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SickManSick by Rich Sheehan

craig — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:46:02 +0000

Iron Man II by Tyler Stout

craig — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:06:14 +0000

I swear I’m not trying to turn DB into a showcase for Tyler Stout’s work only, but it’s hard not to highlight it when it’s this good.

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?

Olga Feldman

craig — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:43:11 +0000

Super.

Sanjuro/Yojimbo

craig — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:45:33 +0000

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.

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).

Martin Ansin’s Phantom of the Opera

craig — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:36:48 +0000

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

Details after the jump.

See more detail shots here.

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.