I'm a type of guy who does a lot of things old school:

  • I listen on a 25 year old Sony Walkman a library of 20 cassette tapes while doing art.
  • I pencil/ink on Bristol board, no tablet.

However, I do use Photoshop and Illustrator while lettering and coloring pages.

Along the way I've played around with some of the tricks and effects they offer.

Photoshop has this neat effect called 'twirl'.

Now let me back up a bit and tell you about my predicament.

It's me.

I needed to depict the drug addled point of view, the scene going haywire, warping and swirling around.

The problem with me, the human element is that I can't seem to distort things without thinking logically. My training and habits in drawing a person and their outfit, the background all get a lot of interference from how things 'look' in that child-level of building an image like they're all toys.

So I got a guy who's hallucinating on 'shrooms and is playing an imaginary oboe. By employing a little 'twist' like the example you can see how that panel looks a little...

... off.

Digital effects are great when used 'just enough' to sell your idea. But that's it, really. Don't go too far.

BONUS PROBLEM:

I had to depict a super-human baby spinning a head+spine body part, whapping all the guy's faces. What to do? RADIAL BLUR!

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