Illustrator FUN!

Hey there back again thought I put some thing up that has been done on illustrator again.


The last few weeks I have been helping to build a new student intranet at the college I go to. and this is some thing that was built for an image slideshow.

so this was created following a tutorial and all that was used to do it was creating a line then useing the 3d option in illustrator to extrude it out into the back ground.

So this is the final look for it imported it into Photoshop add the text to it all. well if you can make it out the text is  from a rule pack for one of the games workshop tournaments. Hopefully no will notice that :) this was a fun and stress piece of work to create as I wasn't too sure on what to do for the back ground but i thought i keep it simple and have it a see through bg. 

So an Update

Well I know I haven't been that much on here for the past few weeks and like I said before Uni is taking a lot of time up so I am going to say this. I know we all have our own personal things happening in the outside world and  at time those things end up taking over everything. I am not worried if you can not find time to post some thing ever week. This for me is meant to be fun and enjoyable and if you need to take time away from this that fine.

So on a brighter note Here is a some thing I have done in Illustrator.

was going to use this for something but ended up deciding not to use it. but still looks cool

Abstracted

I guess one of my favourite things to create digitally are abstract pieces. And most things come around with practicing with some techniques.

^^This image reminds me of a flower. There is something about, with its appearance of layers that I really like. I like the pink outline as well. I think it is simple, but it also has a depth due to the overlapping parts.

^^This image, is different, but still was made through experimentation on Photoshop. Mostly with swirling the cloud effect. I like the smoothness to it.

First Digital Drawing?

So, a few weeks ago I bought a new graphics tablet, because I really need to get into drawing, through my computer. Not for any reason really, just so that I have that option. It has always been something I really wanted to do. Especially when I am starting to get requests for Lion King/ Balto style original characters, which are EVERYWHERE when you join any community based around American animation.

So have Vitani. She is a character from The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride. She is part of a group of lions called the 'Outsiders', who are banished from the Pride Lands by Simba, because they believe Scar (Simba's uncle) is the rightful king. Scar, was killed at the end of the first movie, and was the ' bad guy'. So he has a band of followers, who are against Simba, for murdering Scar.

If the first Lion King move, was like Shakespeare's Hamlet, then Simba's Pride is more Romeo & Juliet. Vitani is my favourite character in the second movie, and I just wish that she had a bigger part in the movie. Hopefully, as I practice more, I will post some more lion's as a comparison. The aim is to get it better by Christmas, cause I have a lot OC based card ideas.

But, we'll see how it goes.

To Infinity and Beyond

Sorry, that is the wrong space reference. This week we are giving ourselves the challenge of creating something Star Wars related. I used this chance to challenge myself to create something 100% digital, and so the Death Star was born (pardon the pun).

Playing around with different textures, and what started off life as a Malteser, actually looks not too bad. If you know me, then you know I try to stay away from digital art, mostly because it is the area of art where I am least  experienced, and to be honest, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable. But I powered through 3 Photoshop shut downs, and finally finished something that looks a bit like what was intended.

The original intention of painting something ended in disaster, when I discovered that a certain sibling of mine, who is sitting her Standard Grades, commandeered most of my paints. So this idea of a digital piece didn't come around as organically as I make out. Ah well, the end result is what matters.

My Week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

So yea been a very busy week reflecting on what has been happening through out

It's been a long week

Well what can I say, it has been a long week for me as I am now starting uni again so not been ale to do something for this week. I was working on the idea of doing some drawings and character type stuff but haven't had a chance to do that. But I still manged to find some thing that was created a few weeks back that I haven't shown :) . This was created in Illustrator and as you can see it is just really the same monster repeated over again but this was a fun one that was done. Originally done to be a wacky desktop image it only lasted for a couple of days. My PC didn't agree with it having a trail following any thing that was opened when i moved it to someplace else was not fun. But this image is!

Sue Smells a Journey

Today I am showing a piece of abstract art, which is taken from something I uploaded to Deviant Art, although I am unsure this is going to work. I am currently using one of the PCs at work to post this. If it doesn't work, I'll fix it when I get home tonight.

It is supposed to representing smell and journey. I put these two things together because I feel that they are interlinked. Mostly because if you smell something, it can take you on a journey. Even if it is an emotional one, where it takes you back to a period of your life.

Again this is a mixed media piece. With patterns originally painted with arcylics, and then distorted using photoshop. As I have said previously, this is the kind of art I seem most happy with. Because it has the traditional aspects, of which I love, mixed with the fact that the meaning is whatever the viewer deciphers it to be. And to me, that is the magical thing about art.

Silly Airships

So airship this week sounds fun! I thought I would throw in some additional challenges for myself this week. the first one was to use a software that I neglect rather often and that is Illustrator along with that challenge I thought I would record the creation of the image as well, so that is am other thing to do is to get that sorted out and edited down.

As you can see its more of a silly go at this type of thing using bright colours to show that and happiness to it as well. Created through the use of shapes and different gradient effects on it. It has been a while since I have last used Illustrator properly but this week been dabbling with it early on and thought I would give it a good shot. Just need to find some magazines I have that have some tutorials for using this software and practice them to get a better hang of it.

Blue

So here we are again another week come and pass. Here we have an image that was created early on in the week (top) which I have just finished sorting out and creating the other image (bottom)

digital creation

Hey, once again it's Friday.

Well this week I have been trying my hand at web comics and creating them fully through Photoshop. It's not easy as I discovered when i was doing this. It was my first attempt at this using Photoshop so it might not look the best but it was a fun to do and now I have 4 others waiting to be done now.

 

Like I said not the best thing in the world but I would say a good start at doing this stuff. All done through Photoshop and a graphic tablet (Wacom for the win). A quick run through of the process. 1) blue outline showing what I was going to draw. 2) Went over it in black on a new layer. 3) New layer under that adding colour to the image. very simple approach to it but it works. That is me for this week and I will have some to the those over web comics done for this or something else. Till then Cya.