How Did We Get Here? (2019/2020)

This a selection of spot illustrations for a short digital illustrated story entitled: How Did We Get Here? The humorous narrative explores the absurdity we find our selves in due to the rapid onset of technology subverting everyday norms of daily life with our phones and social media. The art direction required the illustrations to reflect the visual language of old low-cost halftone press printing. With the use of only two colours, the graduation of halftone intensity creates the rendering. I used graphite pencil to doodle occasionally over the images to produce a tactile worn in aesthetic. I used Procreate on iPad OS to create the illustrations and used Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to add texture and realism. This selection of illustrations is taken from the 'Stories From the Phone Shop' series of short digital illustrated stories made specially for consumption on smartphones​. On the go reading!