Anne Lehman
Digital Illustration project 1:
I mostly used the pencil tool, I had a little trouble getting started with this project and ended up changing my illustration. I've never used Illustrator before this and I did get frustrated a lot while trying to figure out this program, but I do see myself making steady progress if I keep working with it. I'd like to work with color layering more with this piece for sure.
I actually really enjoy this piece's transition to a vector form. It keeps the feel of the light watercolors and inks from the original, which I think helps sell the work and keeps cohesiveness with the presumed intentions of the artist to have a mellow, soft piece. I also am fond of the varying brush width of the blobfish, eyelashes, and general linework. One suggestion I would make would be to play with staggered opacity and texture; the pink spot on the background has a little bit of texture and I would’ve liked to see that technique used elsewhere in the picture.
ReplyDeleteyou did a good job with the line work and keeping it exact to the original but i maybe would have selected out a little more of some of the tonal changes.
ReplyDeleteI really like the transition to illustrator with this piece. The blocks of solid color really work with your lines, even without the natural texture of traditional media. I think you could have even gone farther with those changes in color and tone by layering some more, but I think you did a really good job.
ReplyDeleteIf you were really trying to replicate the first illustration, I think that you need to pay more attention to where the value shifts and where the texture shows up in the color areas. There are so many things happening in the first illustration that I really wanted to see in the second illustration. Making more layers is a good start, and also mapping out where the textures are and where it gets more washy and more solid from the watercolor. I think that your colors are a little bit off as well, and they could be a lot more true to the first illustration. Using the eyedropper tool was something Lindsay said we could use and I'm wondering if you maybe didn't use it? If you didn't, that would explain why they're a little bit different. But I think that even when you're not using the eyedropper tool you can still try to find the same colors from your reference point.
ReplyDeleteCute illustration! The subdued pastel pallete works well in this piece. Some colors seem to get lost in the re-creation, sadly. It would be fun to see that gradient between light and dark pink in the slime(?) dripping down her face, and in the background as well. Linework can be tedious in Illustrator! I applaud your patience.
ReplyDeleteP.s. I love the blobfish on her head.
I would've liked to see more of the gradient that you have in the top of the head of the original, and maybe some smoother linework in the hair. But the blob looks good in vector form!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy the colors in your piece, as well as the style and varieties in the linework. Even though the vector art is different from your original, I find both pieces appealing in their own right. While the original looks more soft and hazey, the redraw looks almost like pop art. I would say this was a really good redraw, and to maybe just keep playing around with your lines.
ReplyDeleteWow! The transition from the original and the new piece is very interesting! The original piece is very soft and light whereas the re-created piece is bolder. In both of them I really enjoy your use of color! Although I really like both of them, It might be fun to experiment with opacity and gradients!
ReplyDeleteAll in all I think you did really good with your remake! The only two issues that are bugging me are how the colors in the remake don't really fade the same way they did in the original- they feel a lot more like large, solid objects. The other being that the 'jam' (for lack of a better word!) on her head is missing the red highlights that were in the original.
ReplyDeleteI'm really digging the way this came out in Illustrator; it's the same piece, but with different, sharper quality that I think really has added to it. The gray background is a nice touch, but I think I'm seeing some of the original peek out in the bottom left corner?
ReplyDeleteI really like the drawing but I feel that some parts should have been more 3D. The picture can be more 3D, for example adding a shadown under her chin. I feel that the hair are just a plain white flat surface with some black lines in the middle. I love the jelly animal/monster on the top of the character head
ReplyDeleteI think you're getting really close! Here are a couple things that might help make it a bit easier to get some of the line quality the way you want it. I think in the original you have a really fluid line -- and in order to get that in Illustrator, you could use the pen tool (OR.... ) you could use the smooth tool that is undeneath the pencil tool in the tool bar. Just hover over it and you'll see a pencil with a bunch of lines on it - this helps smooth out some of the kinks in linework, and might be helpful for getting the same kind of line quality that you had in the original. I also think that you could play with some of hte transparency / opacity options on the colors so you could get the painterly effect a little more! Where the red part of the blob fish is in the original could be done with another layer in the illustrator version - maybe the transition could be done with a bit of a transparency shift. Or- maybe in the large painted sections in the back, you could make a bit of a transparency shift there in the illustrator version so you could get credit for the texture that comes through. The blobfish guy's linework got a lot thicker in the illustrator version - I think you could just change the thickness of it with the stroke tool to make it seem more like the original as well!
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