All Passion Cocktail Artwork
This is the inspiration behind my third illustrated cocktail artwork called “All Passion” featuring an Old Fashioned drink.
The reason why I chose this cocktail is that I wanted to use a different type of liquor as I had already featured vodka and gin on my previous artworks, so I felt it was time for a drink featuring whiskey or bourbon.
Brief
Thinking about the Old Fashioned cocktail, the first image that came to my mind was a really comfortable dark space, full of beautiful leather couches and warm lights; a very intimate space with cigars.
I did some research about the cocktail’s recipe and I decided to work on oranges as the main focus of the piece. I love this fruit and its colours.
All the oranges and the glass have been drawn by hand using a 0.38 and 0.50 ballpoint pen. Then scanned, cleaned and coloured in Photoshop.
Research
“The old-fashioned is at once ‘the manliest cocktail order’ and ‘something your grandmother drank’ and between those poles we discover countless simple delights, evolutionary wonders, and captivating abominations […] It is a platform for a bar to make a statement […]” Read the full article from The Slate here.
Lettering
I used to be a huge fan of Queen when I was a little girl, so the song “Good Old Fashion Lover Boy”gave me the inspiration for the message “I learnt my passion in the good Old Fashioned”.
Regarding the lettering style, from the beginning I had the idea of creating a neon sign combined with a vector pattern of a leather couch in the background.
I began to work on the lettering using a monoline. Then I vectorised the forms and added layers of bright colours in Illustrator.
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