Matthew Nellis

More of practice with Adobe Illustrator rather than a design piece. I wanted to have a go at vector drawing and practice using the pen tool which I’m not too familiar with.

Hit the jump for a bit more insight and a link to the high-res version.

You can view the high-res version here

It was a nice challenge, and as a first time vector illustration I’m reasonably happy. I found shading to be the hardest part; it took quite a while to get my head around some basic techniques.

It’s strange, I’ve read comics all my life, mostly webcomics nowadays, but never have I studied the art of them. Looking at Mike Krahulik’s work over at Penny Arcade helped me a lot in terms of basic form and shading, something I have never studied up until now.

I’ve got a couple of ideas for further design pieces, the next one will probably be in After Effects, so keep an eye out.

Well, its Monday and here is last week summarised in Haiku form. Enjoy!

It’s started again,
Recording is underway.
New songs imminent

Pen tool is your friend
In Illustrator, that is.
Too bad I can’t draw

Hark! What is that sound?
Nothing, it’s just in my head
Need to get out more.

What have I got planned for this week? Well Wednesday there will be another ‘Impressions’ posted. I wasn’t looking forward to this one, simply because the game I chose scares the pants off me. And I don’t do scary games very well. You’ll see….