Great Illustrator examples

Here are a few examples of what illustrator can do. I found vector.tutsplus.com which has some awesome tutorials which I hope to try out sometime.

Here are a few from the vectortuts+ website:

http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects/create-colorful-layered-paper-type-in-illustrator/

http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/the-hidden-power-of-the-average-command-creating-swirly-type/

http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects/creating-an-environmentally-friendly-green-type-treatment/

http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects/create-a-vibrant-3d-pixel-type-treatment/

http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/how-to-create-a-rainy-window-vector-background/

http://vector.tutsplus.com/designing/working-with-3d-objects-and-transparencies-to-make-a-vector-cola-bottle-design/

http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/create-a-can-of-beans-by-mapping-vectors-to-a-3d-object/

Here's one from transfuchsian

http://transfuchsian.blogspot.com/2009/04/illustrator-vector-3d-lighting-text.html

I didn't even know it was possible to do but apparently you can achieve photo realistic drawings in Illustrator. I found this website which showcases some amazing drawing and added just some of the drawings below.

http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com/2006/07/worlds-most-photorealistic-vector-art.html

Snow fun!

Nigel asked us to do some snow typography in our holidays when there was a big snow on 4/5 January 2010. I had just arrived back from sunny Sydney, Bondi Beach to be precise. We had landed in the start of the big snow and not long after we landed Heathrow was closed.

I'm not the biggest fan of the cold at the best time so this was a bit of a chore for me rather then fun. So I wrapped up warm and started to play. Thanks to my husband for the photography.

This is the end result - Where is the beach indeed!

I first started out using my comic sans d as a stamp to make my initials db.

My husband thought that db stood for Didi's bum... very funny love!

When the going gets tough, the tough get a blow torch. After a trip to the local Kitchen shop I had me a creme brulee blow torch and I was off.

Only it didn't have the required effect, which was to melt the snow double time so I could get back inside without getting frostbite. I did however scorch the grass under the snow and my parents still have Ou est on their lawn.

So I tried the good old wooden spoon and hard work method and that's how I made the final photo at the top of this post.

Comic Sans Destroyed final

Here is the final movie from my Comic Sans Destroyed project.

Tonight Cat I'm going to be...

I decided to chose Helmut Newton's YSL - Le Smoking as my iconic photo to reproduce. I had seen it on a BBC4 programme - Seven Photographs that changed Fashion, where Rankin paid homage two Seven photographers.

Here's the end result

Our Shrine the final

Joe and I got together, cut and drilled holes in the two boards which would be the top and base of the suspended skull. We then painstakingly attached Joe's printed out random images onto the fishing gut to make my skull. We used two chairs to balance the top board, which can be seen in the pictures below.


Front view


Side view


Skull

Here is the final movie, Joe got rid of the board on the floor and the chairs on either side and I think it looks rather good. We didn't do to badly either our class voted it 5th out of 23 groups, so I was very relieved.

Our Shrine - Part Three

The brief:

For the Final part of our Shrine we have to make our Shrine in groups of two, combining our passions. Joe's passion is random images and mine is of course skulls.

So one of our ideas was to make a suspended skull using Joe's random images to make up the shape of the skull.

We got together yesterday to do a quick trial run and here are a couple of photos from it.

Comic Sans family day out

On Monday we got to take our Comic Sans letters out. Well, when I say out - I mean in and around the side of the campus, not so much out out. There was mention of The Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park, which would have been great, but by the time we were done we were all so cold and hungry - so some of us went to Mcdonalds.

d is for dumped - Comic sans trashed.

d is for doing nothing - Just lying around!

d is for ducks - What better then a dip in the rather large puddle outside the college, after all it was weather for ducks.

d is for diagonal - Family snap on the steps of the Tate.

d is for done - Comic sans family waiting to catch the bus home.