#hand lettered type

[cbaillustration]

After a long and difficult job, this definitely ended up being a timely little lettering piece!

[kitmarcelo]

There's Nothing I'm Not Worthy Of (2018)

After a job interview around a week or two ago, I went to a coffee shop near my mom's work to wait for her to leave work so we could go home together. While waiting, I was chatting with my friends Clarice and Teri about the movie The Greatest Showman. I've already seen the movie that weekend (it was lacking in plot but it was a fantastic watch nonetheless) and I remembered the line from the song This Is Me which (which is one of my favorite songs in the movie) said, "and I know that I deserve your love / (Oh-oh-oh-oh) 'cause there's nothing I'm not worthy of". That line really struck a chord with me so I really wanted to make an artwork inspired by it.

I sketched out the words, went over it using a black marker and pens, rendered it in Illustrator, traced over the swirly confetti shapes, added stars, arranged the elements, and finally colored it in. I made four color variants instead of my usual three because I wanted to experiment with different color schemes.

[inkymole]

Betsy Cornwell’s new novel ‘Forest Queen’ is published in August 2018, but has already had its cover reveal! Ink on paper and many layers and textures for this one.

[holleyapple]

and the thumbnails from the last project! we went with a combination of the bottom two thumbnails for the final design ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

[holleyapple]

Chocolate sauce labels designed for Furniture City Creamery. 

[cdjartanddesign]

Holiday Card Process

This will be a pretty simple overview on how one of the Holiday Cards was made.

Each card was hand drawn on tracing paper and then scanned and brought into illustrator. I then used the Image Trace tool to vectorize the words.

Unfortunately image tracing did not come out as clean as I wanted and I decided to use the results as a base that I then drew over in Photoshop.

In Photoshop I picked out my color pallet and began working. I created my 3D type and then used a watercolor brush to add texture to letters.

I then decided to add a decorative element on the outside to finish the piece. 

I added back in the background color and completed the card.

Much like how an actual card would have the company information on the back, I included my logo and my website link to the back of the cards. 

I will be putting up a more in-depth tutorial on the textured 3D type at later date. 

[holleyapple]

HOMEMADE APPLE PIE digital media, 2015

another piece I made for the senior show exhibit! This one’s a quote by Carl Sagan, about three of my favorite things—apples, astronomy, and incomprehensibility. 

[holleyapple]

forgot to post this finished piece for the hallowzine!

it was nice to throw in a cute lighthearted piece with all the overtly symbolic imagery of my other stuff ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ