Illustration Friday’s theme for this week is “Racing”. Running events are all around the country these days. It’s good that people now are more involved in healthy activities like running. I’ve tried joining one year ago, and I’m hoping to participate again in the future.
“Racing” - Vector work in Illustrator
Since it’s the spooky month of October, let’s keep the terror coming! It’s all about “Spooky” things in this week’s Illustration Friday.
The mythical creature in this illustration is called an Aswang. Aswang is a generic term used in Philippine mythology for supernatural beings like manananggals (half-body of a human, with bat-like wings), witches, shapeshifters, and lycanthropes. These creatures are described as having an ordinary human body by day, then transforming into a monstrous creature (usually animals) at night.
“Spooky” Vector work in Illustrator
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
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
There is something fascinating about monster characters. Their uniqueness and out-of-this-world characteristics must be the factors making them interesting, for me at least.
There’s this blog called Monsters in Real Places(MIRP). They allow artists from all over the world to submit art for the MIRP community. For the submissions, they require the use of any photograph, and as the artist, you should create and add a monster into the photo. I got interested in the blog, so I made something to share with the community. Unfortunately, the blog has been idle for months already, so I’ll just share and post my work here.
Chasey on my desk. He's actually my cousin's dog.
You can visit the MIRP blog if you want to see the other submissions. Happy weekend!
**Update: It has been uploaded last September 8 in the MIRP blog. Check it out here.
Just Doodle 