you can’t wait to see all of the illustrations from January, watch a video below:
Day 1 - Laptop with fireworks & plants
2020 illustration of my laptop with fireworks (or millions of my thoughts !?️) and plants. Have you noticed my mint leaf icon hidden there?
Day 2 - Succulent
As a tribute to neglected succulent who “died” suddenly 😂 Now I know better – I have both artificial and real plants in my office. So if a real one wither, I’m still surrounded by nature #lifehack
Day 3 - Brand Board
An illustrated icon representing the brand board, both included in my brand design and brand & website design packages
Day 4 - Favourite office supplies
The collage featuring my office essentials:
- Sticky notes
- Pencil
- Large tea mug
- Paper clips
- Notebook
- Foldback/Binder clips
- Pen holder
- In-ear headphones
- Mobile phone
Day 5 - Brand Design Questionnaire
The icon symbolizing the brand design or brand & website design questionnaire. This is the first step that my clients take after they booked the design package. The brand questionnaire includes questions about their business, brand, target audience, style preferences.
Day 6 - Flat desk scene
Tech + stationery + plants = 💚
Day 7 - Sunglasses
My fav sunglasses. Can’t leave the house without them
Day 8 - Invoice + Green Tea scene
Who doesn’t love receiving an invoice from clients?! Let’s celebrate that with delicious green tea
Day 9 - Booking design package
A quick icon presentation on how to book my design packages in three simple steps:
Step 1: Inquire
Fill the design inquiry form to get in touch about your brand design or brand & WordPress website design project
Step 2: The Chat
After your inquiry, we’ll discuss more details, timeframe and more!
Step 3: Book
Once we decide to move forward you’ll receive contract & invoice for the 25% deposit to secure your spot in my projects calendar. Then we’ll work together! 😉
Day 10 - Workspace illustration
Illustration of designer’s workspace including:
- Office chair
- Laptop
- Desk lamp
- Mug
- Pencil pot
- Desk
- + Wall art gallery & clock in the background
Day 11 - A Logo design icon
Heart-shaped logo representing the logo design. Why heart? Because I love to design 💚I use this icon for both my design packages
Day 12 - Colouring pencils
Colouring pencils, perfect for anti-stress colouring books for adults
Day 13 - WordPress website design icon
An icon portraying the WordPress website design. In my brand & website design package, I team up with my clients to create a self-hosted WordPress website & brand identity with marketing materials
Day 14 - Hand holding a phone
First attempt to draw hands in flat design style🙈😳 Hand holding a mobile phone, while viewing a website. By the way, I use this phone, as an icon representing mobile-responsive websites which I build for my clients
Day 15 - Custom code & CSS styling icon
Whenever I design WordPress websites, I add a custom code & CSS styling to make them one-of-a-kind and fully customised to my client’s blog & business. Here’s an icon representing the custom code
Day 16 - Pantone chips
Single Pantone chips/swatches illustration
Day 17 - Brand collateral items icon
I use this icon all over my site to represent the five brand collaterals included in my design packages. What are brand collaterals – marketing materials such as social media graphics or printed stationery, matching the brand identity (which I design first)
Day 18 - Woman with plants
An avatar of one of my brand design clients with plants in the background. A few years ago, I came up with an idea to draw my client’s avatars instead of using their photos alongside their feedback. See the clients avatars in the action:
Day 19 - Notebooks & Book
I illustrated my current positive-thoughts binder-notebook, then the spiral notebook which you may recognize from day 4 & 6 and a book
Day 20 - Online Shopping or E-commerce Website Design
I couldn’t decide if I should call this illustration online shopping or building an online shop website, so I gave it two titles 🤷 Same with the hand shared on day 14, this was my first serious attempt to draw characters in flat design. And of course, I wouldn’t be myself if I didn’t include plants in the background
Day 21 - Daily positive-thoughts notebook
Remember the positive-thoughts binder-notebook from day 19? Here you can see it in more detail, together with glasses (illustrated based on my husband’s eyeglasses!)and some paper clips & hands (drawn based on a photo of my hands)
Day 22 - Email signup form icon
An icon which I use on my site, to represent the email marketing integration with email list sign up form design
Day 23 - Website pages design icon
An icon illustrating the design of website pages. In my brand & web design package, there are five five website pages (e.g. Home, About, Contact, Blog, Portfolio) included.
Day 24 - Pens & Pencil
I love to draw my actual art supplies from the pencil pot on my desk
Day 25 - Pantone swatch/colour palette icon
Pantone swatch icon to represent a colour palette
Day 26 - Tech gadgets
Different tech gadgets:
- Smartphone
- In-ear headphones
- Tablet
- Wireless mouse
- Wireless keyboard
Day 27 - Living room scene with chest of drawers and plants
Living room scene showcasing a chest of drawers, mirror, rug, candles and plants
Day 28 - Photos
Inspired by holidays photos & my previous design challenge
Day 29 - MintSwift Blog icon
The icon for my blog about branding, design, tech tutorials, my portfolio (brand & web design case studies), WordPress + blog & business tips
Day 30 - Typing on a keyboard with office supplies
A top view scene with hands typing on a wireless keyboard, together with a tablet, a mug with water, binder clips, sticky notes, pencil & eraser
Day 31 - Brand & Web Designer + Illustrator - autoportrait
I wanted to wrap up the first month of my whole-year illustration challenge by showcasing the avatar of myself alongside some of the things that are on my designer’s mind all day long: client emails, colour palettes, Adobe Illustrator’s* pen tool, ideas, typography & logo design.
One of my most important New Year’s resolutions for 2020 is to design every day, hence this challenge. Thanks for all your support it means so much to me!
Which of January’s Illustration was your favourite? 😉
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