Drawing on the computer.

[SweetCaroline]

As some of you know, I'm taking a class in computer graphics design. I spent years drawing and painting, yet never really explored the possiblities of drawing on the computer. A week ago I installed Adobe Illustrator on to my home PC and have spent most of my free time playing around with it. It's all for school, but it's also been a lot of fun. There's still a lot I need to learn, but I'm quite proud of what I've been able to do so far.

My first assignment is to design two logos for a fictional company of my choice--one representational of an object associated with the company, and one abstract that evokes the "feel" of what ever the company stands for. Giving my love for amusement parks, it seemed like a natural choice, and one I'd enjoy doing.

Here's what I did.

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I built a roller coaster! Two weeks ago I hardly ever even used Illustrator. Now I'm doing stuff like this. This isn't the finished design though. That's not due for another week and a half, so I have time to refine it, but it's a start.

The abstract designs were a little tougher, and I had a hard time deciding which one to go with so I made two. This first one I really like. It could possibly be the logo for any company...

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The second one needs a little smoothing out, but I really like the shapes. Does anyone have any idea what inspired it (and no, it's not a smile face, though it was meant to evoke that.)

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The hardest thing about drawing on the computer, at least for me as a traditional artist, is that it doesn't always come out the way I draw it on paper. These started out as pencil sketches on paper. I made four pages full of thumbnails for class last week. Here's a couple of them. First the representational ones...

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and here are some of the abstract ones...

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None of these took very long. Just brainstorming at this point.

Before going into Illustrator, and taking in the class critique I had last week. I chose a few of my favorite ones and refined them a bit.

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I really just like doodling like this, but I was also starting to consider how I might draw them in Illustrator.

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I'll probably never get over my love for making things by hand, but the feeling of accomplishment is the same, and it never hurts to learn a new skill or a new way of looking at things.

Well that's it for this week. At this rate who knows what I'll be doing a couple weeks from now. Enjoy

[SweetCaroline]

For some reason the first image keeps showing up as a hyperlink for me. Here it is in case you can't see it.

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[Mr.Dude]

There are two types of people in this world:

Artists, and

Business People

Artists don't need business people to survive.

Business People need to exploit artists to survive.

Thank you for being an artist. The world can survive without business people, but will die without artists.

Like you I never grew up without computer generated or the ability to computer generate art. All things considered it's probably a good thing I didn't because considering what can be done I probably would have turned into a total recluse(instead of the partial recluse that I am) and done nothing but art all day and night.

[talidapali]

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The first looks to me like someone doing a ballet dance move or a figure skater doing that move where they are gliding along with one leg way up in the air behind them and their head nearly touching the ice...

The second puts in mind of nothing so much as a cat curled around in that weird position they can get into while taking a bath and they are cleaning their lower belly (ahem...you know...that lower belly)

[EricForman]

For some reason the first image keeps showing up as a hyperlink for me. Here it is in case you can't see it.

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Cool longgrain. Nice work.

On the 1st image showing up as a link. . . .that happens to me when I go back and edit a post with two images or more in it. When I resubmit, the first image turns into a link and the rest stay as images.

I fix it by going back and editing, only this time click on Advanced editing. Without doing anything else, I then just save and it changes the link back into an image.

In short, using the Advanced editing will preserve that first image.

[SweetCaroline]

On the 1st image showing up as a link. . . .that happens to me when I go back and edit a post with two images or more in it. When I resubmit, the first image turns into a link and the rest stay as images.

I fix it by going back and editing, only this time click on Advanced editing. Without doing anything else, I then just save and it changes the link back into an image.

In short, using the Advanced editing will preserve that first image.

Thanks. I was wondering about that since it happed to me once before in the art show thread and I have no clue how to fix it. I must have edited the message seven times before I said "screw it" and just reposted the picture in another post.

[SweetCaroline]

Well here it is two weeks later. He's the final design for class this week, with three different text treatments. I still have to do my abstract design, but I still have a few days until class. I think they're coming along nicely.

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Curious which one people like the best tho. :)

[Mr.Dude]

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I never noticed until this scale, but the rolloer coaster ride looks very much like the outline of a laughing clown. Some work there might yield something interesting. For children.

[SweetCaroline]

I never noticed until this scale, but the rolloer coaster ride looks very much like the outline of a laughing clown. Some work there might yield something interesting. For children.

The smile face on the roller coaster was intentional, tho not meant to be noticed right away. Good eye.

[Aslan]

I have been drawing on computer for some time, now and I really enjoy it.

Here are some dolphins I made this afternoon:

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This was done with Poser 6 basic dolphin wireframe and ambient illumination on the Firefly renderer. The resulting .png is layered on another .png created in Digital Image Pro. The basic dolphin wireframe was modified slightly (for perspective) from the Wavefront object using Cinema4D. Final render of all layers in Digital Image Pro.

None of this comes from photos or photo textures.

Next, my father (who is a fabulous artist) will scale up and draw this in Prismacolor pencil on black or deep blue Strathmore paper.

[Mod5]

Cool!