The Musician Series

Kosko

Hey, new guy here. Thought I'd post some of the art of been doing recently using Illustrator. Here they are in order of oldest to newest.











FWIW, please take the quality with a grain of salt, the original illustrator files are all crisp, but these are extracted to jpgs and then hosted on mySpace...I know, I know... I do have higher quality ones over at Deviant Art but I'm pretty sure they dont let you hotlink images. Open to all criticism, tips, questions, etc. Thanks for viewing.

Lly

Honestly? It looks like you did a trace image and then fiddled with the colours

Ravenshadow

with a nose like that it HAS to be Less Claypool (yay for pre-Brown album Primus)

And Flea! yay! Although I haven't really enjoyed the Peppers since BSSM, they've got no energy anymore.

But honestly. It does look like you just traced over photos. There's nothing wrong with that, its just not all that interesting.

Ehmavisca

MagicToaster

Yeah... vectored photos are boring.

Also, nothing particularly creative about these... maybe if the background flowed out of the guitar, like a rainbow of halucinogenics and turned into visible music... that would be more interesting.

EDIT:

The last one has artifacts out the wazoo. Did you do something to it on Photoshop?

Staleghoti

If you really want this to be a series, you might want to consider some continuity in terms of size... maybe colours too.

Kosko

Thanks for the criticism on them, its what I was honestly looking for. First off, Photoshop was never used in these; true I did use resource photos, but I used no filters. Photoshop vectorize and posterize come out horrible IMO. Secondly, with the artifacts, its just cause they are low quality jpegs. I'm not trying excuse things, just adding some info on them. Thanks for viewing, take it easy.

Orikaeshigitae

Use www.imageshack.com or www.photobucket.com for hosting.

JCM

Great vector work (prefer vector art over plain bitmaps anyday), how did you get the backgrond on the second one with Illustrator?

Kosko

Thanks, thats done using a gradient mesh. They're really fun to work with. You can see them used really well in the Adobe icons, like petals on a flower or flesh tones. Definitly worth playing around with.