2020 was a strange year for everyone, myself included, but one of the things I wanted to keep doing was expanding both my design and illustration skills as much as possible. That resulted in me tackling a new vector illustration for the first time in awhile.
I’ve always been widely influenced by music and I decided to make the focus of this project one of my favorite hip-hop artists, Post Malone. I’d drawn a traditional sketch of Post Malone a few years previous which I created in an angel motif. For this new piece, I thought it’d be fun to make a devil motif to pair with it.
I started off this project as I do with all my vector illustrations: I made an initial, hand-drawn sketch. I section off areas of the sketch that will make it much easier to vector once the image is scanned.
I then worked on the vector line work before adding color:
The final color stages went through two revisions and I also decided to add a background. The black hat ended up being more consistent with the vision I had and a better overall fit design-wise:
Overall, I feel like my process is more refined and that I can continue to work on more detailed, in-depth illustrations in the future.