This week’s Illustration Friday is all about Transportation. I would love to try riding a hot air balloon, with the sweet, cold wind blowing, and the hot rays of the sun shining on millions of houses and creatures below; that would be fun.
“Transportation” - vector work in Illustrator
One aspect of life constantly changing is fashion. Not just because of its root word, I guess a whole lot of you would agree that fashion would best represent this week’s Illustration Friday theme “Old-fashioned”.
I accidentally messed up the ink here. I always tend to forget to keep avoiding the wet ink. Here it is anyway.
“Old-fashioned” ink and watercolor on watercolor paper
It really pays to keep a sketchbook and fill it up with ideas as often as you could. Just recently, I wanted to make a vector illustration and had no idea what to illustrate. So here comes my sketchbook to the rescue.
Most of the time, I prefer to sketch my ideas first before doing the vector works in Illustrator. Nothing beats pencil(or any sketching medium you prefer) and paper in fully and freely rendering your ideas. Here’s a peek at my work process. I would love to show you my detailed illustration process in a future post.
Original Pencil Sketch
Tracing the Shapes In Flat Colors
Adding the Details - “Play Time” Final Vector Illustration
Illustration Closeup
Acrobat is this week’s Illustration Friday theme. Here’s an acrobat act known as Aerial Silk/s. Artists perform Aerial Silk/s stunts using a hanging fabric.
Illustration Friday #4 “Acrobat”ink and watercolor on watercolor paper
Since faces look strange upside down, I'm including an inverted version
Here are several videos of Aerial Silks acts.
The Illustration Friday topic for the week is “Proverb”. Here’s the proverb I chose to illustrate: “A penny saved is a penny earned.”
“Proverb” ink and watercolor on watercolor paper
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