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camomac

macrumors 6502a
Jan 26, 2005
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Left Coast
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ha ha, the old white stag sportswear sign in old town portland...
just down the street from my house.

did you use to live in portland?
 

anim8or

macrumors 65816
Aug 16, 2006
1,362
9
Scotland, UK
i'm thinking of trying to break into the illustration game. i've just started spending serious time on my pictures, and i made me a blog. so far, i've used illustrator almost exclusively.
check it out, any pointers would be appreciated.

http://curtmakespictures.blogspot.com/

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Your work is amazing...... green eyed monster is rearing his head!!!

Keep it up, i see no fault in your work.

The charactures are spot on and well composed images. Nice simple vector work too.
 

A.list.face

macrumors newbie
Jul 25, 2009
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A couple of Lambos I did earlier this year.
 

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rgarjr

macrumors 604
Apr 2, 2009
6,820
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Southern California
Did you use a reference image to these Lambos in AI? How does one go in starting to draw this, do you place the raster image and and start tracing with the pen tool?
 

A.list.face

macrumors newbie
Jul 25, 2009
28
0
Did you use a reference image to these Lambos in AI? How does one go in starting to draw this, do you place the raster image and and start tracing with the pen tool?

Basically. That is what I do. The hard part is using screens, blurs, and gradients to shape it. Here is the outline of the Diablo. I used color burns to help shade it instead of dark blurs with the opacity turned way down. This way changing the car's color is easy.
 

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jegaggin

macrumors newbie
Aug 8, 2010
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System Preferences

I think i suck compared to you guys this took me 4 hours to do -_- tell me what you think about it
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dazzer21

macrumors 6502
Oct 18, 2005
473
4
here are some of mine:

building.jpg

completeley done in illustrator, using reference photos. Was made to look like an artist did pieces of it at a time, and then put it together with tape and push pins on cork board. Final printed size of this was 55" x 26"

-JE

How long did THAT take to do?
 

jbyun04

macrumors 6502a
Aug 31, 2008
556
55
Canada
This was my midterm for Illustrator last year when I was still in school. I just decided to swan dive into gradient mesh, never finished it though.

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CW Jones

macrumors 6502
Nov 24, 2009
301
0
CT
I really dont know how you guy and gals do cars and make them look reflective like that.... I would honestly LOVE to know that haha

This is the first real thing I created in illy. I use to just cop out and use live trace, but after spending about 3 hours working on this I was pretty happy with how it came out.

It was for an olympic poster for my info design class.
 

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BBrandDesign

macrumors member
Feb 28, 2011
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I don't consider myself an illustrator, but more of a designer, because I do more logo, layout and design, using other elements to bring the entire piece together. here is some of my work. the first was assignment for my design class. it was to create a granola box, so i took my band's name (timmy kue and the fatherless boys) and made Kue Bars. the second is the logo for a wakeboarding video i'm making for my group of friends. and the third is some work from my actual day job, here at the Pizza Factory corporate office. Hope you guys like!

Off course I liked it and appreciate you for it. Really your work is amazing. I liked Pizza Factory Corporate Office so much. It looks so pretty and testy. Thanks for nice sharing.
 

graphicsward

macrumors member
Aug 22, 2009
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0
Mustard & Marmalade

some really cool stuff everyone, heres some promos i did for my upcoming web comic.
 

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oscuh

macrumors 6502
Apr 27, 2007
314
0
Michigan
I love how this thread keeps popping back up! Some really nice work... has me inspired to do some more... in the meantime, here are a few more of my pieces...

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