Just felt like playing around

I just felt like playing with blue (and trying out some fonts I rarely use).

I buried a bit of the text in the water and the added splash bits on top. It was fun!

Developed in Adobe Illustrator CS3

Edited in Adobe Photoshop CS3

One more drink for the summer?

I vectored a tropical drink this time! I know I don't like summer as much as others, but I do like cool fruity drinks (preferably non-alcoholic). Anyway, here's one for the summer!

Out of all the drinks I found on Google, I really liked this one the most because it was very colourful. I'm really happy with the gradient used for the liquid because it has that "passionate taste" look to it. I'm really pleased with the fruit hanging from the rim as well. The gradient effect worked wonderfully with the pear and cherry.

If you look closely there's a hint of ice inside the drink. Just two little blocks. Most of the light sections on the glass are ever so slightly blurred. Finally, I lowered the opacity on the white shapes. I'm very happy with this result!



Developed in: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Edited in: Adobe Photoshop CS3

Care for a glass?

Here's a little vector piece I did of a glass of wine and a bottle. I'm quite pleased with how the wine glass came out.

It's surprisingly difficult to do a semi-transparent object. I had more difficulty with the bottle than I did with the wineglass, but I managed to make both objects look decent. By dropping the opacity and adding a slight blur onto some of the darker and lighter shapes, I get a nice smooth look. If the vector objects/shapes are too sharp, the wineglass and bottle look very cartoon-y. The blur is supposed to help with the lighting and the shade.

Developed in: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Edited in: Adobe Photoshop CS3

Green letter template

I did this before going on vacation, but I didn't get a chance to post it. I wanted to do a cute little letter design. I've also always liked the use of circles and swirls in a lot of vector designs I found over the internet. Also, I really like this tint of green!

This is definitely the start of something fun for me!

I have a feeling I'm going to try doing seasonal themes (so up to 4 designs). Eventually I want to try playing with gear themes, but for now, this is what I've got!



Developed in: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Edited in: Adobe Photoshop CS3

It's summer time!

I felt like ice cream because it's summer and it's gotten bloody hot this year (so far). Then I figured I'd vector a cute little ice cream banner/theme/logo (or whatever you would like to call it). It was actually very fun. I had to experiment with a few colours first before I was satisfied.

Vectored in: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Edited in: Adobe Photoshop CS3

Second Fairy Vector

I did this one two months ago but didn't upload it until now. I like it the way it is but I'll add an extra spray of white in the background next time. Originally the sketch was really messy, but I was able to adjust the body shape with the anchor and vector points. The flower I made is the orange version of a second lotus vector I did a long time ago. It came out much better than I expected because I used gradients again.




Developed in Adobe Illustrator

Here are the original (super rough) sketches:

Vectored myself

I wanted to vector myself for the "about" page of my website, which is currently in the process of being scripted/coded/developed. This is my first time vectoring a person and I'm quite pleased with the outcome. The colours came out better than I expected. I personally thought it was going to be somewhat difficult because of the way the sun was shining on me the original photo. I definitely had fun with it, even though vectoring the image took a few days. All of this was done in Adobe Illustrator using the pen tool.

Here is the vectored piece

Here is the original image

Layout WIP

So this idea came into my mind while I was doodling in class. I thought of a sweets shop layout and decided I wanted to vector a bit of it out. It's good practice...and I got to look at a lot of goodies while deciding which ones I wanted to use as a reference.

Vector practice

I am currently using vectors on old images I drew. I also learned how to do swirls and nice, but simple designs in Adobe Illustrator. Here is my current work in progress. I used the fair image I drew a long while ago and vectored it for this wallpaper. I'll be editing it later, but for now I'll post my work in progress.

View the original fairy sketch

Matt Wallpaper

I did a snowy background for the figure I vectored a few days ago. Nothing special or complicated about it. I contemplated on adding a few more things to it, but I'll leave it as is for now. Maybe some trees and a pattern in the back, or a snow bear and a snow Matt will do in the future. Click image to enlarge (1280 x 800 pixels)

Flash backgrounds

For my Flash toysite assignment, I created a few backgrounds to match the Socorian I designed a while back. I designed an abandoned factory (from the outside) at night. It gives a dark feel to the toy. It's appropriate considering the fact that this toy was the predator of the project I did with Gabby. I created a school setting as well because I couldn't think of another theme at the time and school was frustrating me. I figured it'd be fun to destroy some imaginary pencils and paper.

Here's a link to the original sculpted Socorian

Matt of Hetalia

I vectored a figure from the insanely popular anime series Hetalia Axis Powers. My friends adore Matt from Canada, so I decided to vector him and make a wallpaper with it. For now, I've finished the vector, which came out much better than I expected. I adjusted the tones a little because of lighting, but I'm very pleased with it.

Vectored in Adobe Illustrator CS3

The original image

The original photo was not taken by me and this character does not belong to me

The original flower

I wanted to use a blossomed flower as a logo for myself, but I had some difficulties deciding on the design. This was one of them. I kept another which will be shown some day. I used an image of a lotus flower I quite liked over the internet and began playing with some gradients. This one actually looks really nice from afar. I was tempted to keep it but decided my final design should be simple. Here's what it looks like anyway. It's still something I'm proud of.

Vector background

I vectored this spooky background for a video assignment (Semester 3). It's part Tim Burton, part spooky owls. It was fun making it. I added texture to the ground so it wouldn't look so flat. I'm happy with the outcome, and it looked very nice in the film.

Vector sketch

I created a character a few weeks ago and sketched it out onto paper.  I will post the completed vectored image in the near future.