Illustration Club

[FargalEX]

They are all mine to wed.

[cleandemon]

Minkee's new website is super duper.

[minkee]

speaking of which!

I wanted to do some helpful how to's for illustrator stuff, because it's easy when you know how, and I probably know how or can fake it. Does anyone have anything they struggle with that would be good to know about? or that they know about now but used to be a real pain, or anything else you think might be useful?

[cleandemon]

Absolutely everything.

Also, clipping masks, but then I am an idiot.

[minkee]

MASK GOES ON TOP

[FargalEX]

I've taught several people how to use illustrator, including clipping masks which often took some time to hit home.

[cleandemon]

Yeah, but it's reet good as well.

[FargalEX]

Illustrator is the best. Loz, just stick with it and you'll get quicker at using it. The "absolute barest parts of illustrator" are basically all you'll be using most of the time, making shapes with the pen tool. Generally I only ever use clipping masks if I'm trying to add shadows or highlights to something.

[Melon_Bread]

i have a new website. bunnies say hoo-rah.

Love your new site!

Esp the 'Everything you need to know about minkee' page XD

[minkee]

Love your new site!

Esp the 'Everything you need to know about minkee' page XD

thankyou much! ;D

the about page turned out like that only because after an hour of writing 'hello i like cake and drawing' in a variety of tedious ways, i just gave up and drew it instead. luckily, everyone seems to prefer it that way ;D

[c-cat114]

Loving the mushrooms Very cool. Especially, I think, the leaves around the funguy's arms and legs, draws the eye in nicely.

[Victoria]

That's brilliant, Lozzyboo. Love the colours.

[FargalEX]

Frog frog frog frog

[BlinkyBear]

No pun intended, but I think that's your watermark now Farg.

Simply stunning.

[matt0]

Getting pretty intimidating posting in this thread... Amazing work over the last few pages.

Anyway, here's my latest bout of inverterate geekiness:

[Dude Ranch]

Of all the things to pick out, that shadow is brilliant.

[lordcookie]

Frog girl is all kinds of amazing.

[cleandemon]

Good god that's brilliant.

[GODSTEETH]

Yeah Fargal, I absolutely adore Frog girl!

[FargalEX]

Thankyou! Frog girl adores you too.

OR DOES SHE

Love that tank Matt, super stubby barrel!

[BlinkyBear]

Any chance of new prints soon Farg? Been aaaaaaaaages since the first lot.

[FargalEX]

I've had a Deviantart prints thing going for a while but I haven't uploaded anything there for ages now. I guess I could upload some newer pictures. I don't know where I'd be able to get a decent quality print of my work otherwise, the first set of prints I got done were a one off thing. Also the majority of my photoshop work is at A4/300dpi so they wouldn't be very big - I haven't done much in the way of vector work lately.

[pranny]

now animate it ! that water is totally bodacious, the shadow, the pinks the stems of the lillies that i thoughht were reflections at first but clearly arent . I want to see this on the wall of the office in IT crowd next season.And on my wall.matt0 great pose , looks like an old tank police tank not that i`ve watched that for years.

[Gunstar]

Fargal> That is out of control awesome! I love how you've described the water. Level up!!

matt0> Eri from Metal Slug!! Nice work dude .

[divine visitor]

Minkee: Fantastic bunny designs, and great colour choices - so vibrant!

Lozzyboo: I like the orangey mushrooms too, although that big brown flaky/textured one is my fave

FargalEX: Great work as usual. The shadow cast onto the bottom half of the image is a nice touch

Matt0: Excellent job on the tank in particular, the chunkiness of it is perfect.

EDIT:

[pocket frenzy]

Those fonts are both BRILLIANT.

Can you write an alphabet in them and flog it me for lollipops or something? I'm keen to get something written on me and I've been looking for fancy fonts.

I also don't know what to get written.

[matt0]

Cheers folks!

Divine visitor: Quality stuff! Done in fevered anticipation of SF4?

[divine visitor]

It was just a doodle in my sketchbook I decided to colour up. But yeah man, can't wait for SF4.

Fake movie poster done for a sketch challenge:

[FargalEX]

Awesome awesomes DV! I especially like the lighting on the Chun Li picture.

Here's a birthday card for my friend based on the cover for Jak and Daxter:

[minkee]

this turned out excellently, good job \o/