I love making type by hand. All of the type here was drawn with my Wacom Tablet in Photoshop. In fact, I just got the latest tablet yesterday after realizing how old my previous tablet was (going on 8 years... I guess they’re built to last). The new one is fantastic and will be inspiring lots more hand drawn type and imagery.
I spent July making paper cut snowflakes, spray painting them and scanning them in. Mixed with snowflakes drawn with my pen brush, and others drawn with my archival pen tips, the ‘Let it Snow’ illustration is a more like a snow storm of all my image techniques put together.
This illustration was greatly improved once I added in all my swirly lines (one of my favorite Photoshop brushes) and textures. I think I have texture addiction.
This is just a small peek of the holiday card collection to come for Winter 2008. Stay tuned for the entire collection debut coming soon. These cards should be for sale in about 2 or 3 weeks! I will have them up on astronautcat.com as soon as they are ready to ship.
