It all starts with a beautifully crafted cinematic scene. It’s usually a thriller movie where you get more and more tense as the scenes follow each other, you anticipate that the antagonist is just coming slowly. You don't know exactly where and when, but you know for sure that he will be there.

In a wide shot of a pretty mundane location, absurdly in a bright daytime where it defies the rules of stereotypical thriller movies you get the chills go down on your spine in this scene. It’s weird, it’s absurd, it’s pretty ordinary but you know something’s going to go down here.

So, “Motel” is one of those scenes.

Let’s go a bit technical on how I made this particular piece in case you were wondering.

This time instead of Vectornator, I wanted to give “Pixelmator” a try to create this one. Main reason I switched is because I like using my Mac instead of my iPad while creating these pieces. On my M1 Mac, after about 50 layers on Vectornator my Mac struggles a bit. So I thought I should give another program a try.

Started with a motel sign. Very Americana, classic typeface on a series of boxes which is illuminated by a fluorescent light in nighttime. Searched for many motel signs in United States, this design was the only one that stood out to me to convey the feeling of an old, rusty and shady motorway hotel I was going for.

Next was the motel itself. It needed to be very ordinary - mundane. I looked at many motel photos, synthesized different designs and came up with a very flat one.

After this step, main composition was just as I wanted it to be. Now it was time to add some details to the piece so it would be more realistic, more dramatic.

“Motel” is the 8th piece minted under the “drama” series and listed on Foundation.

Thank you for reading 🙏