I'm going to make this OP into kind of a portfolio thing, but I wanted a thread for questions on my doodles and WIPS.
I'm a Graphic Designer so I would love to talk to people on here about the nuts and bolts of the industry. Lately I've been doing a lot of clothing industry color correction and I've started using just a curves layer over a mid-tone selection mask; it not the norm in my experience and I wonder why since it keeps more detail in tact. My day job is a lot of stuff that it technically interesting but boring to show, since ideally no one knows I did it.
Mostly would like to do more physical illustration/art, but it's definitely not my strong suite.
I've been putting this together recently and I'm ready to ink but I'm not sure how I should shade it. I would like to do a Mike Migonla kind of thing but that might be too extreme, especially on the cartoon characters.
Well, one of the things about Mignola, style wise, is that he achieves visual intricacies through relatively simple forms and by using really good balance of shadows, which I think is definitely possible with the composition you have so far!
I started inking...and immediately fucked up the hat so now I have to actually think about how to shade/light the whole thing while also keeping the main wall light so I can write on it.
I like the idea of going Magnola on it still, I might mess with it digitally for ideas first.
*updated with some digital ink to try it out*
Continued to mess with the inking, I'm starting to get into a linocut kind of look that might work.
Small progress. I wish I had more time...stupid full time job.
Working on it digitally first is probably a solid idea.
Id be really curious to see what you do for work. Honestly our lack of designers is self perpetuating. No one posts that kind of stuff, so no one talks about it.
Working on it digitally first is probably a solid idea.
I'd be really curious to see what you do for work. Honestly our lack of designers is self perpetuating. No one posts that kind of stuff, so no one talks about it.
I work in house for a uniform manufacturer so it's a combination of not being able to show anything I work on until its like 3-4 months old so I already have moved on/hate it, and being boring to begin with because of the industry. Let me look through some of my stuff and I'll see what I can show off.
In the meantime here is some recent branding identity stuff I've done on the side.
I'm digging the patch but I feel like the kerning is a little wonky, with custom typefaces their kerning tables usually aren't very good. The S-A looks super far, A and N and R and L are too tight. Also save as gif or png to avoid the jpg distortion (although I'm not sure if its the forum compressing it further)
Good call on the kerning, I hadn't got to that yet I was just putting up the concept. I need to go back an make the clouds look more like clouds than fog. Thanks for the suggestion!
the first one has some clean bold edges at the top, so the font with the rugget outlines really breaks that flow, maybe making the font a lot bigger and changing the edges to correlate with the top ooze thing? also moving the font up so its a little bit consumed by the ooze? (unless you gotta put more information in the middle)
the second one, the font is way too small i think, since the ooze is so bold you really gotta make the font more dominant so it pops. the broken up ooze is kind of confusing, i prefer the smooth one, draws a lot of attention.
the first one has some clean bold edges at the top, so the font with the rugget outlines really breaks that flow, maybe making the font a lot bigger and changing the edges to correlate with the top ooze thing? also moving the font up so its a little bit consumed by the ooze? (unless you gotta put more information in the middle)
the second one, the font is way too small i think, since the ooze is so bold you really gotta make the font more dominant so it pops. the broken up ooze is kind of confusing, i prefer the smooth one, draws a lot of attention.
They're the same image, just one is chopped up which is a reference to the podcast. In a similar vein the font stuff at the top is the podcast's logo. The Dickens-esque font at the bottom is representative of the journaling that is a major narrative piece from this chapter of the podcast. This was build to be an 18x24" poster so the smaller font is purposeful and would not get lost in real life.
Almost done with this one, I can't tell if it's missing something simple or I just wont be satisfied with it. Maybe something's wrong with the font. I don't know.
I think you need to check what you want to be the prime shot of the image, it feels like all the elements are about equal in size/importance. Bumping up the contrast on those little guys, or bumping up the sun a lot might help give it a little more punch. As it is the thing I see first is the black on white text Gerblins, then everything else
I think you need to check what you want to be the prime shot of the image, it feels like all the elements are about equal in size/importance. Bumping up the contrast on those little guys, or bumping up the sun a lot might help give it a little more punch. As it is the thing I see first is the black on white text Gerblins, then everything else
That makes sense, the three little guys and the guy in the center of the "sun" are supposed to all be the same size, I should probably pump up the light/explosive graphic and maybe do something with the text at the bottom. Thanks for pointing that out.
If you're working in illustrator, its pretty easy to use the edit color tool to play around with color schemes pretty fast. There's even some default palettes that are pretty nice.
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It's been a while since I did anything with oil pastels but it was fun to jump back in!
I like the idea of going Magnola on it still, I might mess with it digitally for ideas first.
*updated with some digital ink to try it out*
Continued to mess with the inking, I'm starting to get into a linocut kind of look that might work.
Small progress. I wish I had more time...stupid full time job.
Id be really curious to see what you do for work. Honestly our lack of designers is self perpetuating. No one posts that kind of stuff, so no one talks about it.
I work in house for a uniform manufacturer so it's a combination of not being able to show anything I work on until its like 3-4 months old so I already have moved on/hate it, and being boring to begin with because of the industry. Let me look through some of my stuff and I'll see what I can show off.
In the meantime here is some recent branding identity stuff I've done on the side.
Should I just keep all of the updates to this on one post or separate them out every once in a while?
I like the final product I wish my sketches would look like that
Yes, its a manual so much simpler, and honestly more what I was looking for than something I would have to "maintain"
And another one.
the second one, the font is way too small i think, since the ooze is so bold you really gotta make the font more dominant so it pops. the broken up ooze is kind of confusing, i prefer the smooth one, draws a lot of attention.
They're the same image, just one is chopped up which is a reference to the podcast. In a similar vein the font stuff at the top is the podcast's logo. The Dickens-esque font at the bottom is representative of the journaling that is a major narrative piece from this chapter of the podcast. This was build to be an 18x24" poster so the smaller font is purposeful and would not get lost in real life.
Useage of the word "pop" is offensive. :razz:
That makes sense, the three little guys and the guy in the center of the "sun" are supposed to all be the same size, I should probably pump up the light/explosive graphic and maybe do something with the text at the bottom. Thanks for pointing that out.
My wife suggested the type doesn't really fit which I kind of agree with.