I drew this with Illustrator 10. Entirely vectors.
Posted by Barry Branscum (Member # 445) on :
Woof! Awesome Don!! You are the man with illustrator!
Posted by Stevo Chartrand (Member # 2094) on :
Holy Crap Don!!! Impressive stuff.
How many hours you got in this one?
Stevo
Posted by Dale Manor (Member # 4858) on :
Excellent work Don...you are truly a guru with Illustrator.
Hope the next Wicked storm blows out to sea and misses you guys completely! I'll be thinking of you down there!
take care
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Cool stuff Don!
Posted by Joe Endicott (Member # 628) on :
Very nice.
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
Is that on your Christmas Wish List Don! (great work btw)
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
quote:Originally posted by Stevo Chartrand: Holy Crap Don!!! Impressive stuff.
How many hours you got in this one?
Stevo
This one required about 10 hours to get that level of detail. Usually, a similar image to this requires 6 to 8 hours.
Posted by Steve Eisenreich (Member # 1444) on :
Very nice, did you use a photo as a reference?
Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on :
It looks really good Don. It must have taken lots of patience. Now animate it and get the heck out of there. Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
quote:Originally posted by Steve Eisenreich: Very nice, did you use a photo as a reference?
Here's the reference photo.
Posted by Michael R. Bendel (Member # 5847) on :
Very impressive. I bet it looks hellascious in wire frame! Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
Incredible blending & realism Don! Nice composition too, the rods & lines jetting out in space & the rough seas breaking out of the box really help finish it nicely. Great job with that bit of extra color too.
Posted by Dan Antonelli (Member # 86) on :
Wow!
Don't know if you're mac based - but I just picked up the 30" cinema display -- something like that on a screen that large would probably save a bit of time maybe...
Unreal work!
Posted by Bobbie Rochow (Member # 3341) on :
Wow, that is really something Don! I didn't know you could make vector images like that!
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Bobbie, this boat is actually nothing compared to some of Don's other illustrations. Check out his portfolio where he has an all-vector Harley illustration.
Don, the jetskis in your portfolio.. I gotta ask.. did you draw them for Exotic Signs or did you trace them as practice from Exotic's website?
Posted by Sal Cabrera (Member # 1236) on :
very cool! Don
Posted by Ricky Jackson (Member # 5082) on :
Man, that's *just* the way I wooda dunnit. Fantastic Don.
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mike Pipes:
Don, the jetskis in your portfolio.. I gotta ask.. did you draw them for Exotic Signs or did you trace them as practice from Exotic's website?
Mike, a fellow up north sent photos, or, in any case, jpegs (been too long ago and can't remember), and wanted vector art done from them.
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Don, that is truly spectacular. Your work is first rate!
Posted by Scott Pagan (Member # 2507) on :
looks very nice. post a wireframe to truly show off your vector prowess.
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
Here's a couple screenshots of the wireframe. As you can see, this one was drawn very simply...nothing particularly fancy. One of the tricky things about an illustration like this is keeping control o f all the layers. This has to go on top of that, that on top of this, etc.
I generally don't work in layers, but each time a new object is drawn, it naturally (or electronically, I guess) is above the last object drawn. So, technically, they are layers.
Rather than guess colors, I sampled colors directly from the template photo, including for use for the many gradients.
The rubber bumpers (those white cylinders up front) were created with the gradient mesh tool. The water was done by running the photo through Adobe Streamline, then deleting everything but what water "roostertail" I needed to finish off the illustration. I duplicated the water and put the copy behind the boat, to give a bit more depth to the final image.
Although I enjoy creating plotter ready art, it's kind of nice to do this kind of work, too, which is aimed towards printing rather than cutting.
[ October 28, 2005, 01:38 PM: Message edited by: Don Coplen ]
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