Developing a Legend for Digital Mixed Media

Because I produce art work in so many different ways, I developed an explanatory caption to provide information about the tools used to produce a particular work of art.  I first developed the image above at the top of the post.  It is beautiful to me, but is too ornate and too large to accomplish the goal of revealing information.  As an alternative I designed the middle image, but it, too, was too large.  I am currently using the bottom image since it does not distract from the image it explains.  I like the first image very much and hope I can find a suitable use for it.  Actually I think that it will appear as a banner on this site (stay tuned).  

Lately I have been switching between iPad art applications to capture the best feature of each.  It is becoming more important to explain that three different art apps and photoshop were used in the same way I frequently need to explain that I sketched an image on paper and perfected it in Photoshop.  Digital mixed media can involve many stages and tools that are fun to switch between.  On my iPad I have ArtStudio, Brushes, CPencils, ArtRage, SketchBook, Adobe Ideas, Quill, Zen Brush, iDraw, ASKetch, Sketch Club (my latest favorite), neu.Draw, Inspire Pro, Paint Studio, Procreate, Sketchbook...and there are more.  This is why it is impossible to be without inspiration in the world of developing digital design.  

The need for design organization is further required due to a marvelous phenomenon - the generosity of the online design world and the need to give credit to people when they allow the use of their textures, styles and fonts.

The typeface used in the designs above, Alt Lautus, was created by Andreas Leonidou at Behance, a great motivational design portfolio site.  Check out Andreas' work there, and Alt Lautus can be downloaded at http://www.mediafire.com/?g58yah2olp265f4.