'DIVORCING' YOUR PARENTS
Editorial illustration for HUMO Magazine
TASK: The article tells the 3 stories of an adult child leaving his/her parents to never see them again.
CONCEPT: A simple, effective solution for this one, a burning bridge.


- PROCES -
From sketch to finished work

1. Tidy pencil drawing - 2. Scan and increase the contrast - 3. Flat coloring - 4. Details, textures

- inspiration for the coloring -
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY
Chromolithography is an early method for making multi-colour prints.
Used for Holy Cars, school plates, rum and cigars labels,...
I like the details of the randomly placed dots. A time-consuming hand-drawn process.
I like the details of the randomly placed dots. A time-consuming hand-drawn process.
Quite different from the photo-mechanical regular grids of 4 color printing proces.

- DETAILS -




I was looking how to recreate this random dot texture. And here I learned the trick.
Short tutorial by Matt Borchert (15 min).


- THANKS FOR WATCHING! -