Literal Kid 1988
Part two of the occasional series, 'Literal Kid Through The Ages', this time from when I was six.
I quite enjoyed making Literal Kid 1982 (if you haven't seen it, it's what I'd look like if I'd been born a record instead of a boy), so I decided to make it into a series. This one's inspired by old computer games mostly, and also a bit by early jungle albums, although of course they weren't about until 9 years later. Artistic license, isn't it.
Fact fans - I made almost all of this using layer styles in photoshop, so I could carry on editing the gradients and stuff right till the end. I also used a desaturated, halftoned version of the whole thing as a multiplied overlay for a bit of cheaply-printed character, combined with a colour-burned old piece of paper to give it a nice warm, aged look. Because sometimes late 80's retro-futurism's just a bit too cold, know what I mean?