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Old Fashioned | Artwork

This is my third illustrated cocktail artwork called All Passion featuring an Old Fashioned drink.

Old Fashioned Research

When I thought about whisky, the first image that came to my mind was a really comfortable dark space, full of beautiful leather couches and warm lights; a very intimate space with cigars.

I did some research about the cocktail’s recipe and I decided to work on oranges as the main ingredient for this piece. I love this fruit and its colours.

All the oranges and the glass were drawn by hand using a 0.38mm and 0.50mm ballpoint pen. Then scanned, cleaned and coloured in Photoshop.

Doing further research about this cocktail I found an interesting post which states:

The Old-Fashioned is at once ‘the manliest cocktail order’ and ‘something your grandmother drank’ and between those poles we discover countless simple delights, evolutionary wonders, and captivating abominations. […] It is a platform for a bar to make a statement […]

Old Fashioned Lettering Process

The lettering of this artwork comes from a song titled “Good Old Fashion Lover Boy”. I used to be a big fan of Queen when I was younger, so this song gave me the inspiration for the message “I learnt my passion in the good Old Fashioned”.

Regarding the lettering style, from the beginning I had the idea of creating a neon sign combined with a leather couch pattern in the background.

I began to work on the lettering using a monoline. Then I vectorised the forms and added layers of bright colours on top using Illustrator.