How do I do this?
marie-k (6 pencils) | Thu, 2008-10-30 23:43I have seen a style of illustration that I am very interested in learning how to do. I have seen it on a Chili's gift card and many other places but I cant find a tutorial for it. I'd like to know how to do this using Adobe Illustrator and/or Photoshop. Thanks
Here is are 2 examples
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/6119813/2/istockphoto_6119813-floral-skull.jpg
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/4835791/2/istockphoto_4835791-new-year-s-eve-2008.jpg
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You just make your basic shapes, fill with color, and position them as desired, copy and paste to your hearts content, but know that the more objects you have the more space the file will take up. any that are overlapped with the same fill color you can combine into one object and save filespace.
If you look, you'll see that most objects are copies but resized or rotated to add the illusion of variety.
to make it in a skull shape, I might make a temporary shape to use as a guide until all the objects are in position, then delete the guide shape.
"...and mamma cried: Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow" - Frank Zappa
I thought about doing it that way but the flowers are so perfectly positioned and aligned I wasn'tsure if the artist used some sort of selection "trick" to create the outline of the skull and then filled in the flowers. It just looked too perfect to have been done "manually". Maybe the artist is really skilled.
Is this the only method or is there a way to do it by making a selection? I would really like to hear from someone that has done a similar composition.
Thanks for all your replies, very much appreciated.
Create a mask of the skull, then fill with the flower shapes. That way, even if some go "outside the lines" your skull shape stays intact.
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Ditto the above poster, but you could also create or locate illustrator "flora" brushes to speed up this process.
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i just need someone who can help me conceptualise a bank calander.... my ideas need to be given some direction
but brainstorming is how we all do it, start your own critique topic with a concept sheet of what you have so far, that's what the critique is for. People will tell you what they think and maybe give tips as long as you're straight up about being new at this.
"...and mamma cried: Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow" - Frank Zappa