Posts Tagged ‘vector artwork’
One Good thing about Music…
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009Pregonaut: Stages…
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Decided i had been neglecting illustrator so i decided to do re-do one of the pergonauts that was kinda muddy in the sketchbook. Below are some of the jpgs i saved along the way.
On be of my favorite things about the digital world is it allows for unlimited versioning and states. You can work for days and weeks on something and then decide you liked where it was 4 months ago and go back, if you have a saved older version. This is great for several reasons; as well as bad for those of us stricken with indecision [this guy])
this is the initial illustrator outline ontop of the scanned sketchbook page. I find the best apporach for me is to from most general to most specific, which is different from physical drawings where i tend to work comprehensively building everything up at the same time
Here you can see all the individual shapes. At this point depending on what the end game plan is things can be done a bit differently. In this case i decided to use the path finder pallet to remove unseen vectors. That is to say removing shapes that are hidden by shapes on top. The Pathfinder palette is an awesome tool.
Adding basic color information to start to get and idea of the pallet that will work best.
Fun with silhouettes…
At this point i kinda started to loose interest. However i went in and added some basic areas to apply shaping to to help suggest some volume and a light source. I did all the shadow with the pencil tool which can be a really handy tool as well, especially if you leave ‘edit strokes’ active you can generalize some shapes with the pen tool and then adjust them by drawing over them with the pencil tool.
Type type:
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
ting an ting
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
fun with type… sort of…
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Ego and the id(iot)
Playing around with the type paths and blended objects. Def endless possibilities. second from the bottom i like as it feels almost watercolor-ish to me and thats a cool thing since its all vector.
Its pretty awesome, that I’m and IDIOT kinda of way, that i made it through 4 years of college proudly not being able to turn a computer on, let alone make it do shit. If some had just mentioned it wasn’t going to be a passing phase like the calculator watch (which i9 was sure was gonna take off big!) I might have taken a bit more of interest. Oh the blinding ignorance of the self assured youth… I can now 95% of the time turn the computer on so i got that going for me!
its gold jerry.
Monday, August 31st, 2009Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently is the hard reality one faces when they have what feels like a good idea; but are at a lose for how to maximize it. It seems like something a good comic goes through all the time; how does one go about extracting the full potential of an idea, instead of just going for the easy but shallow one liner.
Sometimes a stone is just a stone, sometimes it’s hiding the statue of David. But how many Sculptures passed it saying ‘eh that stones not fit for the task’, until Michelangelo saw David in it?
After a trip punctuated by generous amounts of gold bond, i got to playing around with gold bond in my mind. Eventually mixing the idea of its intended purpose with the idea of using it to quell the over exuberance of a star struck fan. Gold bond stops jock itch, star struck fans jock the star, thus; ’stops the itch to jock’, you’re cool all day.
below is a quick mock up. It failed to really do much partially due to the text being so small and the only hint at the fact there some sort of joke beyond wearing a big image of a gold bond bottle on your chest. Did i mention it was a tee shirt idea? No? it was an idea for a t-shirt.
as I see it Jokes are made up of {the set up + the punch line}+ the delivery*. At issue here is less the need to move beyond the obvious one liner, and more that the one liner is much less obvious then it should be, to be a good one liner. What there is is an idea, which may be worth something or may not be.
In the end this is most likely a shelved thought best forgotten about. However when i came up with it i was sure there was gold some where in there. Some people spend their lives singularly focused on one idea, hoping to mine the gold they know to be inside; some find it. Many more do not. I’m not sure if there is a time limit how long it is one should spend investigating an idea before its shelved in hopes pursuing a new idea that may be more fruitful.
Although ‘keeps you cool all day’ may help things out.