My last two blog entries have covered my recent forays into stop-motion video and product photography—I also designed some digital end titles. As with my videos and photos, I completed these for book publishers, with the titles cards used in videos or in social media/website advertisements. They offer a nice alternative to product photography. There are only so many plants, candles, and fairy lights I could tolerate.
I mostly use Photoshop, going for a more raw ink-splattered look with water color textures to emulate the raw tools of sequential art production (pencils—colored or otherwise, markers, acrylic pain, etc). Despite formally working at a design firm co-founded by a god of Swiss composition, I’m admittedly terrible at Illustrator and more clean, antiseptic design. I simply can’t color within the lines… The Kyle Brush collection of digital paint brushes has proven invaluable, as has Adobe Fonts. I added a few examples below. In the future my work will ideally merge photography with this design/illustration.
