#ToonTuesday

Type: Illustration, Social Media Content • Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects

An Instagram series that paired a musical tune with a cartoon.

I developed this series for my Instagram profile, @donnie.png, when I was taking long train rides from and to work. I turned endless scrolling into my creative dopamine. The goal here was expression and love. Ultimately, this series turned my digital pen into my greatest creative strength.

As seen below, the illustrations evolved over the life of the series. I began with a mashup of black and white illustrations and album covers. However, this look faded as soon as I started to add color to the figures. I compared the series to the Marvel cinematic universe in terms of phases. I felt like the series reached its goal at Phase 4 when I decided to take away the album background and re-introduce the people-like figures. However, I struck the perfect cord with the more playful color palettes and thin black stroke lines.

I also experimented with animation in this series. The success varies as the Lana Del Rey video being the ideal mashup of this series: an illustrative figure as the center piece complementing the song and lyrics.