worthless whatnot

[Ignatz]

hey guys. I made a thread some time ago i think, but whatever. I thought I'd show you guys some of my stuff I have been working on as of late. I've got some new stuff from my sketchbook (which I have since named "law"). I also have attained a copy of of illustrator. So I have been learning and designing some t-shirts as well. I would really like to hear what you guys think. One of my hopes is that someday I'll reach a point in which I can manipulate my hand drawn designs and create shirt designs based off them through illustrator. I don't think I am skilled enough, but that's what I am working toward.



i saw explosions in the sky the other weekend at South by Southwest. During their performance, I snagged this photo and later editted it a bit.


This is a pocket-size front design for a t-shirt I made for a fraternity at my school.

[Matador]

really cool! One thing to note, though, on the Cassete graphic. The letters aren't in perspective with the tape. There should be a way to do that in Illustrator, so it's fixable, but's a little distracting from an otherwise awesome graphic.

[Ignatz]

really cool! One thing to note, though, on the Cassete graphic. The letters aren't in perspective with the tape. There should be a way to do that in Illustrator, so it's fixable, but's a little distracting from an otherwise awesome graphic.

Yeah that really bothered me as well. I'm pretty new to illustrator; so I was unsure on how to do that. I'm going to have to look that up and see if I can figure something out.

[Bronze]

I really dig that rocket one.

[Jim North]

really cool! One thing to note, though, on the Cassete graphic. The letters aren't in perspective with the tape. There should be a way to do that in Illustrator, so it's fixable, but's a little distracting from an otherwise awesome graphic.

Yeah that really bothered me as well. I'm pretty new to illustrator; so I was unsure on how to do that. I'm going to have to look that up and see if I can figure something out.

It can definitely be done in Photoshop, and quite easily, too, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out on Illustrator.

[Matador]

Yeah, but transform works differently in Illustrator. I looked under warp in filter's as well as effects. There's probably a different name for it instead of perspective, or I might be blind.

[Ignatz]

I really dig that rocket one.

thanks, bronze. That one is kinda weird. I always liked the idea and some aspects of it, but I was never really pleased with the whole thing.


As for the transforming, I don't know what it is listed as on illustrator. I have a creeping suspion though that you might not be able to directly do it to texts because: on photoshop you have to rasterize the text before you do transform>perspective/warp. But on illustrator if you rasterize the text, you are being somewhat counter-productive since the whole purpose of illustrator is using vectors. It's weird being proficient with photoshop and then switching to using illustrator. It pulls the rug from under you.

[Matador]

Rasterizing Text in Illustrator transforms it from editable text to editable vectors.

[Gin]

1) Type text
2) Right-click > "Create Outlines"
3) Filter > Free Distort

Ta-daaaa.

It bothers me that you can really clearly see where you painted "outside the lines" on the Explosions in the Sky thing. It would be stylish if it didn't look like a mistake.

[Ignatz]

1) Type text
2) Right-click > "Create Outlines"
3) Filter > Free Distort

Ta-daaaa.

It bothers me that you can really clearly see where you painted "outside the lines" on the Explosions in the Sky thing. It would be stylish if it didn't look like a mistake.

Ah, thanks gin. And where did I color outside the line on the EIST piece? I originally had it real choppy and not confined, but then I went back and cleaned it up to just the persons. I suppose I missed a spot.

[Gin]

Play with your monitor's brightness settings and you'll probably see it. Either that or open it in photoshop and look at it under different colour channels. There's a big "cloud" hanging to Mr. Blue's left and a lot of noise around Mr. Yellow. Mr. Green's a bit better, but there's still some noise floating around his neck and both shoulders.

[Matador]

[Ignatz]

haha, shit. well there you go; i got some work to do.

alright, all better.

[kleptoman]

That's pretty cool. Did you think about colouring the drum mic's or the cimbals different colours too?

[Ignatz]

I did, but it would create a conflict with it being so close to the guy on the right (since there is fair space between each guitarist). Also, I decided not to highlight the drums since the drummer wasn't visible. I was actually pretty upset that I did not get a decent photo of the full band.