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Vector Building in Orange by Andrei Marius

craig — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:08:51 +0000

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?

Adobe Illustrator: Fading Out Shadows

craig — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:00:51 +0000

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).

The Orange Chair

craig — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:56:10 +0000

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 link to the .ai file.

Quick Color Matching in Illustrator

craig — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:21:19 +0000

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.

Striped Dress Vector

craig — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:23:33 +0000

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.

You can download the .ai file here. Enjoy.

Draw Fluffy Clouds in Adobe Illustrator

craig — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:01:09 +0000

Tyler Stout’s Inglourious Basterds Poster

craig — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:43:42 +0000

Tyler Stout consistently does amazing work. Here’s a poster for Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds that I can’t get enough of.

Quick Highlights in Illustrator

craig — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:56:13 +0000

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.

Nike Dunks

craig — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:45:19 +0000

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.