Bloody Maria Cocktail Artwork
For the last two years of my career I have been focused on textile prints, although my formal education is Graphic Design and my major, typography.
After these two years working on patterns, I felt the urge of combining my illustration skills with my passion for typography. This artwork is the result of my first attempt combining surface patterns with typography.
Brief
I love tomatoes and I like vodka, so obviously Bloody Mary is always my cocktail of choice. I thought of this funny idea combining a pattern made out of the basic ingredients of the cocktail accompanied by the alternative popular saying "a Bloody Mary a day keeps the doctor away".
I love tomatoes and I like vodka, so obviously Bloody Mary is always my cocktail of choice. I thought of this funny idea combining a pattern made out of the basic ingredients of the cocktail accompanied by the alternative popular saying "a Bloody Mary a day keeps the doctor away".
Process
Pattern: Handmade line art using a 0.38 and 0.50 ballpoint pens. Pattern retouched and coloured in Photoshop. Hand-drawn lettering, vectorised in Illustrator with hand-drawn details added on top.
Pattern: Handmade line art using a 0.38 and 0.50 ballpoint pens. Pattern retouched and coloured in Photoshop. Hand-drawn lettering, vectorised in Illustrator with hand-drawn details added on top.
Materials
Ballpoint pens to draw individually all elements of the pattern. Retouched and coloured in Photoshop and final lay-out in Illustrator. The base for the lettering is my own calligraphy using a ruling pen and walnut ink. After that, using 0.38 ballpoint pen I added weight. Then, I scanned the hand lettering and vectorised the letterforms using Illustrator. As a final step, I added hand-drawn details on top of the lettering to make it more human and less computer-perfect.
Ballpoint pens to draw individually all elements of the pattern. Retouched and coloured in Photoshop and final lay-out in Illustrator. The base for the lettering is my own calligraphy using a ruling pen and walnut ink. After that, using 0.38 ballpoint pen I added weight. Then, I scanned the hand lettering and vectorised the letterforms using Illustrator. As a final step, I added hand-drawn details on top of the lettering to make it more human and less computer-perfect.
Formats
Every element of the pattern has been drawn at around 15x15cm on tracing paper. The final layout is done in Illustrator at about 70x100cm canvas. The lettering has been hand-drawn at a DIN A-4 size.
Every element of the pattern has been drawn at around 15x15cm on tracing paper. The final layout is done in Illustrator at about 70x100cm canvas. The lettering has been hand-drawn at a DIN A-4 size.
Limited edition of 200 prints available on my online store. All prints are signed and numbered.
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