A NEW HEART TO HEART COMMUNITY HANGOUT THUMBNAIL

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Before now, I have been looking forward to finding the time to recreate the thumbnail of the heart-to-heart community hangout, but I have not been able. So I decided to sit a few hours in front of my computer, trying to get some inspiration for what to create. It was very crazy, I must say, as coming up with an idea was not easy at the end. I came up with this:

building or buying a house.jpg

After taking a look at it, I felt, Hmm, there is quite too much space at the top right corner of the picture. So I decided to add an irregular shape to make it a little bit more sleek.

Yeah, you can see that I am making use of Canva. I make all my designs using Canva, and I have improved a bit over the years.

Although I don't always make my thumbnails as complex as this (not like saying this design is complex), I just use a strategy that when I make my designs, I don't sit for hours making them as I did for this.

I spent at least 2 hours on this design, as starting up something was not easy. My aim was to make something sleek and tasty. I never initially wanted to go for brown; I was looking at white and blue, but it was not really tasty to my eye more because of my avatar.

The skin colour of my avatar is brown, so I thought, Why not create a thumbnail that goes with the same colour of my avatar? The inspiration started coming t untilI was able to finish up to this stage.

I decided to try out some animations available on Canva. So what I did was select the items I would like to animate, then click on animate.

Here are two animations that I like from this design that I was able to create.

Animate 1.gif

I like this first animation because it would really fit pop music as an intro for a video. I may be making use of this animation most often when editing the recording of the hangout.

Animate 2.gif

I like this second animation because it is gentle and cool. It moves with a slow progression and would go in line with songs like that.

If you like this design and you want me to share a tutorial on how I made it, Feel free to let me know in the comment section.

𝙰𝙱𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙰𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁

_{Designed by @ grisvisa}

_{Starstrings01, also known as Giftedhands, attends the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta to study mechatronics engineering. He is a lover of the hive, a guitarist from Nigeria, and a student.}

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