Robin Business Card

Robin Business Card

My band member asked if I could create him a business card. 

I immediately thought something simple like this. I sent him the rough and he liked it.

I didn't know how I was going to make it so I thought that I would try to use my Wacom again as I hadn't used it for a long time. This also was not a direct copy from a photograph and I had to create the image mentally by mashing up different photos of him playing in my brain. I wanted to make it seem hand made (Robin is quite a rough and ready human) but also professional (this is his life and he takes music very seriously) and this seemed to give me a balance.

 I wanted to hand draw the name and make the S the same as the hole in his violin. I thought it frames quite nicely on a slant with his bow and violin and made the image less regimented in quarters as it changed angles. I also wanted to frame the image.

 I thought I could try and add some darker lines onto the clothing to see what that looked like and I found that even those few lines made the image see more sophisticated (is that the right word?)

 At this point I decided that the frame wasn't right. I was really struggling to get a straight line but thought this might be okay because of the aesthetic and maybe I should make the border as thick as the type of his name.

Then I added the information. This was the only font I could find on photoshop and it looked crap. The font was totally wrong and it was really thin.

 I asked my graphic designer flatmate for input and he told me that I should make the border straight. You cant see here but the black doesn't go right up to the border which I like. I also couldn't find how to draw the line straight so I just drew 4 very thin rectangles... He also showed me how to import a different font into photoshop which was more suitable.