All of these images were colleced from google images.
Magazine spread illustration:
Illustration on packaging:
Website illustration:
Illustration in instruction manuals:
I created this image illustration by choosing a picture of myself and several images of animal parts. I used an image of me in a suite, several octopus arms, saber tiger teeth and fox ears. I then used Photoshop to merge the images together and then drew a line drawing of the new image, after drawing this image I added small detail throughout the illustration such as shadows to create depth. After this, we had to choose 10+ images of different kinds of textures, the 2 that I used in the picture above are textures of crumbled paper (used for the shirt) and leather (used for the suite). Once I have the time to finish this illustration I will add different textures to the octopus arms and my face that includes the saber tiger teeth and fox’s’ ears.
When I chose this image of myself I had 2 people either side of me so you couldn’t see my arms, so I had to cut them out so that the image would only be of me. I then had to think of a way to add some sort of arm to myself and the octopus arms seemed like a creative way of doing it.
I think that this illustration is fairly successful due to that the line drawing is a good trace over the combination of myself and animal parts. Also, that the use of textures goes well with the actual colours of the real image, so the white crumbled paper for the white shirt and black leather for the black suite. The textures stay within the lines that they are meant to stay within, so this makes the illustration seem clean well done.
The process that I used to create this digital college was that: I traced over the line drawing of which I wanted to place the texture (the suite for the leather) with the magnetic lasso tool. This gave me an outline which I could then select the texture and then delete the space around it, this would give the outline of the suite. I think that this process is appropriate because it gives a clean outline around what I need to add texture too.
This illustration meets the brief because the brief was to add texture to an illustration combining myself and animal characteristics. This was met when combined an image of myself and animal parts, then added different textures over the top. Because this illustration isn’t finished I think that I should focus on finishing it as ‘what I would do differently’, this is because once it is finished then it should hopefully look like what I want it too. If my final image doesn’t looked right then I could change up the textures with different ones to see which fit the line drawing best. Or I could change some of the animal features to different ones.
I created this illustration by starting off with drawing half of my face traditionally with black and white tones, also I got a picture of a dog and digitally drew the other half of the face with black and white brushes. I then used Photoshop and put both drawings next to one another, I made the background all the same colour by using the clone tool. I used mostly the dogs’ features like the shape of his face because my traditional drawing wasn’t complete and I only drew the top half (no mouth). So I copied some of the main features from my traditional drawing and laid them over the top of the dog i.e. hair, ear and eyebrow. I used a filter in Photoshop to create the colour of the dog, there are 2 different colours, light and dark brown. The lines in the background are created by repeated rectangles, but different lengths.
The lines for the background were influenced by a designer we were shown in class. I can’t remember their name but I liked the way that the design is simple but it makes the main image stand out.
There are a couple of things that I think are successful in my illustration. For example, I think that the eyes are toned well with a good lend from white to black, same with the nose. I like the shape of both human and dog ears, the black brush defines the ears and ads shadows. I think that the colour of the illustration is successful because it matches the true colour of the dog which makes it look more realistic compared to a black and white drawing. The lines in the background were successful because I think that it makes the illustration stand out better and it helps the eye to look around the page.
There are also a few failures in this illustration. I think that the tone drawing for the dog doesn’t work well because it doesn’t really fit the rest of the design, the white strip down the middle doesn’t suite the digital drawing and the tones are not very good. One side is darker than the other and the black and white doesn’t blend well together. Also, I don’t like the traditional drawing of my hair overlaid on top of the dog. I drew over the hair with a black brush, I dislike this part of my illustration because it doesn’t look realistic and I could’ve drawn it better if I had taken my time. I think that if I took more time with my digital toning then the dogs face would have looked a lot better.
This illustration meets the brief because the brief was to combine a drawing of a human and animal. This was met when I incorporated some of my faces features alongside the dogs face. If I was to do this again I would probably change my animal drawing, this is because this dogs face is really long and it doesn’t show a mouth. This made it difficult to combine my face with the dogs because compared to the dogs mine is shorter. Next time if I was to choose an animal it would be one with a more rounded face.
Ryan Thornton Graphic Design 