My Creation

orry for the unimaginative title. :P Everything else sounded too cheesy. I'm open to suggestions for a better title.


The first piece for my new class, Digital Illustration II. It's a vector/Illustrator class, thus, the vector you see above you. The assignment was to choose something that was a 'guilty pleasure' of our and kind of stretch the concept into something creative. I decided to combine a couple of pleasures of mine (though they really aren't guilty ones), creating art, and my wonderful boyfriend Calvin. So, in my piece, I'm making him. :3

In case you aren't familiar with Illustrator technique, the face is made with a tool called Gradient Mesh. It uses grids and points to plot points and then blend colours to make a smooth effect instead of blocks of colour. It's a cool tool, however long it takes to do it. :P


But I'm pretty happy with it. I didn't choose the best reference, and I had to make up for it. But I'm happy with the effect. ^_^


(In hind sight I realize I should have uploaded this to FAC before my self portrait 2006, since this one preceeded it, but nothing I can do about that now. :P Just keep in mind this one was done first.)



Time Elapsed: 17 hours
Size: N/A
Program Used: Adobe Illustrator CS2