This post is part of a series. Here’s the introduction and overview.

Final image

Sketchnoting

For me, the thing that stands out in this sketchnote is the snout of the piggy bank. I couldn’t get it right the first time, but left the mistake for posterity. So now it looks like a dirty piggy :-) .

Lessons learned:

• Again there was more experimentation with type. I particularly like the quick but interesting doubling of vertical lines in the word “Custom” on the second page;
• I partially fixed it in post, but too much white space on the second page gives a sense of incoherence.

Post-processing

The post processing is familiar by now:

• Straighten & Crop the scanned image;
• Apply an Unsharpen mask and Threshold to clean the bulk of the image;
• Clean borders and small imperfections with the Pencil tool;
• Apply a g Gaussian blur (2.0 x 2.0);
• Add grey & colour accents with a Brush (Size: 50). Of course this should be pink :-) . I reduced the opacity of the colour layer a bit to get the right effect.

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