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Its done in Adobe Illustrator CS2. Its taken 5-6 hours to do.Its of this pretty girl: [link]
Details for commission here: [link]
I used a Wacom A5 Bamboo Tablet for this vector.
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2012 edit:
I have updated the vector to take into peoples comments about the hair not being right. So I hope the new and improved version is up to scratch.
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Hi! Your deviation is featured in our new article!
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John, do you use a tablet for the hair or other features?
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I use it for everything now. What do you want to try?
John
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Shading which gets me the most. Deciding where light shades are and darker shades are. Can you help me?
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Best thing to try, is to only used tones/shades of colour. Do all the dark area first on one layer, then do the same on the next tone/shade colour. Once you have that done and mastered. You can get out 10 tones/shades and so on.
I might sort out a AI file that shows what I do later.
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Thankyou john, that would help me alot.
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See my here: [link] This will help you once its done.
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Thank You. Glad you like it.
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woah this is awesome! I love how you colored around the eye especially! ( :
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Thanks. It's my favourite too
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I love the lips. They really pop out at you
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Thanks. This is my favourite out of all my work.
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Thanks. Its my favourite one to date.
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Great job! I like the whole piece!
As far as the hair, are they brush strokes on top of a solid dark color? Just wondering. I use Illustrator a lot, but more for control drawings. I've never tried a portrait illustration with it.
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Thanks. All the single hairs and transparent. Plus they are all on different layers, which help to editing them at the end to get them right.
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That looks beautiful, tried using a tablet with vectors once... didn't quiet work.
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Thanks. It takes time to learn it. Just got to keep trying.
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wow thats really cool....so many layers... i just got a tablet but im no good. maybe with a lil more practice i could be like you...or a lot more hehe
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this is really awesome, super detailed and reallly cool. Im curious though, how do you manage the hair? is it done with strokes, do you draw out shapes, or what? im curious as to how people have so much detail in their hair, there must be at least a slightly easier way than drawing each strand...
anyways, like i said, truly wicked stuff!
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I choose one colour per layer on the hair strokes. Which are at about 50% transparent, so it look like I have done more work. The one above is done with strokes, but I tend to mix solid shapes with it.
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wow, still sounds like a fair amount of work, once again, amazing stuff, i really like it!
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wtf? excuse my french but this is awesome! did u use wacom for tracing?
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Thanks.
I use a Wacom A5 Bamboo Tablet.
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You inspire me dude. Got any advice on how to get rid of apathy? Lol.
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Thanks. Red Bull and lots of tea work for me
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Haha! I hope you know im gonna try that. Learning from the master lol.
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I love the color tones in this image. I noticed someone mentioned not liking the hair, but I actually like the difference in textures. You have the smoothness of her face then the roughness of the hair. Just my opinion!
Your whole gallery is lovely. A great find.
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Thank you very much. Glad you like this and my gallery.
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Awesome work man. It's always inspiring to see your stuff.
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