Having spent about 5 years drawing homes & buildings in Illustrator in Los Angeles, I’m always excited to find someone doing it in an interesting way. I really like the orange treatment Andrei Marius gave this illustration over on VectorTuts.
It reminded me of a poster I started working on a few months ago but keep deciding that I don’t like. I’ve included a snippet of that after the break. Surely with a buildup like that, how can you resist?
Here’s a quick tutorial where I run through using the opacity mask in Illustrator to create transparent shadows that fade out to nothing. I can remember when I first started drawing in Illustrator it took longer than I care to admit before I realized that a gradient didn’t have to have two colors (ok, it does but it doesn’t have to appear that way).
I’m not sure what I was planning to do with this drawing. I’m pretty sure I was just drawing it for a screencast that I ended up not using. Anyway, I’m giving away the .ai file in the hopes that somebody has a use for it.
Here’s a really quick way to match a color to an external source (like a paint chip). I used to have to do this a lot when I was doing architectural renderings that were then printed to a large-format Epson 9600.
Here’s an illustration done in Adobe Illustrator that I ended up not being able to use. All of the texture and ruffles are done using the stripes, not with a gradient mesh.
Here’s a quick tutorial using the Dunks that I gave away in an earlier post. It shows how to create complex highlights using the pathfinder tool. If you wanted to, sharp shadows can be done the same way.
Here’s an illustration of some Nike Dunks that I did in Adobe Illustrator a while ago. The point of the drawing was to see how realistic I could make them without using the gradient mesh.
Since this one wasn’t used commercially, I’m giving it away as a free EPS file. You can download it here.
Having spent about 5 years drawing homes & buildings in Illustrator in Los Angeles, I’m always excited to find someone doing it in an interesting way. I really like the orange treatment Andrei Marius gave this illustration over on VectorTuts.
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