Illustrations

[ganimede]

I've had very little work to do at college for the past few weeks so I've been playing around with Illustrator quite a bit. Generally, I've been going through tutorials I found on a website called vectortuts+ so I've been trying out different techniques and tools. Some of the results have been a bit hit and miss but these are some of the pieces I

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[ftmichael]

Yay, so much nifty art! They all look so good! And you do have some very good greetings-card designs in here. :) And recreating that pencil drawing of yours is a great idea! I can't wait to see the finished result.

[ganimede]

I actually used the thank you cookies image as a card last week. I gave it to the librarians in the art and design library because they've been very helpful and supportive and generally nice and chatty with me.

I did a lot of work on the John Lennon picture in D's class and he happened to see it and said it was very impressive. I showed him the original piece and he said I'd managed to capture both the essence of the original as well as the art style it was copying. He said the only downside to doing it digitally is that it will lack the paper texture - apparently the Yellow Submarine film that initiated the style was all animated on paper which I wasn't aware of at all. I can easily add a paper texture to the digital image though so hopefully that will help cover that aspect. One thing I really like about redoing the picture digitally is that I can correct all the mistakes I made in the original! There's quite a few :-/

[ftmichael]

Aww, yay! That's an excellent use for the thank-you cookies. :) And yay for the librarians being so helpful and nice.

Yay also for D being so impressed with your John Lennon piece, both the original and the digital work. It is nice to be able to go back over stuff digitally and tweak things you wish you'd done differently. And if you can get a good paper texture on there, there'll be no down side at all! :)

[ganimede]

There were several things I was disappointed with as soon as I'd finished it, such as the stick held in the top right hand that was supposed to be a guitar except there wasn't enough room for it, the hat that was there because I couldn't think of anything else and the dove that just looks a bit rubbish. I've now been able to make the dove look like a dove, I've put the guitar in it where the hat was originally and the stick has been replaced by a heart. Some time later, I realised that the rainbow at the bottom disappears in between his legs - for some reason, I forgot to join each side up in the middle - so that has always bugged me.

I made a vintage style travel poster from a tutorial a few weeks ago and that has a paper texture added on the top so I can use the same technique.

[bella_cheval]

Neato! I love the sword one, that would make a pretty good tattoo!

[ganimede]

I didn't even think of it as a tattoo. It'd be have to be quite a large tat though! Wherever would you put it? ;)