Blue Bomber
01-11-2002, 06:02 PM
OK, so it's not Photoshop, but it's still made by Adobe! :rolleyes:
These two are my very first pics done in Illustrator (not including book lessons). I did them completely from memory, so it took a while. ;)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/pcc2a6b6c3a09972389c9166344c3b904/fe01bd4a.jpg.orig.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p1335dc7a5b1765829bf4587445defe7a/fe01bd41.jpg.orig.jpg
This one was done with the box sitting in front of me:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid27/p525d186e4a55de5b583078aceceaa6f1/fe1d57a7.jpg.orig.jpg
These four were "traced". I put the pic underneath and drew over it. "Tracing" isn't quite the same in Illustrator as it is with regular paint programs (or even by hand). I'll explain that next.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/pfd2fa402192d5ba06ff2976657e90fbf/fe01bd28.jpg.orig.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p003d42343c770e485ec27e16ac8d2cbb/fe01bd32.jpg.orig.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/peda4ba3e84f28156a1087a4f59725fa9/fe01bd39.jpg.orig.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p1aa8652f50d084e0b15983f47642e443/fe01bbd2.jpg.orig.jpg
I kinda like Illustrator better than Photoshop because it allows you to be much more creative. You draw the pics from scratch. Instead of drawing with something like a pencil or paint brush, you draw points that connect into lines which you can bend and stretch and connect to each other to create objects. To color them in, you can either use a fill (one color) or a gradient mesh (colors blending into each other).
Most of my pics use gradient meshes. They're kinda hard to work with in the beginning. I guess the best way to picture them is as a big net or grid inside an object's outline, with each intersection having its own color. You can stretch the intersections and lines any way you want to create the object's color.
The best part of Illustrator is that the pics aren't measured in pixels, meaning you can resize and stretch them with absolutely no loss in image quality.
These two are my very first pics done in Illustrator (not including book lessons). I did them completely from memory, so it took a while. ;)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/pcc2a6b6c3a09972389c9166344c3b904/fe01bd4a.jpg.orig.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p1335dc7a5b1765829bf4587445defe7a/fe01bd41.jpg.orig.jpg
This one was done with the box sitting in front of me:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid27/p525d186e4a55de5b583078aceceaa6f1/fe1d57a7.jpg.orig.jpg
These four were "traced". I put the pic underneath and drew over it. "Tracing" isn't quite the same in Illustrator as it is with regular paint programs (or even by hand). I'll explain that next.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/pfd2fa402192d5ba06ff2976657e90fbf/fe01bd28.jpg.orig.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p003d42343c770e485ec27e16ac8d2cbb/fe01bd32.jpg.orig.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/peda4ba3e84f28156a1087a4f59725fa9/fe01bd39.jpg.orig.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p1aa8652f50d084e0b15983f47642e443/fe01bbd2.jpg.orig.jpg
I kinda like Illustrator better than Photoshop because it allows you to be much more creative. You draw the pics from scratch. Instead of drawing with something like a pencil or paint brush, you draw points that connect into lines which you can bend and stretch and connect to each other to create objects. To color them in, you can either use a fill (one color) or a gradient mesh (colors blending into each other).
Most of my pics use gradient meshes. They're kinda hard to work with in the beginning. I guess the best way to picture them is as a big net or grid inside an object's outline, with each intersection having its own color. You can stretch the intersections and lines any way you want to create the object's color.
The best part of Illustrator is that the pics aren't measured in pixels, meaning you can resize and stretch them with absolutely no loss in image quality.