"Show Girls" Illustration

Ken Block's Ford Fiesta

Original sketch

Preliminary tracing/colouring

Still have a bit of aways to go before this car is completed. There is more tracing to been done regarding the car's structure and then there's the decal tracing, which could be a whole days job in and of itself.

Punk Rocker Illustration

Initial Sketch

Finished product

F1 Poster: Monaco Grand Prix

Using the F1 car asset I made earlier, I built a poster promoting the Monaco Grand Prix, just for fun. The  streaks of light were made by creating a rectangle, cinching in either the two left or right hand points to narrow it down, copying the streak and blurring it to make it look like it's glowing. This was all built using Adobe Illustrator.

Illustrator Tutorial: Batteries

Haven't done an Illustrator tutorial in what feels like a LONG time. This one is pretty quick and easy to accomplish, but it still yields an impressive outcome. This tutorial utilizes the 3D effect in Illustrator, which I haven't used since the "Wine label" post for DMA455.

Tutorial link: http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/quick-tip-how-to-illustrate-3d-power-cells/

Ada Wong digital paint

So this is the first time I've ever done some serious digital painting. I decided to choose Ada Wong from the "Resident Evil" franchise just simply because I'm a fan of "Resident Evil". As always, I start out with a drawing of Ada Wong, re-touch the image in Photoshop, and then I begin to paint. Overall, I feel it's not a bad first attempt, I would've like the face to have turned out a little bit better for a future attempt as it's one of the most crucial aspects for creating attractive female characters. Other than that, I'm satisfied with the outcome.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: Futuristic Portrait

This was a really intense Photoshop tutorial. The results are less than spectacular due to the fact that this is the first time I'v ever done something so intense in Photoshop. I'm sure if I do this tutorial a second or third time, I might get the portrait to look better. Link to tutorial: Futuristic Portrait

Top image is the before picture, the bottom is the after photo.

Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Headphones

So out of all the Illustrator tutorial I completed thus far, I have to say, this one is probably the coolest and  most challenging one yet. The final product of the tutorial is fantastic; you get the feel of a 3D object (i.e. the headphones) without using the 3D feature that Illustrator provides. I added a few features of my own just because I can, like the mp3 player, the headphone chord, the music play head, the background gradient and my own colour palette for the headphones. The link to the tutorial is posted below.

Headphones_tutorial

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: "Top Gun" badge: Final Product

So after finishing the "Top Gun" badge in Illustrator, I brought it into Photoshop to add some extraneous features to the badge like a drop shadow and a gradient overlay (because gradients are AWESOME!!) so the badge would stand out more from the background. I also added a subtle gradient to the background.

Adobe Illustrator tutorial: "Top Gun" badge

So I found another cool tutorial on Adobe Illustrator via their facebook page. The tutorial was on how to create the "Top Gun" badge. I'm quite pleased with the turnout, the tutorial was very effective. I'm especially pleased with the metallic texture on the typefaces.

Discovery week 3: Heavy Metal drag and drop

Here's a modified version of my drag and drop assignment for week 3's discovery assignment.

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The result of an interesting Adobe Illustrator tutorial

The tutorial can be found here....

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Nissan Flash Advertisement

Nissan Flash Advertisement

Blackberry Website concepts: Part 1 of 2 version 2.0!

The first of 2 website mock ups for Blackberry. This is the "light" version of the site.

More Illustrator pen tool practice

You can tell that I'm having WAY too much fun with this crap....

Vancouver Canucks logo trace

Just more boredom on a Sunday night. I traced the whole thing in about 3 hours, with no breaks, just straight work. It's another basic logo that can still turn out pretty sweet. Plus, they're pretty much the only decent Canadian team in the NHL.
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Audi R8 Web Design

This project was actually completed about 1 month ago, but I never got around to posting it on my blog. Better late than never, I suppose...

New Photoshop techniques

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Learning some new Photoshop skills. Experimenting with filters, gradients, screening and learning to make lightning using levels and difference clouds. Pretty cool stuff, actually.

3D Scenes: Part 1 of 3

So this is one of the 3D scenes for the New Media Tools assignment. Our task was to use the 3D effects offered in Illustrator (Bevel/Extrude, Revolve) to create some 3D scenes.

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