final business card

i thought it might be good to see the finished product back and front in one post as well as the marks used to finish it.

the front of the business as featured in the past post, and below what is going to go on the back. I was quite unsure about background detail continuing the brush stroke from front to back and easing the text into the design seemed to work best after some experimentation. 

i think keeping consistency across the front and back of the design is one of the most important factors in designing a business card. 

 these are some of the loose marks i experimented with overlaying before settling on the final, much alike to he final these were brushed onto a scrap of paper and digitally overlaid until deemed useless.

 the marks that saved the day (below)!!! these two brush strokes were done with this massive hogs hair Chinese brush, i wanted there to be breaks in the stroke to give way for the image an text. it was surprising how quickly it came together once i had the right marks.