TUTORIAL

well, now i'll tell you about the tutorial, but this is just simply steps that I did before.

step 1: absulotely we have blank page here.













step2: The first step that we have to do is trace the tiger picture like this. in the first, we can just line it the outline of the tiger. to make it easier, you can also make just the outline. don't fill it with any color.












step 3: if you have finished your outline, you can start to fill the image. I fill with radial gradient yellow and orange color.don't forget to use drop shadow.














step4: then, after that you just trace the skin's pattern of the tiger. you must be careful when you trace on it's face. especially it's eyes. it's difficult to make. then continue with its body and finish it all.














step5: I guess that blur effect can make this tiger looks real, so you can use that effect. even this blur make the image doesn't look clearly but this gaussian blur effect help us to make the tiger realitic














step 6: and give the cloud above the tiger to make it nice.













step 7: then you are supposed to make the 3 circle like this and arrange behind of the tiger. the first circle is dark red, white, and then black. then you must blur the white circle. like this













step 8: you must do with path finder. make sure your pathfinder window is exist on your page. then you must create two circle the then click this pathfinder. watch the picture above













-create circle again inside the circle













-click the second button in the pathfinder. like this. and you can get your circle has a hole













-then, set up the position like this















step 9: this step can be done in the first or the last. if you want to do in the last, you must group your tiger and lock all of what you've done. We want to create the background. look this several picture for the step.

-I play with the gradient. and set the color gradient like in this picture.













- make the rectangle using rectangle tool. and shape it like the picture above by pressing shift+ right click to lock the corner of the shape and do that again to release the lock.













- click the transform













and set like this picture.














-after that. you can set the tranparancy and make it blur using gaussian blur. and make this shapes two times to become like this. the one you can set with more transparancy and blur and another one you can set with little transparancy and little blur also.














- To make crowded, we can put the "root line". make the root line using the same way with the previous line. remember , don't make it blur. and set the position like this














step 10: this is the last step. you must decorate your calendar with china style. you can trace it from the internet or you do by yourself using pen tool.

create the plants to decorate the calendar.and set in to red and transparancy













- write the word "tiger" in chinese word and spread them on the calendar.













- don't forget to write the month, date, and the number of date. then better, you write some quote or exciting word to make your calendar interesting.















- so we hav finished our work. try it.















Thank you

DESCRIPTION

I choose this event because I can write chinese words on it, as we know chinese words is like art word and it can make all easier than I make it christmas , idul fitri, or other events.

First I put the tiger on the center , because it is the image that i want to take. next year is tiger year,thats why I put the word tiger to decorate my calendar. it is not only that word but also I put the cloud above the tiger. and next, i put the number arround it.and the rest images are just a chinese decoration to make all this in china's style. Here the information about my calendar:

- background: talking about chinese new year, we can't go far from the red color. we can find them in many thing. for example when the chinese new year comes we can see red lantern, red envelope, red shirt, and so on. we can find the all decoration in red and yellow too. that' s why I put red to my background and to make it interesting I color it with gradient to yellow color. so it doesn't make it bored thing.

- Tiger : The Sheng xiao (Chinese: 生肖) is 12 animals which are representative of years in some East Asia countries, and the Chinese zodiac is the 12-year cycle of these 12 animals. Each year of the 12-year cycle is named after one of the original 12 animals. Each animal has a different personality and different characteristics. The animal is believed to be the main factor in each person's life that gives them their traits, success and happiness in their lifetime.( www.wikipedia.com ). the 12 animals are tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, pig, rat, ox. and next year will be the tiger. that's why I put the tiger image on the center of my calendar.

-the cloud, when I don't put the cloud the tiger is like lonely and so poor. so, I decide to put a cloud to make the tiger is very holy and it comes from the heaven.

-the image behind of tiger that image I found in many craft actually. i don't know the meaning, but that style looks like helping me to make all these very chinese. I trace it from the chinese craft. it's so interesting for me.

-the image arround craft image. I remember when i'm in indonesia I see some decoration for chinese wedding, so I also put those in my calendar, but I think I make it a little bit different. but that's ok. it's still good

-the white line, I pick this style from the image that i have included from the refrences. the function of the lines is to make it crowded the calendar.

-the shines on the background, I imagine it is sunshine. and the tiger appear from the heaven to the earth.

- and there are word "tiger" in chinese word on the calendar. I make them all transparent so, you can see the word like the one group with the background. however they are not. (actually I can't write and speak chinese. and I ask to my friend to write "tiger" and I put it on this. thanks to my friend)

- I put the nature in the background, because some many chinese art work have the nature thing in that, even you don't know what the plant is.

- and the last.. the word always smile in chinese and english lay on my calendar because I want to make the reader or the person have this calendar will be given happiness everyday and every year. It's based on my friend's mind. thanks to my friends.

- and the word is yellow because chinese doesn't like black color.

REFERENCES

I choose this lay out because this lay out is uncommon for me.
these are images that I take as a references.





link:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0bV_xlFUd__POV4vwYYgI8StHk3jDl6bnPoTOCoogUOcyHselQOJO_ghyphenhyphenjrFz-gQU3dWEpFiBMTgrCxzSQsG-AhClYvRyeO7ALw13IBAI9B16JfmGxKLQpNtOM8l2Nw-MCL6JTttmlRc/s1600-h/strictly-christmas-joyous-noel-advent-calendar.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/136/360552616_e00c3bdc09.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3242/3026434081_3d8a39be8e_o.jpg

http://www.solarnavigator.net/animal_kingdom/animal_images/Tiger_panthera_tigris_tigris_Bengal.jpg


actually, I have one image left but I lost it.
and this is my final calendar