Ex Libris Jemi (school work)

This is a bookplate design based on the Art Nouveau movement/style. "Ex Libris [your name]" is "From the Library of [your name]" in Latin.

I had to come up with 6 different sketches, 3 per any art movement we have studied. I chose Art Nouveau and Art Deco. I had to pick the best of the 3 sketches per movement to complete as a final work. The Art Deco final piece wasn't as impressive as this one, so I'm not gonna upload it XP Adobe Illustrator is the best program to use for this kind of work, but apparently my class is one of the few classes yet to have learnt how to use it, so I used PaintToolSAI instead =w= (wanted to try out Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 which came free with my tablet, but I wasn't familiar with it and was wasting a lot of time figuring things out ) ...and I fell asleep while colouring this at 1AM, woke up several hours later at 6AM and went "OOOOH SHIET SCHOOL STARTS AT 9AM AND I HAVEN'T SHADED THIS" I noticed that peacocks in Art Nouveau works are usually drawn with their head pointing upwards and tail pointing downwards, but I decided to be a rebel and do the opposite 8D (Classmate: "When people go left, you'll go right")

*cough* this was obviously based on my OC, Peatail the Peacock *cough* One of the other sketches had a swan in it, and that too was based on another OC of mine, Berura the Swan *cough*

I might digitise the sketches which didn't make it to the final cut just for fun. IF I have time. My classmates remarked that my style resembles that of children's storybooks I take that as a compliment, because being a children's book illustrator is a career that I would still be passionate about even if I don't end up in the animation or videogame industry.

UPDATE [11 Aug 2015]: Finally compiled the sketches!!! fav.me/d956z85

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Artwork by JemiDove.
Subject/Module: History of Graphic Design
Programs used: PaintToolSAI (I haven't been taught the proper programs like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, so I just used whatever I had)
Time taken: ........THE TAIL TOOK 3 HOURS THAT'S ALL I REMEMBER so the whole thing took much longer than that
Date: 21 May 2014.
Do not use/alter/repost any of my artworks/designs or claim them as your own.