By Brian Allen
One of the more obscure projects clients hire me for are illustrations for Vaping Designs. It’s always a pleasure to create artwork for a more niche style of design.
Lately, I have been doing a lot of fun illustrations and logos for vaping companies, e-cigarette, and e-juice labels. Here is a quick video of some of my favorite illustrations that I have done.
Client:
Fumeine
Description:
Pleasure to work with this vaping company in the UK, to design their new labels for a line of vaping ejuice. I thought it would be cool to create this slightly creepy monk character – graphics were set up to fit both wide and tall labels, leaving room for a gazillion disclaimers and warning text that is required in that area.
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Description:
I was hired to create the logo and t-shirt design for Relentless Mods, a company that creates hand-made vaping accessories. The brand wanted me to take their custom tips and bring them to life by transforming them into little monsters.
Client:
Adrenaline Vapors
Description:
Illustration of a gold-digger with rich old dude, boogey man, noir sleuth, and mob boss I illustrated for a series of Vaping ejuice labels for the Adrenaline Vapors brand.
Client:
Blowfish Vapes
Description:
Logo design I illustrated of a punk rock blowfish for a vaping brand called Blowfish Competition Vape. When we started, the only concept we had was the name “Blowfish Vapes,” so I experimented with a few different styles of blowfish, including one that was a salty pirate. We like the concept of making the blowfish a punk rocker with a mohawk and piercings, including a big hook through his lip. I tried to use a color palette with high contrast so it would stand out when it’s printed on the small label that goes on a vaping label.
Client:
Adrenaline Vapors
Description:
Mascot and logo design of a big angry face for packaging design I created for the vaping eJuice brand, Adrenaline Vapors. My client contacted me with only the name of their business established, , and wanted an identifiable mascot and logo that could be printed on packaging. I provided a series of rough sketches, moving forward with this concept of an angry face with smoke coming from his head. After several color iterations, the client chose this color scheme which they thought showed up really nicely on the packaging.
Client Testimonial:
People love the artwork you did for me! Thank you again. I couldn’t be happier!
-Adrenaline Vapors
Position
Client:
eSmoke
Description:
This is a series of character designs of crooks and criminals I illustrated for a line of vaping labels for a series of eJuice sold by Crooks Vapors.
The client gave me complete freedom in choosing a different criminal caricature for each of the four label designs. I drew the characters in pen and ink, and colored them in Adobe Photoshop.
I was hired to illustrate and design this new line of eJuice vaping flavors for Valgous. The client approached me with the idea of having each flavor represented by six different chess pieces. I thought it would be cool to illustrate the labels as if the characters were from a dark, fantasy kingdom.
In addition, I also designed the logo for the series, Valgous: Slayer, and even designed the point-of-purchase display. The series will be distributed and sold to vaping outlets around the country.
We are also planning a line of t-shirts featuring the characters to help promote the new line.
Zombie label illustrations I created for Vaping Sisters’ new line of eJuice flavors. The client gave me the names of the eight flavors, and I had to design and illustrate a different character for each. The labels themselves are only about 2.5 inches tall, so I had to design the characters with a lot of contrast and bright colors so they could be legible at such a small size. The flavors are sold online and in their shop.
Vaping Sisters
Package design illustrations I created for a new line of vaping e-juice flavors by Vaping Sisters. The labels were all mafia themed. Watching Scarface 15 times has finally paid off! I was required to conceptualize and illustrate 10 different labels, based on different mafia archetypes. Can’t wait to start the next series!
“We’ve been very impressed! We look forward to working with you again on our next line!”
Clayton
Salty Dog Vapor
Logo design I created for a vaping shop in Louisiana called Salty Dog Vapor. We decided early on that the mascot should be a tough bulldog sailor. Extremely pleased with how this turned out.
Concept Sketch
Concept Sketch
Check out my other portfolio categories
Custom Illustrations for packaging design, comic books, mascots, web banners, editorials, and T-Shirts for the lighter side.
Custom Illustrations for packaging design, comic books, mascots, web banners, editorials, and T-Shirts for the lighter side.
Custom Graphic Design for logos, branding, identity, and packaging.
Custom character design and mascot illustration for sports teams, websites, brands, and logos.
Album Cover and gig poster design and illustration for rock and heavy metal bands.
Professional Illustrator Brian Allen reviews the new Wacom Cintiq Pro 24″ (non-touch). I have been using the new Wacom Cintiq Pro 24″ extensively since early April 2018 and I love it! I upgraded from the Wacom Cintiq 24HD, which I used for over 6 years. I had high expectations for this digital drawing tablet and […]
