Olga Feldman

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Sanjuro/Yojimbo

I came across these covers for two of Akira Kurosawa’s best flicks the other day while looking for another one of his films on Netflix. Love them.

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Adobe Illustrator: Fading Out Shadows

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).

Martin Ansin’s Phantom of the Opera

Here’s a beautifully rendered poster for the Phantom of the Opera at the Alamo Drafthouse by Martin Ansin.

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The Orange Chair

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

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

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

Tyler Stout’s Inglourious Basterds Poster

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

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.