Starting this project is a bit tricky as I have never used Adobe Illustrator before nor have I created digital paintings so researching artists and tutorials was the first step.
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| Adobe Illustrator CS6 Interface |
Talking with other groups who are also doing the same project, we exchanged tutorials
and methods for completing this project.
Our first introduction to an artist who paints life like
realism was the artist William Fisk. Russel posted a link to his website informing us of our target.
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| Realistic Painting www.williamfisk.ca/ |
Looking at his work closely you then realise is that the
illusion of realism is pulled off by the attention to shadow and highlight
banding on the object. So the gradient of colour is broken down into bands of separate
colours.
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| http://design.tutsplus.com/articles/realistic-vector-motorcycle-portraits--vector-3694 |
We were then introduced to another fantastic tutorial going
further into the process using Adobe Illustrator. The concept is simple,
outline everything from the bike parts through to the shadows just like a ‘Pain
by Numbers’ or how a tattoo artist would draw his stencil. However the premise
is simple, the process is very time consuming. This tutorial showed us the step
by step process which was really helpful as all the detail can become a bit
overwhelming.
Tattoo Stencil and Paint by Numbers
The last thing to do was watch tutorials to become familiar
with the Illustrator interface. Having never used Illustrator before I had no
idea where things were located so these tutorials helped immensely.
Adobe Illustrator CS6 Basics
Illustrator Pen Tool Basics
Illustrator Vectoring Images
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