Today we were shown how to use Illustrator more effectively in order to make our Illustrations transfer digitally. We need to do this in order to put the Illustration on a banner (vinyl) for the festival.
We were shown how to do auto tracing and manual tracing depending on the art work scanned.
Our mentor for the workshop said we could use paint/pencil tool in illustrator to manually trace our illustrations. We were also shown how to use the paintbrushes, (not as stupid as it sounds) how we can make them into brushes/stamps, change the pattern sizes and separate them (if one) from each other.
She suggested to make our own patterns which would work better as we need it to transfer it digitally, as well as showing us how to use illustrator she made some suggestions with our illustrations, one being to stick to a limited colour palette to make it easier for the computer to register the colours.
I chose to take 3 of my most successful designs forward. The first one I chose was obvious because of how the illustration represents itself, with the feel that the wind is blowing the trees.
I used oil pastel for the background colour and used fine liner pens to create the trees over the top.
Again, I used oil pastel for the background and use a white gel pen to create a tree.
This illustration was created using watercolour only.
secondly I chose the overprinting trees because I really liked experimenting with printing and the process of it, to go out of my comfort zone and to have my tutor be pleased with how I had created the illustration.
Original Illustration
Overprinted Illustration
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