Coming up with ideas for your blog is like coming up with ideas for anything creative. The biggest thing you need to know while brainstorming techniques for your blog illustration is that your initial burst will more than likely not be your best. The way our consciousness works is that the five senses absorb things […]
How to Produce Email Graphics That Get Clicks
You log in to Gmail. You can see you have about 17 new messages in your “Promotions” tab. You quickly skim through. In some cases, you want to take your time to read through the entire email, but you just spent 20 minutes checking your Primary email section and responding to Facebook notifications. You want […]
What Does Your Blog Typography Say About You, and Why Does It Matter?
I’m a comic book artist, and that means I think about blog typography in a very different way than most. Comics rely on typography – or what they call “lettering” in this biz – to an extreme that most people would never have considered. What makes a fist punch onomatopoeia “POW!” the right way? Well, […]
Seeing Is Believing: How Blog Illustration Can Make Your Customers Buy In
Good illustration is a challenge and can be time-consuming. No matter how cheap you can get an iPhone, download an app, and cut out parts of the illustration process (pen, paper, etc.), creating quality art takes dedication, patience, and concentration. One only has to watch comic artist Sara Pichelli create an entirely digital illustration in […]
Business Art and Design: An Intuitive History
There are great websites out there that can give you the history of commercial illustration with facts and figures. What I’m going to do is break business art and design down according to the key points that pertain to how human beings understand imagery. Here it goes: Humanity forms. People gather in communities, creating the […]