Remember when Jessie Spano got addicted to caffeine pills?
Prints and more available at Society6! / Daily Drawing #1382.
Lettering + Illustration, Process
I recently did a hand-lettering workshop for AIGA Boston with some amazing people including, Lara McCormick, Annica Lydenberg, Carlos Pagan, and Ryan O’Rourke. During my presentation / demo, I showed these images and discussed my process for turning a quote or phrase into an illustration. Each image has some little notes diagraming my thought process and illustration process as I go. I thought I’d share it here, since people often ask about this stuff.
This is the phrase I’ve decided to draw.
Next I quickly and simply, write it out to check for spacing / word length / etc.
Sometimes I’ll write it in cursive to see how the letterforms look together.
Next, I’ll look at individual letters and letter combinations and see if I can spice things up.
Maybe I’ll get a little crazy and try some non-traditional ligatures or play with scale, caps, lowercase, angles…
Once I am in a place that is starting to feel right I’ll start to tighten things up and finalize.
Here’s my finished pen and ink drawing.
Here it is as a finished illustration. I added color in Photoshop.
During the workshop, Annica, Carlos, and myself did some lettering together on the chalkboard: Check it out on Instagram.
Overkill is Underrated
Prints and more available at Society6! / Daily Drawing #1381.
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