Hello, everyone!
After my last post, I figured I've never actually shared my vector illustrations on here, so I decided to share this. It was a project about a battery add, I called it "Illuminate your World" or something cheesy like that.
Working with vectors on Illustrator isn't my go-to style, but I'm pretty happy with this one's result.
Progress
I did this one's idea sketch on some spare watercolor paper I had. Watercolor's always my go-to medium, even when sketching, haha.
After scanning the sketch and putting it under the artboard with low opacity, I started off with vectoring the face. It looks creepy at this point, doesn't it? Hahaha.
I'm one of those people who slaps gradients on everything at every chance I get. But it works for this one, so, it's kind of justified I suppose?
It's really not the same as working on a digital painting. Look at all the shapes on the layers panel. I like to work in details, so I end up having a thousand shapes there. At least I've learnt to organize them in groups and layers :D Had a hard time picking the arms' and hands' color there. I don't want the kid to be a zombie or have necrosis but it looked like so.
After more gradients as lights and shadows, which saved the look of the illustration in my opinion, I moved on to the sky. I didn't know how to approach the clouds for a while, what shapes to use, what perspective to put them in... At last, I looked up some references and worked on from there.
Finally, it was getting closer to what I had in mind, with as I said before, a thousand shape layers there. When working with vectors, I always fear that things will look unnatural and unlively but I think I dodged that bullet on this one. Thank you, half-transparent gradients and layer blending modes...
That's it. Not my usual thing to do, but this is how I often approach vectoral illustrations. Don't worry, I organize the layers now, haha. This one has been an experience. But I'm pretty happy with it and I'm hoping you'll like it too.
See you on the next one!
Haha, now that's a comeback! :D
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Es totalmente increíble tu trabajo. Eres genial, y el sentido del humor con que escribes también es fabuloso. Creo que todos tenemos nuestro sello personal en lo que hacemos y por lo que leí, el tuyo o uno de ellos es, el uso de gradientes. Me encanta mucho el dibujo aunque no soy buena. En la parte digital estoy muy en pañales, pero espero algún día no muy lejano ser capaz de hacer algo de este tipo. Gracias por compartir tu trabajo y mucho éxito para ti @isangelous
Thank you for the support and your nice comments <3 Unfortunately I don't speak Spanish, so we both will be using a translator here, eheh. I suppose, as you said, one of my personal signs is using soft gradients.
If this is what you want to do, then keep on working! You'll get there <3
Thank you again!
Thank you very much, sorry I wrote in Spanish. Sometimes I don't comment so I don't have to go out and translate somewhere else. I missed that haha. Thank you very much
Ahahah no problem. Google Translate is a bliss on those situations :D
😅 Yes, it is true. I hope to continue seeing your excellent works
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Great illustration dear @isangelous , really amazing you are a well graphics designer. I also want to become.
Ahahah thank youuu! I did study Graphic Design but I sure am not a designer, I'm just a mere illustrator, hehe. Studying the major has taught me a lot, I cannot deny.
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Really nice! I'm really impressed! 😄
Yaaay great to hear that! Thank you! :D
I love to see more vector artists here!
Yay! I'm not always a vector artist per se but I do use it from time to time. I've recently had a simple vector task, I'm going to post that soon as well <3
great! :D
I'll wait to see it! :D
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Thank you! Happy to see you liked it! I'm tryin to post almost every day when I do, I rarely get any activity on them but eh, I'll keep trying :D Thank you for the support too!!!
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Thanks for sharing the process on how you made this! Bookmarked in case I wanted an inspiration after booting up Illustrator 👀
Oooh glad to be of help! Sorry it's not very informative :D I just used the screenshots I took to show my friends :D Next time I do something on illustrator, I'll be sure to record the steps :D Maybe some progress videos? Hmmm... That's giving me ideas :D
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