I have been making a poster for this event every year for the last 8 years (we took a break for COVID) these posters have always been something that I took pride in and I’ve always looked forward to designing them. This one is no different!

The inspiration for every one of these posters was the video game series Borderlands. They use a really cool cell shading comic book look for their games and advertisements. Year after year I have made an attempt to make it feel like a comic book but I feel like I have fallen short until now. Using different filters, effects, layers, blending options and  a little bit of the paint brush tool I have finally figured out how to take pictures from a camera and make them look drawn

I might have leaned in a little to far to the comic book look for it to feel like a Borderlands design but I am more than pleased with how this turned out. On linkedIn I called this my magnum opus. I may have figured out my “style” I might have to reach out to promote this look.