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3 Steps to Graphic Record Your Next Vacation

August 17, 2016 By Kevin Thorn 4 Comments

Taking hundreds of photos on vacation end up in cloud storage and forgotten. A graphic record of your vacation is a perfect way to capture the entire adventure!

The Problem:

Growing up as a kid going on annual vacations I would always get those disposable cameras to capture the adventure. However, these little cameras usually came in 24 or 36 exposures and I could only afford two or three for the trip. Try restricting yourself to less than a 100 photos on your next vacation! Even though care was taken in choosing what photos to take, most of the developed photos ended up as blurry or over exposed.

I would pick a dozen or so good photos out of the bunch and put them in a little photo album. Oh, and be sure to write the date and place on the back of the photo! Toss in a souvenir or two from that trip and it’s in the bag until next year’s vacation.

Today we have the ability to take an unlimited number of photos of everything several times. These modern day photos are not for developing or putting in photo albums. Rather, they are usually for instant sharing on our social media streams. Further, our precious photos end up in the cloud somewhere maybe in a “summer vacation” folder. Forgotten.

Guilty.

A Graphic Plan:

Our 2016 summer vacation was going back to Hawaii. Our first trip to Hawaii I did exactly what I explained above – hundreds of digital photos that I haven’t looked at since I put them in the cloud a couple years ago. This Hawaiian visit I had a new idea where my plan was to record the trip in a journal, sketch out a plan and then draw the entire vacation into one graphic image.

Hawaii Vacation sketchbook graphic

We also flew straight through to Hawaii and back this time with a red-eye flight between Vegas and Honolulu. I figured the 24-hour overall travel time was an adventure in of itself so I added the flights as flanking scenes to the week.

From there it was off to production. Drawn digitally in Photoshop on a Wacom Cintiq Companion2.

Final Graphic Record:

Final Graphic

Hawaii Vacation Cintiq1 graphic

Hawaii Vacation Cintiq3 graphic

Hawaii Vacation Cintiq2

Hawaii Vacation graphic 4

Hawaii Vacation graphic 3

Hawaii Vacatio graphic 6

Hawaii Vacation graphic 5

Hawaii Vacation graphic 2

Get your next vacation graphically recorded

Would you like a digitally produced high resolution graphic record of you next vacation suitable for framing? If so, follow these three steps:

  1. Record as much detail about your vacation in a journal
  2. Take a bunch of photos for reference, and
  3. Contact me!

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About Kevin Thorn

Chief NuggetHead, Kevin Thorn is an award-winning eLearning designer with over 30 years’ experience in the training industry. Kevin earned a Technology Management degree in pursuit of an IT career. With a pencil in his pocket, his interest in technology mashed with his passion for visual design, he founded NuggetHead Studioz, LLC. The Studioz is a custom design & development company providing services in instructional design, storyboarding, eLearning development, Articulate Storyline training, illustration, graphic design, storytelling, cartooning and comics.

Comments

  1. Suzanne waite says

    August 17, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    Very cool Kevin! Great idea.

    Reply
    • Kevin Thorn says

      August 17, 2016 at 3:16 pm

      Hey Susan! Thanks! It took awhile but was a fun project.

      Reply
  2. Magi says

    August 17, 2016 at 11:25 pm

    Awesome idea! Your talent never fails to amaze me.

    Reply
    • Kevin Thorn says

      August 18, 2016 at 2:36 am

      You’re too kind, Magi. Thank you!

      Reply

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