Stop & Post February 2012

[ankhor]

A temp office I worked for are 25 years in business, so I made a new logo to congratulate them.
Just for fun and it is cheapier then a gift, they probably never use it, like many gifts, again.

[ZEBtoonz]

Here's a recent pic I did for a story I illustrated.

[iamtheblues]

This is what I'm currently working on in DP7. Its a detail from a 6 letter text to which i wanted to add a grunge effect. The font I used was a stencil font that already had a spray-paint effect and I embellished this by creating two clones of different colours, both given a fractal plasma transparency with a profile that punched holes through to the two text versions beneath.This method turns the text into pixels, so as I wanted a pure vector set of objects, I used the bitmap tracer to convert back to vector shapes. I had a white outline around the individual letters, and when re-vectorized, some spurious coloured shapes resulted. I changed the colour of the art board to a teal colour to contrast with everything and better to see the unwanted lighter colours. The end result will be a three colour vector grunge text effect. I still have one letter left to do.
Bob.

[Barb]

ZEBtoonz, I like this--I like your style. Can I be you when I grow up?

[ZEBtoonz]

ZEBtoonz, I like this--I like your style. Can I be you when I grow up?

Sure you can, Barb! You can be anything you want to be but you can only be one person, yourself. But I suppose you meant my artistic skill. Sure, it's all yours for the taking! Just draw and doodle and have fun and observe others stuff that you like and want to learn from. Why reinvent the wheel when there are those around you doing stuff you like? Figure out how they did and what it is that you like about it, then try to recreate it. You'll learn lots along the way.

[wizard509]

Good advice Zeb. I know when I was delineating we all learned from each other. If I saw something I liked I remembered and tried to do maybe one little part of it. If I liked it I remembered it and if I didn't I promptly for got it. Eventually those things built up in my memory bank and skills. It wasn't copying just building up techniques that became my mine, by that I mean I would put my own twist on it and made it useful to me.
First you learn the rules then when you become proficient you can successfully break the rules. It's all part of learning your chosen craft.

[ZEBtoonz]

Here's a recent pic I did for a story I illustrated.

I just noticed this got published online and has a couple more illustrations in it plus the story. Here's the link:

http://www.mywonderstudio.com/level-...-pictures.html

[gwpriester]

By way of update. The publisher picked none of our suggested designs which has us batting 1000%. They have not used one design we submitted for anything. Last book we ever do with them.