MY ENTRY INTO THE HIVE LEARNERS DESIGN CONTEST

I'm really happy that I can meet up with this design contest. I had been trying to borrow a laptop for the design since last week, thankfully I was able to get one yesterday for the night and I came up with this... Okay, I admit

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I've lost my design touch, I was not able to express what I had in mind fully after more than 6 months of not designing, I was expecting to do something more lit and mature, but I ended up with a Childlike design. Perhaps if I had more time with the laptop I might have done something a little much better.🤧

THIS DESIGN WAS DONE WITH COREL DRAW X7 (what was available)... AND BELOW ARE THE STEPS I TOOK TO COME UP WITH IT

I started by removing the black background of the logo so I could use it how I deemed fit.

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After which I created the required size of the banner 1280 by 245

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Then I placed the logo in the middle of the space (I had other ideas at this point, but wasn't sure if I will be allowed to submit multiple entries...) I also created a circle and used the eraser tool to give it some unique touch, after which I placed it where the Logo was changing the color to white so the logo color could be seen clearly which resulted in this...

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Because of what I had in mind, I decided that the space in the circle should come out instead of going in, so I thought of adding a square which I shaped and merged with the circle to produce this...

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At this point I was indecisive about what I wanted to do next, so I thought of touching the empty space, of which I merged three colors of circles to archive this...

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Still indecisive I decided to try doing something with the hive logo, I ended up power-clipping it to the banner on both sides which turned out nice. I was also looking for the best place to put the panda, and I ended up putting it behind the hive logo. (I think this was what made it look childlike to me😂)

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Then again, I wasn't satisfied with how the background looked, the only thing I could think of was to increase the three circles which made it look much better, (although not satisfying to me 🤧) I was kinda in a rush to return the laptop, so I left it like this...

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Overall I'm happy I could design something After all this month, I'm also open to constructive criticism as it will help me do better next time.

This is entirely my work, and I give the hive learners community full access to use it if they wish to.

This is my entry into the hive learners design contest, if you wish to know more about it, you can click here

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, until next time.