I decided to make a wallpaper a few weeks back. Australia had a 2 week holiday coming up, My brother was coming down from Sydney for those 2 weeks, And he likes military planes.
As a kinda present, and because I hadn't made anything "deviantart worthy" in a while, I decided to make a vector image of my favourite plane.
Anyway, I read a few tutorials, I wish I could remember them because 3 of them were from dA.
Anyway, a few things in this were my first time:
Gradient meshes
Hand traced vectorizing.
Colour selection, using eyedropper, from the original image.
So this was a, half test, half serious attempt at something for my brother.
And if you're wondering, he didn't want it. He doesn't want stylized images of planes, he wants real photos, Where no small details are ignored by an artist.
Anyway, Everything made in Illustrator CS3, all hand made, A few days work, but interrupted often by my assessment and my niece, who liked sitting on my lap listening to loud music, then falling asleep... To LOUD music... Crazy niece.
Thanks man. I'm really liking this vector stuff.
I may try to work 3D stuff into Photoshop and illustrator at some point.
Like they say, 2 minds are better than 1. But in this case, it's 3 programs.
Well I got a large amount of the upgrades lately, since my motherboard died:
* New motherboard (with on-board graphics, I'm currently using)
* AMD 4800+ 64 X2
* 2 GB of RAM
But I'm looking for 3 more things.
1. New graphics card, Probably an Nvidia 8600GT 512MB
2. Widescreen LCD monitor 22"+ 2ms refresh, or faster.
3. Bigger, better, and more of, speakers, maybe new sound card, if needed.
Hey! I guess since you're messaging me now, You won't be online for a few more months.
It's good to hear from you, What have you been up to? Still looking after horses?
Yeah, I love Migs too, Especially The MiG-29. Although I also like the SU-47.
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Nolla the Wanderer
~I'm in love with my lust, burning angel wings to dust~
Also having computer troubles, And looking for work.
Money=better computer.
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Ah, Rigging... The Animationist's nightmare!
I may try to work 3D stuff into Photoshop and illustrator at some point.
Like they say, 2 minds are better than 1. But in this case, it's 3 programs.
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Ah, Rigging... The Animationist's nightmare!
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Nolla the Wanderer
~I'm in love with my lust, burning angel wings to dust~
nice plane! luv migs!
Smiles
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Life may be a bitch but Im TOP bitch so it better look out coz Im pissed and looking for someone to blame.....
Dance like no ones watching...
* New motherboard (with on-board graphics, I'm currently using)
* AMD 4800+ 64 X2
* 2 GB of RAM
But I'm looking for 3 more things.
1. New graphics card, Probably an Nvidia 8600GT 512MB
2. Widescreen LCD monitor 22"+ 2ms refresh, or faster.
3. Bigger, better, and more of, speakers, maybe new sound card, if needed.
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Ah, Rigging... The Animationist's nightmare!
It's good to hear from you, What have you been up to? Still looking after horses?
Yeah, I love Migs too, Especially The MiG-29. Although I also like the SU-47.
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Ah, Rigging... The Animationist's nightmare!
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