Beer Label Illustration and Design
These are beer labels I’ve illustrated and designed for Hot House Brewing. The illustrations on the cans are digital paintings. I do the illustrations in ProCreate on my iPad Pro, using an Apple Pencil. Final tune-ups are handled in Photoshop.
I design and layout the labels in Adobe InDesign. Each label has a left-side panel which has some information relating to the subject of the label art. I do all the research and writing as well as the artwork.
Time-lapse Video
Above: Line art for Grandma’s Sweater. It was drawn in ink on paper, scanned, and transferred to ProCreate on my iPad Pro. All color & texture was done in ProCreate.
Below: A time-lapse video of the process. I was going for a woodcut sort of feel to the final art.
Below: the finished label
3D Mockups
I use Strata Design 3D to mock-up the labeled cans for use in marketing elements, like sell sheets and Facebook posts. Once the base model is built, changing the label and producing a new render from any angle is fairly simple. Modeling the cans prior to the labeled can production allows us to get a jump on the marketing before we have the printed labels.