Cheetah Painting

Our second mini project was a digital painting. We came up with a character (from a story made up by our teacher’s 5 year old) and drew him/her. One of the animals in the story was a Cheetah, which I took and cartoonised, as well as personalized. The background was a build up of brushes, which gave myself a base layer of colors. My sketch was scanned into the computer, and I created new layers and painted over my sketch.

Finally, ADG!

So I finally caught up to this month’s class ADG – Advanced Computer Graphics. I have been doing more work and tutorials in both Illustrator and Photoshop this month, as well as beginning to incorporate more of my own designs into the work unlike the main focus of last months Graphics class, which was to help us get started on the programs. The first project we did was to render a mechanical object of our choice in 3D. We first made a sketch and took pictures of our object to help us understand the perspective and lighting. Then we drew it in Illustrator.

Trying to get the main shadows and highlights. Not too worried about perspective at this point…

Close up of the lens area.

The Wire Frame of my Camera. I’ve got many layers there, and a mesh or two… The text was pen tooled in because Canon’s font is copyrighted and I can’t grab it =)

And my final project! I think I did a pretty job, considering I’m still new to Illustrator. The color of the camera is a more gold brown. This is because when I took the picture of my camera (in which I constantly used for reference) The light reflected off my brown table, making my camera look brown. I like it that way though =)

We used our objects to make an ad. As you can see, I pen tooled the Canon writing (again). I also changed the color of my camera to make the ad tie in together as a whole.