Finally got round to framing a few pieces and having them on my wall for a little motivation. The rest of the pieces on my wall are ones which I find inspiring from various different people Sorry the pictures are a little dark, couldn’t use the flash.

Here’s the A2 poster I did for To The Republics ‘Drown EP’ release show. It was my first A2 poster, plenty of very slow photoshop moments whilst creating this before I gave up and did all the text in illustrator and just did the background, and placing everything else in photoshop. Printed awesome

Read on for two more.

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To see the first post on this piece, head over here.

Right… I think after doing a few finishing touches this piece, my first color vector is a wrap! I ended up doing two versions, ESQ. (the face!) named it There Goes The Neighborhood and I liked it so used that and placed it on the second version, in an old school style font (read more to see the text version). This piece along with the M-4 piece I did have made me want to learn illustrator more. Before I found it very annoying as Photoshop has been my primary since I started, and I only opened illustrator for the odd job but I find it quite relaxing, and even though they’re a long process it’s worth it when you see the end results

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I started working on this piece a few weeks ago, purely for practice on Adobe Illustrator. I’ve started trying out illustrator more these days, I find it quite relaxing and a nice change to what I usually do. My aim was to make a pretty aggressive looking rifle look a little more innocent, by using bright colors and breaking it up into softer shapes (bare in mind I changed it a lot). That was inspired by my anti-gun mum, and because I’ve always liked the look of the M-4 and I think it’s a nice rifle to shoot bar the heavy battle trigger. I ended up altering the piece a fair bit to fit in with this ‘If I weren’t a Designer, I Would Be…’ project, which I was going to submit it to as it linked into the Armed Forces. The version you see above is how it would look but without the ‘I Would Be’ text.

…However

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Recently I’ve seen a lot of vectors of people which have smoothly blended skin tones and are half cartoon, half life like. I decided I wanted to give it a go but to keep the skin tones harsh to create an abstract effect. Once I was complete I chose to change the colors to purples/blues to further the abstract look.

This is my first time doing a color vector – as you can see in my blog my others are simple black & white ones with one color to make it pop. I’m no illustrator but I’m trying to get to grips with Ai more. This took me a fair few hours but they were broken up so it wasn’t too bad.

It could do with a clean up but… How did I do?

// Brown Version

// Purple Version

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Maybe you remember one of my first vectors which was similar to this, Starface ‘09, again with Game? Well here’s another one similar, it’s my 5th vector I think. I like using Game because he has a very distinct face… especially with the red star tattoo lol. I wouldn’t say this is 100% finished but my time is up for my own work so I’m not sure when I’ll get to finish it off. As you can see some parts need extra details and other parts need a quick clean up.

Even though this is almost square, it is not a CD cover.

Oh and before I get idiotic comments. No this has no skin tone… I did notice that. Probably because I like to do my vectors like this. I like to keep it very simple, working around the highlights and shadows on the image, within reason. I like using three colors and having it minimalist. That’s me and how I like to do these.

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Sorry been M.I.A for a week or so now. The flu bug got me and knocked me out for a while. Just on my way to recovery now, so projects have just been taken off hold.

Perfect time to unravel another one of my intentionally minimal vectors, this time on the good ol’ Doctor House. I so wish he was real lol I’ll tidy it up sometime so I can get myself a print for my wall.

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