to remake this piece, i used the pen tool, the eyedropper, the pencil tool. i had a little difficulty figuring out how to use the pen tool but once i figured it out it was a piece of cake. other than not knowing how to use illustrator all that well i didnt really have many issues although i may have run into more had i tried expirimenting with different tools. altogether i think it went ok. i am excited to learn more about this program so i can use it more efficiently.
I think your illustrator piece actually turned out better than the original, and I can see some small hickups from the pen tool but I think that those add to the design aspect of your piece. I also think you should try playing with line weight some more on this.
ReplyDeleteThis is a cute drawing of an octopus! First thing that came to my mind is how I could see this published in a children's book or a card of some sort. The shapes of color having some wiggle room between themselves and the line is an neat quality to include, and overall the piece is very fun to look at. By sticking to pure solid colors however, a lot of gradients were lost in the transition from the original to the Illustrator version. It might be interesting to do another version, but with added gradients in the background and the spots by messing with opacities.
ReplyDeleteI really would like to see some variation of value and many different layers. There are parts where the spots on the octopus are very gradient in the first drawing, but in the second illustration they are just dots. More attention to detail could be paid to the suckers underneath each arm of the octopus as well. They became big blobs of color instead of individual suckers. This makes me think that you didn't spend as much time as you could have. Either way, I would love to see you focus on different variations of color and value. Making one of the dots on the octopus or the suckers underneath out of 5 different layers instead of two would be far more interesting and would hold true to what the first illustration looks like.
ReplyDeleteDig the way your Illustrator piece approximated the soft brushes with the geometric circles. Also wish I could have seen more of your solid, bold line work come into the final piece.
ReplyDeleteI would have really liked to see the background also recreated in Illustrator! The recreated version was well executed but it some values weren't transferred over, and it ended up looking a little flat. I think adding in those shapes would really give it some depth and add to its playfulness.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really good start. I really like the background lighting and I wish I could have seen in the new piece. I think using a blur effect on each of the spots would help emulate the original piece better. The same process could be used with the background.
ReplyDeleteI'd also agree with some of the previous comments in that I wish the background had been fully rendered in the Illustrator piece. I think it would have really added to the overall drawing. The octopus itself is very nice, and I think he could really benefit from some sort of softening tool. The lines look clean, and playing with the line width could really help to emphasize that.
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