Vectorise This

 

My idea of fun is sitting around turning loads of drawings into vectors. I was mostly thinking about t-shirt printability when I made these. Some I did just to mess about. But mainly for t-shirts and that sort of thing. Some worked better than others.

1. Worked really well. Thick lines. Detail remains. Possible shirt.

2. Blown up big on a shirt with some type. 

3. Sort of worked... unsure. Blown up with the right typography could work really well.

4. Pretty much exactly as the drawing was only with black lips. Would work.

5. Hasn't really worked too well. Don't think this is strong enough compared to the others.

6. Love it. Might get this printed on a shirt just for myself. Again, blow it up large, full front of shirt, and put some type across the top.

7. Not so much for shirts. Was just playing about with the 'Love Is' set. Stylised them alot.

8. Not as strong as the last one, but that's because the original drawing wasn't as good.

9. Love this. Clean lines. Very, very clean.

10. Just because Sad Bear is awesome.

Sad Bear

I never just draw in pencil. I drew this while red nose day was on the TV. Probably where the sadness came from.

December 18th 2010: Pandas Love Ball In The Cup

Pandas much prefer a ball in a cup to a yoyo. Yoyos are left in the dirt, unused. Sad and alone. While ball in a cup gets all the play time. This drawing is awful. Laziness sunk in. Snap out of it.

November 22nd 2010: Drop The Anchor

A mix up of all different kinds of interesting things and that. Like it. Piece an image together slowly out of individual silly bits of drawing and I enjoy it. More to come.

November 17th 2010: Baby I'm The Only One Howling

A selection of lovely animals that I drew. Childish styles are the best. See the bear from the walk in the woods cover. Yeah. Nice.

Graphic Systems: A walk in the woods Completed

Another book cover busted out in a day, even though I had a crit all day at uni. Speed. It's getting easier now that I've figured out my system for setting up the files & getting things in the right place. I really like the colour scheme on this one, I think the green and the brown are working really well together and the yellow of the bears face really stands out as it's the only other colour. This ones got a leaf as the extra little illustration above 'Bryson' which is obviously derived from 'the woods.' In addition to this I've also added a couple of little twigs onto the back cover box as it was brown which made me think "tree." Overall I think this is another successful cover. It's slightly different to the others; as it had such a vertical illustration I had to move the bear to one side and have the text on the other but I don't think that this has effected the layout negatively at all. It just adds a little more variety to the set. The crit went well today, my designs recieved a good reception and the only problem that came up were the use of the grid to get sections like the 'Black Swan' logo & the barcode in the same place every time. So I edited my grid system and simply dropped the barcode and repeating text at the bottom of the back cover onto the master page. Problems solved.

Graphic Systems: A walk in the woods illustrated

So I'd had a super productive day anyway getting a whole cover done and thought I'd crack on and try and do as much of another one as I could. I read the first chapter and a half and discovered that about 80% of it is about bear attacks. So obviously I chose to illustrate a bear... it turns out I can't draw bears. I spent an hour and a half sketching really awful bear faces and then rubbing them out. So this one took forever to do even though it's so, so simple. But I'm quite pleased with the end result, it's consistent with the others but works on it's own as an illustration as well.