Struan Shields

For an IB Art assignment, we had to do a piece in the style of another artist. I choose the famous American quasi-pop artist Alex Katz. While Katz is a painter his simple style is pretty similar to my vector style so it was a natural choice. For the portrait I took at snapshot of a friend and then worked on it in Adobe Illustrator CS3 for a couple hours. I kept it pretty simple because I have to do three more people for the assignment. You can expect those soon.

Metro Mk. II

When I first created the Metro Map design shirt earlier , I realized that it would be really difficult to put that design onto a silkscreen. This iteration of the design addresses this issue by adding a pleasing gradient to the end of each line. This will eventually be available for purchase on a shirt.

Nicholson Two Lower Football Club

This is a design concept for the crest of my brother's college intramural soccer team. This design is based mostly off of the crests of English soccer clubs. This took me like two seconds in Inkscape.

When Boarding, Please Move to the Center of the Car

This is the latest idea I've had for the t-shirts i'm thinking about selling, although this would be a pretty complex silk screen job... It's the DC Metro subway system map without all of the stop labeled and everything. I really like the concept of the shirt and hopefully someday it will find its way onto something. It was done in about two hours in Inkscape.

Wage Peace Mk. II

This is an update of one of my favorite pieces, Wage Peace. I decided to start from scratch with it and take it in a different direction, I get more of a modern feel from it then the 1960's vibe from the other (from the style and type).

Although I began original work on Wage Peace before I had seen ~russoturisto 's piece .A.U.T.O.M.A.T. logotype, found here, I was slightly influenced by it this time around even though ~russoturisto (gallery here ) is far superior :). I hope like for the original, that this will end up on t-shirts so i included a TON of variations for different styles and colors.

Click on it to see it in a bigger size (it's pretty big).

Gem Practice

I drew this gem/ jewel icon for practice for doing reflective surfaces as well as for having it for my huge upcoming project that I can't talk about until May or so :). Anyway, I found a great online tutorial, available at the DesignCast Blog. It walks you through the process in about half an hour. Overall I'm pretty pleased with the way it came out.

Warning, Emotional Children Near

I got the idea to do a comical warning after browsing through deviantART one day. My inspiration comes from =SRotherham's piece, Ennui. It was just a fun little doodle that only took me about half an hour.

New Sig

After drawing this in my school notebooks for months, I finally decided to turn this design into a vector. It's actually if you look closely my name, let's see if you can figure it out.

Something Big's Coming

I've been kinda of inactive on the blog lately, more active on deviantART anyway. Well my friend's sweet sixteen is in August and I want to give her something special. I already vectored her (it's Sasha) before but I'm overhauling my style. Before I used to do more of a cutout style for the hair, but know I've taken on the daunting task of vectoring each strand individually...yeah. I've already put in over 4 hours of work and I'm really exciting in how it looks.

Kelley

Yet another vector of a friend. This one took about three hours to complete in Inkscape. The a little bit tricky and I decided not to add her freckles because it would have taken forever...

Corina

This one is way way way way way overdue, Corina was the first person to ask me to draw her :/ :). But here it is finally :). This one didn't take as long, just some fiddling with the hair took a while. Overall, about 2.5 hours of work. I'm still not crazy about the way the hair turned out though, its the hardest part...:/

Sasha

This is probably the hardest vector I've done, especially when working with her multi-dimensional hair. Thats the last time I'll vector a blonde :P. I really like the way it came out, almost exactly like the photo I used. I'm still wondering whether I should put more work into the hair though. It took about 5 hours in Inkscape. Leave your thoughts in the comments :)

Lauren

This is a simple vector "cut out" of a friend. It doesn't have as much detail as the other ones but i still like the way it came out. It took about two hours working on and off in Inkscape. It was challenging though because the source image was not that large to begin with so that made the hair especially difficult so I cut down on details there.

Annie

This is my third stab at vector portraits and i really like the way it came out. I'm totally digging the way that her glasses came out with a simple gradient. As always leave comments.

Grace

This vector is my second stab at a person focusing on their hair. This is one of my friends that i decided to vector. I think that it came out better than my other person because it used more colors but I'm still not 100% satisfied with the outcome. Guess I have to keep practicing. It took me about three hours in Inkscape.

This That & Struan Shields goes under the pen

This vector portrait is of the front man to my favorite local band, This That & Struan Shields, none other than Struan Shields. This vector was a challenge because I'm really bad at doing hair. I like the way the vector came out overall and gives me a good starting point for drawing people. It took about three hours in Inkscape. Be sure to comment and check out This That & Struan Shields at their MySpace at: http://www.myspace.com/struanshields.

Master Chief Inked

This is a vector of Master Chief from the Halo series that a drew a while ago. I put both the colored and uncolored versions for comparison. I personally like the monochrome one better though. I can't remember how long this took me but it was a while in Inkscape. Enjoy.

Wage Peace

This piece was done on the same wave of thinking as the last post, protests and all that. I imagined this being worn on shirts and buttons at anti-war rallies and the like. It took me about an hour and a half in Inkscape. I'll add the link to the deviantART deviant when i get the chance. Comments are appreciated.

Drop Beats Not Bombs

This was a vector I did as a t shirt idea. I really like the way this turned out, especially the font. It took about an hour and a half from start to end in Inkscape. Let me know if you like it in the comments.

Clone Trooper Doodle: If George Lucas was into weebles...

Soon after completing my previous vector I wanted to do almost a caricature of a Clone Trooper. After a quick sketch, scan, and inking in Inkscape, this is what I had. A cutesy little trooper on the outskirts of a plain and simple Geonosis. Hit up the link for the deviant and comments with thoughts.

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