Vector Illustrations

Illustrator CS3

Over the past few days in class, I have been listening to all of my fellow classmates rave about Illustrator. Until this year, I had only briefly used Illustrator, became lost without an Eraser or Selection tools, and switched back to Photoshop. However, after hearing my friends comments, I decided to give a college try. Coincidentally, my Photoshop class has just started going over the advantages of vector shapes, and how to create them in PS. After browsing through the chapter, I found a very good link to a tutorial site called vexels.com . I Looked over some of the tuts posted there and then tried my hand and vectoring a photo of my brothers and I on a chair lift at Mt. Hood Meadows this December. After about 3 hours worth of pen-tooling, I had a respectable result. To tell the truth, it's actually kind of therapeutic. This came after reading my XHTML and AS3 books for the previous 4 hours, so the decrease in brainpower needed to complete the task was welcomed. As it turns out, I really like this style of art. I am looking to refine my skills a bit more on some other images, like the one I did of my brother (again) at Crystal Mountain (right). This work has some text and a little more artistic feel to it, rather than just tracing an image. I really look up to the people out there creating completely full peices of art using only the pen tool and their imagination. Soon I will be there.

For some inspiration, log onto www.behance.net and browse through the projects or artists there, some amazing stuff for sure. I liked this :
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Playful/57260
Awesome Color and 3d work. Imagine the time invested in that one.


Visit my Behance Site for higher resolution versions of most of these posts, as well as links to some really awesome art and design work.
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