Category: Illustration
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Mini Sketches
I’ve been working on some mini sketches at lunch time. Previously I would sit my 2 year old twins down for lunch and then settle into my own feeding frenzy of news and blog posts. I convinced myself it was a necessary thing to spend some time out of “mommy” mode and read actual blog […]
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Gradient Mesh Cherries
This is an exercise I did to learn to use the gradient mesh tool in illustrator. It was kind of self indulgent really, as it doesn’t do a thing to advance my drawing skills. It’s just a matter of tracing some shapes from a photo and then mapping them out with gradient meshes. The end […]
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Candy Corn Illustration
Just a simple illustration of some candy corn, done more for practice than anything else. I’m trying to concentrate on 2 things these days: Getting better at illustrator, and finishing projects. I’m starting to understand that the quality of line is the single most important thing in vector graphics and the only way to acheive […]
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Yellow Kimono
This illustration is a vectorized kimono, taken from a photo of a kimono from Japan I’ve had since childhood. Basically I was just trying to work on my illustrator skills, trying to get better with the pen tool. I also used the posterize feature in photoshop until I got the shading I wanted. A simple […]
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Bonsai from the National Arboretum
This illustration is based on a photo taken at the National Arboretum in 2007. It’s interesting, I went there yesterday and there was that same tree. It seemed like it was exactly the same. And yet it is alive and growing like any other tree. The National Arboretum has quite an amazing bonsai collection in […]
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Eames Chairs
These are some vector drawings of Eames chairs. Just for practice really. I love looking at Mid Century Modern furniture, and there’s something about the structure of it that lends itself to vector drawing. There’s a great documentary on Charles and Ray Eames, called the Architect and the Painter. Among other things, it tells the […]