Taking a break from my current project, I used my tablet to experiment with designing and type. This only took about 20 minutes for me to come up with, but it was a nice break from doing illustrations and to design what I wanted to.
I chose to play with the brush settings on Photoshop to achieve a marker like feel with the posters, creating several dozen different layers before I felt happy with the brush style I created; I even saved this as preset for me to use in later work. It was nice to contribute my own handwriting to a work and create something very minimalistic as oppose to something with a few hundred layers.
The text I used was whatever came to my head at the time - “meow” or implicating tiredness was how I felt on the day, and I added a pop of colour to the background of the work which felt very tactile and gave the work some texture to it.
This was a nice break and I really wanted to do some more text development behind it, maybe creating some kind of pattern or piece to upload to my portfolio or experiment with different downloadable brushes to see how far I could take hand-written stuff, as this was something I’d never approached before.
