My new business cards for Comic Con!
I made them myself, can I have a cookie now?
Creating those little cards was a lot more work than I expected. Seriously, I am a writer who sometimes designs on a computer but rarely draws anything worth showing to anyone with decent eyesight. But I finally got them close to what I was envisioning, and that made the effort worthwhile. I can’t wait to hand them to people at Comic Con next week!
Here’s how I made the design:
- Thought about what kind of business card would work well, and came up with the idea for a comic-style card.
- Started drawing caricatures of myself. Some were really, really, horrible. I had to look up how to draw a female body because I wasn’t getting it right.
- Finally figured out that I should draw the caricature elements separately, scan them, and then piece them together in Adobe Illustrator (CS1 that I got in my last year of college but never really learned how to use).
- Hit the jackpot with Blambot.com, where I found some awesome free comic fonts (for Mac and PC) and pre-made dialogue balloons in .eps format. Perfect!
- Swore a lot as I learned how to alter the Illustrator files to get the dialogue balloons in the size and shape I wanted.
- Added the text (Blambot’s Anime Ace 2.0) and obsessed a little over the exact wording.
- Tweaked and tweaked until Illustrator and Photoshop both worked together with me enough to get the final result you see above.
It’s not perfect, but I won’t be embarrassed to hand out that design. And there is probably a better way to do something like that… so if you have any suggestions for next time, please leave a comment. I’m not under any delusions that I would be able to illustrate my own graphic novel, but it would be nice to learn a little more about art ‘n stuff. I would like to write one someday (soon, maybe, with all this Comic Con inspiration).
Next on the agenda before Comic Con: packing and maybe finally getting around to updating my website?
