I did this commission recently. It's my first ever full size, full
colour vector illustration! And yes, that means the first time I made a
full piece of artwork in Illustrator! Well, it wasn't meant to be so.
It's just that I was commissioned to make a billboard featuring some
cute animal with a wide, exaggerated smile (client runs a dental
clinic), and when I was told the size spec...well, I was stumped! I
can't possibly paint it in Photoshop because if I paint it in actual
size, it'd just crash my comp and I can't really have them blow it up
either because it's just going to look icky and pixellated. I counseled
Stephen and he said to use vector because that's the only graphics
format that can be scaled up without any lossiness. I was like, oh but
are you MAD!?? I have never done anything like this before. I mean,
sure I've fooled around in AI quite a lot but at that point all I've
only ever made lineart (which I'd later colour in Photoshop).
It
was rather difficult! I whined to Stephen a lot and it was a lot of trial and error. I learned a lot
from this picture. I supposed turned out well in the end because the
client was happy enough with me to give me repeat commission :D
(my goodness, I really ought to update my blog a lot more often!)
3 comments:
Cute, (but all those TEETH)! WOW, that's really great for a first time with illustrator, which I find SO DIFFICULT!
We will be having another round of Moleskine exchange soon if you are interested.
Thank you! I would love to! where do I sign up?
yes, Illustrator has a massive learning curve! but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty fun! I didn't believe it at first. lol
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