As a visual artist first, I have and am always sketching and attempting to make characters and illustrations. I use the word attempting because my preferred style of visual art is realism. I generally pay so much attention to the details and I always want my pieces to look real. Still, it’s in my nature to never give up. I taught myself motion design and thought it would be fun to learn it by playing around with illustrations. The majority of these were created during the pandemic when we were in quarantine and alone with our thoughts.
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A PEEK INTO THE PROCESS
CHECK OUT HOW I DEVELOP MY MOTION GRAPHICS.
The Style
You may notice a style with the illustrations of the figures. It was naturally developed. There was a brush tool I liked a lot on Procreate. I liked the light, slightly transparent texture of this brush tool with a thick dark line over it. The bleeding of the color outside of the line is intentional.
The Process
I start out with a drawing. This could be anything from words to simple shapes and even artboards mapping out each step of the animation. Then I go into procreate. I love this app because it has layers like Photoshop. Similarly to how you make figures on After Effects, I create a separate layer for each part I envision moving. I’ll generally cut the layers and group them in Photoshop before moving them over to After Effects.
