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Published: 2011-04-24 10:44:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 6409; Favourites: 55; Downloads: 259
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It might be a cliche nowadays, but I nonetheless have a fascination with Asian ladies. They have a singular beauty.Illustrator CS4, mesh & pen tools.
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i suck in illustrator (and couldn't imagine anything like your art was possible from that program!) TEACH ME, MASTER!!
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I used to suck at Illustrator too. Then I took a class and found out I was actually pretty good at it. I had no idea.
Still couldn't grasp meshes though, but I was determined to figure them out. So I knuckled down and just started making meshes. That's how I've learned most of the design programs out there - just messing around, not letting them intimidate me. My first meshes sucked, but I kept at it and eventually got better at them. The best advice I could give anyone who wants to learn Illustrator is just to mess with it, play with it. Use a tool, see what it does. Draw something, then do it again. Refine it, expand it, add to it. Do it enough and you'll cease to suck at it.
Thanks for all the comments.
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Yeah, go for it. It wont bite.
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holy mother of God! how did you do this on Illustrator?
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Patience. Lot's of patience.
Thanks for looking
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sooooo pretty so simple and beautiful!!! Great job on this!!!
and i do to they are so pretty!!!!
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You've got a real talent for gradient meshes. Beautiful work!
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I appreciate that, thank you.
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Ahh yes, I'm also one of the many who can't get past Photoshop. Vectors aren't my bestfriend. This piece is really stunning though, I'm not sure who she is but those are the definite features of an Asian lady
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If you're going into some kind of design career, I would highly advise getting into the other programs. It's a necessity for those careers. Plus, it's really rewarding to a creative person.
Her name is Fan Bingbing, btw. She's an actress in China.
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I'm going into animation - although if I fail at that, I would take your advise and dabble in illustrator (right now I'm pretty clueless about the different file formats and how to make it become a jpg and stuff)
Alright, I'll wiki her up
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Might be a good thing to learn how to use all the various programs anyway, even if you do continue with animation. You will find yourself needing those 2D programs from time to time in the animation field as well.
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how did you do the eyebrows? stroke by stroke?
Tried to do the same thing. I'm having trouble blending things together. For example, a meshed nose blended with a meshed face.
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I'll usually start out with a simple mesh for eyebrows. You can often see a kind of solid color shape beneath the hair on eyebrows. I approximate that shape with a mesh or sometimes just a regular gradient, then draw the hairs, using a very small brush with a low opacity. Draw a tuft of hair that looks realistic and then select that tuft and duplicate it a bunch of times across the brow. Then you begin selecting individual hairs and moving them around and deleting others until you get a good looking and relatively random-looking arrangement of hairs.
Blending meshes is also a bit of an art. You begin by sampling the edge of the neighboring meshes for each point on a mesh. Of course, sometimes that sampling isn't accurate, so in those cases you have to manually match it by sampling an area of similar color repeatedly with the Eyedropper tool until the blend appears seamless. It can be a bit of work.
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Do you also use mask to blend one mesh to the next?
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Rarely. I suppose I could, but I find it just as easy to match colors between meshes.
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wow! you did a great great great job! i suffer from the asian feaver too. lol i love the highlights!!
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Very good.
She is a very beautiful actress in china.and I will favorite it if you do not mind.
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Illustrator, oh wow. I never dared to draw a human with that, so far I have only drawn technical things and products with it (at work, so the stuff is not online here in my gallery)... wonderful work!
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Illustrator is capable of some pretty diverse uses. Too bad many people never get past Photoshop.
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Oh I know! I have been drawing with it in a photorealistic way as well as this is part of my job. Maybe this is why I never dared to touch it for private pictures. Also my works have always been dead things, never something alive.
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