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Is that on your Christmas Wish List Don! (great work btw)
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Very nice, did you use a photo as a reference?
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It looks really good Don. It must have taken lots of patience. Now animate it and get the heck out of there.
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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.
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...
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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?
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Man, that's *just* the way I wooda dunnit. Fantastic Don.
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Don, that is truly spectacular. Your work is first rate!
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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.
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