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For my third illustration of the playstation controller I modelled it in 3D software, shaded it, did the lighting, rendered it and took the rendering into photoshop, where I basically played around with masks, layering and brushes. In the end I was quite afraid of having over worked the final piece, because it does feel a bit loaded, but I wanted to deviate from the original rendering as far as possible.Â
These are 2 approaches on illustrating a playstation controller. While relying on vectors and textures in illustrator for one of them I chose to use brushes in photoshop for the other one. Both of the methods had their own difficulties. As in for the vector one it was a challenge to bring some life and movement to it, while drawing the other approach in perpective really was a challenge in technique for itself.
This week I attempted a portrait. This is Robert Mueller, who is currently head of the Special Counsel Investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It was was my goal to really capture the determination in his face. I took a photo into illustrator and started with the basic shape of his face, added lines, wrinkels, and shadowing. Especially the shadowing challenged me because it had to look natural and effortless instead of like he had fallen into a muddy puddle face forward. Also figuring out the right contrasts of the colours was a bit difficult. How dark the lines, the shadows and the highlights have to be, to look realistic.
Another rather simple stylized vector illustration. I really had fun making this one because I enjoyed the motif a lot. I like slight dark yet funny topics.Â
This time I tried to stick to a very simplified style in shapes as well as in colours. Instead I focused on the composition of the elements. A family trip through “crystal mountains” actually was something I dreamed about some days ago. I like to push myself out of my comfort zone and found that I really enjoy surrealistic colours and content.
This is called “sequential art/drawing”, which means to portray a sequence of things happening. I chose a rather comedic story, which was inspired by the rarely used tennis balls in my room I saw from where I was sitting. For this project I uses graphite, ink and oil pastels. After sketching, I traced the lines with ink, coloured the picture in with oil pastels and after traced the lines one more time. Of this sequence I like the last drawing the most, because of the composition, colours and texture I managed to achieve.
My second Illustration I made using Cinema4D combined with Photoshop, and I really enjoyed it! Like the last time I arranged some objects (some of which I already modelled for previous projects) and shaded them. Lighting was really important for this one. After the image was rendered I threw it into photoshop and added grain, gradients and some colour correction.Â
Today I tried a different method of digital illustration. I love doing 3D Design and was inspired by illustrators and 3D artists like for example beeple, who make extraordinary illustrations using 3D Software and Photoshop. I took a class on skillshare, to understand the workflow between Cinema4D and Photoshop better. So I essentially built the Motif in Cinema4D, played around with materials and lighting, rendered it and added some texture, gradients, noise to it and crunched the levels a little. I’m fairly satisfied with the endproduct, and I will definitely explore this field of illustration more in times to come.
Another illustration I did on my drawing tablet. Because I struggled with coming up with ideas on what to draw I just chose to random numbers and looked them up on “PHIL McANDREW'S BIG LIST OF STUFF TO DRAW”. The words I got were “cannibal” and “alien”. So I that’s what I drew.
I really start to enjoy working on my graphic tablet, as everybody says, practicing a lot does seem to do the trick. I still have a lot of practicing to do, but I defintiley have fun and drawing on the tablet kind of calms me down a lot. Nice side effect :) This one isn’t finished yet. I started by tracing a face with simple lines with the help of a photo and kind of just went at it colouring it in from memory.
I really like the clean look of vector illustration. And I want to get better at it so I decided to play around with shapes in illustrator. I enjoy illustrating figures and humans, as well as stylizing them. The motif was inspired by one of my favorite shows.
Some studies I did during my drawing class with a live model. This is called sequential drawing. The model poses for a maximum of 3 minutes, the goal is to capture the movement. I never did this before so it was interesting having to pay attention to the overall concept instead of the realistic portrayal of details. Done with charcoal on paper.
Sofa
This time I tried to challenge myself by using my graphic tablet for illustrating. I still have to get used to the feel of it, but am definitely proud of my results so far. I also plan on exploring the realm of brushes more, as I want to get better and more comfortable with the graphic tablet.
Currently I’m designing a page for a colouring book for an assignment. The theme is “What does Vancouver Island mean to you?”. Because I’m only here for one semester, I’m still not familiar with a lot of things around here. So I decided to just make my constant state of being overwhelmed by all of the amazing nature and things to do here, my motif. Because I oftentimes feel like 4 months isn’t nearly enough to experience the whole scope of the island. I’m trying my best though.
This time I decided to just draw the objects in my field of view. For this style (cross contour, cross hatching) I actually got inspired by my drawing class, where we’re supposed to draw a still life combining the cross contour and mass gesture techniques. This sketch is plain sharpie on paper.
The Lucky Penny
Today I found a lucky penny, this sketch pretty much displays how I felt. While I’m busy working on assignments and doing outdoors activites It is critical to still think about how blessed I am for being able to do what I do. And to be grateful for it.
Next in Line
For this assignment the task was to come up with 20 words (any words) and pick two random ones to connect in an illustration. The words I picked were “Limbo” and “sixteen”. I started with roughly sketching my idea, which I implemented in illustrator afterwards.