Ok my bad. So I-Tunes didn't give up a gem of a title this month. Here's hoping for better luck in March.
So yeah I decided to take the title literally. Very literally! I think it harks back to days of drawing/designing trainers when I was younger. Along with super duper fancy hot rod cars and football strips while we're on that thought pattern…
But anyways, this is where I was standing. I had my tigers on, it was all good.
To preempt some possible feedback, I'm thinking I am kind of finding my style in terms of my IST responses. Hand drawn, dumped into photoshop where it's coloured and delivered with a flat-ish finish. That's kind of what I'm going for. Ta
8 comments:
This is really good. Great colours, great treatment. I agree with your finding your "feet" (groan) in terms of style too.
I also used to draw trainers and cars. Air Max, Dodge chargers and lamborghinis. All the greats!
Ha, nice one. I came very close to this being my fallback... could have been very similar again!
I used to draw football kits! Between us we obviously had some very similar aspects of childhood!
Just some additional thoughts...
In all honesty I think this is caught in the middle of two things: clean vector lines/shapes, and hand drawn/rough/free illustration.
Personally, I think this would work better if you stuck with one or the other, ie. nice bold vector outlines, very hard, flat and crisp. If you wanted to go more traditional, make the line work a bit free-er, a bit more energetic or less contained.
The other way it could have gone actually, is more ultra-realistic. At the moment, with the concrete floor there is a hint but the brightness of the colours don't quite sit with it - there is texture on the floor but not on the shoes. Maybe something to play with?
I think that the idea could work but in my mind (I hope you excuse the brutal honesty) I think it narrowly misses the mark.
Does that make sense? Sorry if that comes across as negative, just thought some constructive criticism might be useful, and there's no use sitting on the fence! ;)
Thanks Owen, appreciate you being proper straight. I understand what you are saying and it's food for thought going forwards.
The look I achieved this month is very much as I intended. Just wanted to have a really bright illustration contrasting against the cold concrete. Know it jars on the eye but that was floating my boat. Kinda happy with this one - that's why like IST so much variety and very subjective.
Cool, no probs!
Looking at some of your amazing sketches on gallusness.com, I think it might have been cool to see it done in that sort of style, with some nice colour washes in photoshop, or done with big thick outlines and nice flat colours in illustrator - but hey! That's just me!
No, you are wrong Mr Jones!
The contrast is great, creates interest and draws the eye to what's important, i.e. the shoes. The delicate texture on the shoes is lovely and representational. You've done all the right things to make the nods to reality, but left the drawing parts.
I thinks it's great. Any more "reality" and you veer into photo-realness, which is fine, but not what you were going for.
I'm on the other side of the fence!
I saw these early and had a mull. Generally I like that we can trade feedback like this. It's healthy and definitely helps going forward.
Overall I achieved the look I hoped for this month which for me was pretty good going. Well judging by my posting history on here. The style is a little more formal than some of my other work but that's probably more out of standing up, studying/measuring my feet and then sitting down to relate those findings to paper. Trust me it was a wee bit trickier than first imagined.
I'm still looking for those amazing sketches on www.gallusness.com must've missed them somewhere.
In a final thought I've had an early idea for this months title. If decide to go with it it's a little cheeky. Say no more, say no more nudge nudge wink wink and all that.
Ha, I can see when I'm outnumbered, and I am more than happy to leave it there! Glad you are pleased with it, that's the main thing.
The drawings I'm talking about are : http://www.gallusness.com/index.php?/personal/drawing/
...false modesty I'm afraid Mr Gallusness! Lovely work there. ;)
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