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Published: 2006-06-17 16:06:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1666; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 259
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A good friend and mentor.
Inspired by Al Hirschfeld. It's fun exploring this style.
It's also incredible how long it can take to make something so simple.
Sketched in Painter IX, line art in Illustrator.
26 hours. Completed 2 days ago :)
I was glad to see him smile.
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ol I didn't even recognise the title >_>
And sure!!
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Thanks. A lot of people actually think it doesn't look like the person I'm portraying... but they can go wank a donkey.
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I love this 
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Thanks. I actually re-did his hair twice so I'm glad the outcome is satisfactory
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I like it a lot!
I was just messing with vectors yesterday (my results came out sort of caricaturish, too, though it wasnβt my direct intent), and thinking about how long it can take just to put together a single line. Itβs crazy. Itβs worth it, though. I think I have a long way to go before my vector lines start looking as smooth and seamless as yours do, though!
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I seriously think that vectors is one of the most challenging forms of digital art, because it's rather difficult to express heavy emotion, as opposed to digital painting. Vectors are usually used for pop-art and whatnot, and somehow, because of the way they're structured, they usually lack a certain depth. At least that's how I think. Which is why, time-consuming as they may be, I love the challenge in using vectors to express the same level of depth and emotion as that of a digital painting.
God my English sucks today. I'm so Asian.
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That makes sense. And it also gives an interesting perspective on vector art.
This is sorta unrelated, but what you wrote reminds me of something I was thinking a lot about during my first year of art college . . . comedy is very important to me, and I definitely want to do something someday involving both comedy and art, but what exact creative mediums I want to do this through are still unclear to me. All I know is that aside from childrenβs illustration (itβs been a dream of mine since I was in my early teens to one day illustrate and possibly even write a childrenβs book or a series of childrenβs books, lmao Iβm lame), Iβm kind of interested in finding a way to be comedic/humorous in a format that isnβt typically looked at for expressing comedy. Like, lots of people who enjoy absorbing themselves in and attempting to create humor will go for things like animation or comic design, but things like that donβt really appeal to me. I like looking at them, I mean; I just donβt feel a drive to learn how to do those types of things myself, at least not in this moment of time. I want to attempt to find (possibly even make my own) format for that sort of thing.
I really started thinking about that when, in one of my schoolβs galleries during the year, there was a statue made by a student that was a classical sculpture of a manβs head, while on his shoulder was a bright and colorful little Pixar character (which specific one eludes me at the moment). I thought that was awesome, haha. And it was much more entertaining to look at than many other things in that room. I donβt know; when some of my serious art studies were hung up in one of my schoolβs galleries, I felt sort of weird about it, because they didnβt have so much an element of humor in them, and if people I donβt know are going to be looking at/possibly analyzing stuff Iβve made, Iβd rather amuse them than attempt to convey anything profound. Not that thereβs anything wrong with intellectually in-depth works. Just that, being that Iβm sort of not very serious-feeling a lot, itβs not what I usually feel comfortable trying to do, if that makes any sense.
Wow Iβm rambling a lot. My english is probably worse, and Iβm a native speaker of the language. 
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Well first of all, English is my mother tongue
Anyway, back to you. It's awesome and completely not lame for you to want to illustrate and write children's books. Hell, it's what I want to do, too, at some point in my life (but I'm interested in a lot of things to do with illustration and design). In regard to the "humour" aspect, though, in my opinion, it's best to just... experiment, experiment, experiment. Try not to look for it so hard. These things always "come" naturally, but not in the sense that you sit on your ass and just wait for the big moment to fly by or some lame shit like that. Know what I mean? :) It's like conciously looking at the hands of a clock to literally watch the time pass. Wow how completely irrelevant ... I've always been bad with examples and whatsmecalls... that word that I think begins with a "C"... or something, or is it an "A"... it's pretty much the equivalent of "examples", except in a more... different... way.
Fuck.
What the hell has happened to my vocabulary.
But you get the idea :) I hope. EXPERIMENT! instead of conciously looking for the style you want. Get your feet wet in all areas! Just like Picasso 
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Wise words, them be.
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He's definetely a gentleman, I tell you that.
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I really like the simplicity and relaxed feel of this piece. It really flows well! Great stuff 
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Well, I tried :) I'm glad you enjoy it.
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Mmm. Really impressive work, Katie.
I love tip-of-the-hat artwork to artists. It's like breathing in new life.
I hope that the person whom this is for can appreciate the beauty in this.
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I was glad that my friend enjoyed this. I don't really know where he put it though... probably somewhere in his office, though I never tried to find it.
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... lovely form, so fluid and lyrical, this has a incredible amount of warmth and life to it...
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Thank you Gary
I tried. It's definitely a challenging style.
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Holy wow, thats incredible, you are passing on a beautiful style. Happy birthday indeed.
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Who is Charles ._.
This is nice, I like the outpouring of character.
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Charles is my boss. And my friend.
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I made muffins at 3am last night! :]
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Great detail on the hair, nice style (as usual with your drawings). I'd like to see some kind of background/location behind him, but then again the minimalism is good.
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great work
I imagine 26 hours on that must have been alot of tedious manipulation of the lines
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Love the lines in the hair
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No problem 
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The lineart is exquisite! Especially his hair. Definitely an awesome style. Kudos to you Katie.
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That hair must have taken some time. Definitely the most exquisite part.
Also, I really like this new style of yours... new, more or less. It sort of reminds me of the style a caricature is drawn, only it's more defined and honest.
I take it he liked the drawing? :]
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The hair was pretty awful... I re-did it twice.
And yes, he loved it, or so it seemed
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I really love this style, and here it looks fabulous.
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indeed. making something "complex" by definition very "simple" can be a tough job.
workin on some vectorial right now, and it's driving me a bit crazy (although it's pretty different in style from this, but still...)
<3 for the inspiration it gave me XD
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Hey, it's awesome for ANYONE to take on Vectors. Illustrator is a really complex program for most... though I caught on really quickly for some reason. I guess it was luck :)
Looking to see some new vectors from you!
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