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Illustration Friday – Pattern

By paul | Published: 29 September 2009

In homage to those hidden 3-D images that would magically appear if you looked at the pattern for long enough – usually going cross-eyed in the process. Wait a minute, I’m starting to see something…

Adobe Illustrator and mouse, (since my dog has taken a taste for my graphic tablet’s pen!)

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Illustration Friday – Welcome

By paul | Published: 17 September 2009

Welcome

… to my world. First thing I thought of when I read this week’s topic, and just couldn’t shake it! (But Jim certainly could!) Welcome to my World was a big hit for Jim Reeves in 1964, the year he died in a plane crash, and only a year after country legend Patsy Cline suffered the same fate. Both pilots of those ill-fated flights it emerged later were trained by the same flight instructor! Strange but true….

An Adobe Illustrator creation. For Dad

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Illustration Friday – Strong

By paul | Published: 10 September 2009

Strong

Strong cheese at bedtime, a recipe for nightmares! An experimental piece that went off on a tangent, but if it stops just one person eating copious amounts of cheddar before sleeps my mission will have been accomplished! An Illustrator creation.

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Illustration Friday – Magnify

By paul | Published: 1 September 2009

Magnify

Vector vs Bitmap illustrated at 400% magnification – in your face literally!

(For maximum effect click on picture to, er, magnify…)

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Illustration Friday – Caution

By paul | Published: 27 August 2009

Caution
If it doesn’t say jacuzzi, it probably isn’t!

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Illustration Friday – Wrapped

By paul | Published: 20 August 2009

Wrapped
The lesser kilted sausage, traditionally prime sausage wrapped in a kilt made of bacon(!), but in Scotland at least, proud to wear the national dress. Sadly in decline due to the imminent arrival of tea-time! Line art and vectors courtesy of Adobe Illustrator.

Posted in Cartoons | Tagged adobe illustrator, line art, sausage, vector | 6 Comments

Illustration Friday – Modify

By paul | Published: 4 August 2009

Modify
Better be a bit careful with my description here. However here are some of the required tools and products to further enhance the natural beauty of the female form, or in technical terms ‘chucking on some ’slap’ before a night on the town’! Artwork scanned and then traced and “modified” in Illustrator. No animals were harmed in production of this illo!
- As an afterthought I’ve included initial black and white artwork to further embrace the topic and illustrate the modification process

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Illustration Friday – Idle

By paul | Published: 28 July 2009

IF – Idle
Introducing the idle eaters, like odour eaters, but instead of removing bad smells they get rid of lazy sods wherever they may idle. Character designed in Illustrator, I’m going to lie down now.

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Illustration Friday – Tango

By paul | Published: 21 July 2009

IF -Tango
Not a lot of room for creative manoeuvrability – re this week’s subject matter, unlike the dance partnership depicted here strutting their stuff! Scanned line art, traced, coloured and assembled in Illustrator. (p.s dancesteps may lead to serious injury and are for illustration purposes only!)

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Illustration Friday – Hollow

By paul | Published: 15 July 2009

Creative block illustrated. When there’s nothing, nought, zilch! – it’s completely hollow up there! Slightly different artistic approach, line art scanned, traced and modified in Adobe Illustrator.

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