Usually the final style is very rough and edgy. For me, I think it’s worth taking a step back and thinking if this style suits your core values. But sometimes it’s too easy to jump on a design trend and slap it to your identity thinking it’s the correct thing to do. Design teams like Dropbox, Mailchimp, Zendesk, yada,yada,yada, have really pushed the hand drawn illustration style as their primary illustration style, I’m guessing, all created with Procreate (I could be wrong).
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The way design trends have been leaning recently, brand styles have been leaning a lot more on this free style. Luckily, this one’s pretty easy, but there are some quirks that you may need to get used to, I’ll expand on a few further down in this article. I must know about 10 different design tools already so adding another one felt like it may be the straw that broke the camels back.
Here’s some crappy examples of some of my life drawing exercisesĪnother thing that may cause a little bit of digital frustration is trying to get your head around another design tool. Don’t get me wrong, I still use illustrator daily for different illustration styles, but for this particular hand drawn, more human approach, Procreate works much better. It always felt quite restricted, and the outcome always quite generic. Up until now, my illustration style has always been very rigid, manipulating shapes in Illustrator, which never really felt like really illustrating for some reason.
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This led me down the path of getting an iPad Pro and pencil (thanks Clubhouse 🥰), which led me down the path of getting Procreate, and I instantly fell in love with it. Something that needed a different approach.Īfter doing some research around how others tackle the area, ( Dropbox, Intercom, Slack to name a few) I felt a more free, hand drawn style would work best. Product illustrations is something I specialise in, but blog illustration was something different. It’s not something I had really tackled too often before. Recently I started a new role at Clubhouse as a Visual Designer, which meant my job would be focusing more on illustrations and and more specifically blog illustrations.
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