Hand Drawn Illustrations – Popular once again

The world of graphic design is quite dynamic and is constantly changing and evolving. As a top-notch Web Design Company in Mumbai, every year, we see newer trends being introduced and being accepted or rejected by the design community. Depending on the response a particular trend receives, it either makes a permanent place on the drawing board or may even make intermittent appearances. The hand-drawn look has been making a quiet yet assured comeback in the design world as graphic designers create hand-drawn art and integrate them into fresh projects.

As a state-of-the-art Web Design Company in Mumbai, we make regular use of hand-drawn art and illustrations while clients have warmed up to sketches, hash marks, and doodles during the presentation and brain-storming sessions. Web design and animation have accepted hand-drawn illustrations and so has a print design.

So where is hand-drawn art being used today in the design industry? Let’s find out:

1. Atmospheric gradients

Gradients have been a big trend throughout the 2010s, and only recently their use has become a lot more sophisticated. Atmospheric gradients can produce a variety of moods, from euphoria to brooding menace. As from the above image one can notice that there is a trend for maintaining tight control over the palette which seems to increase the image’s impact.

2. Art Minimalism

Illustrators and designers use hand-drawn illustrations to create personal portfolios but a recent trend shows that entire projects, be it web or print, use it as a feature. This matches the minimalistic theory of capturing important concepts by eliminating non-essential ideas.

3. Flat color and limited palette

This type reduces the color palette to its essential and also adds in the thin air of sophistication to any illustration. Stir in some light and shadows in this and you have yourself a cocktail that’s becoming ever more popular.

4. Additional content

Graphic designers have begun using doodles to support the main content as doodles are perfect as background fillers and textural elements. Sometimes, only a sole element of the project is hand-drawn. Probably the social media buttons on a webpage are hand-drawn and the side illustration too is hand-drawn.

5. Printmaking

Digital illustrations can sometimes feel a little impersonal, a counter-trend to this can be seen in the increasing call for physical techniques. A warm quality achieved from lino, silkscreen, letterpress, or a skillfully applied digital texture is still in high demand.

6. Integrating style

Hand drawn elements merge seamlessly with the main design, never overwhelming it, with the highly stable geometric designs surrounding it. For example, while working on a website, the infographics and logos are being hand-drawn and the background & navigation remains solid. This trend of hand-drawn illustrations is being followed by many Web Design Company in Mumbai, Thane, and Navi-Mumbai, like ours and we are also using it in typography for print and digital media.

7.Illustrative lettering

Illustrative lettering is also known as Hand-lettering, or custom lettering and is thriving right now for good reason. No matter how large the range of available typefaces becomes, sometimes lettering is the only way to magically blend a particular illustration style into an image.

According to any leading Web Design Company in Mumbai, Thane, and Navi-Mumbai, this should be a good start for many of the users who have started researching how one can start their website. We assure you to go into further depth in our future blogs such as The Difference Between Web Development and Web Designing or The Importance of Using Split Screen Designs for Websites to learn about more exciting topics.