Illustration Friday: Travel

My second week at doing Illustration Friday! This is quite fun.

Horse Head
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Project
Come up with an illustration for “Travel” for Illustration Friday .

Mechanics
Illustrator 9.0 with an amazingly wonderful recent gift — brand spanking new Wacom Intuos3 9×12 tablet! Raar! Anyway… wanted to use Illustrator CS’s scribble effect but did this over the weekend so no access to CS at school. (Makes me want to update…)

I thought long and hard about this week’s theme. At first, I had an image of a horse with rider walking away from the viewer. The rider is parallel with the horse but her head is slightly turned to show a profile. But then I simplified the idea even more so that the viewer is the rider.

I then tried putting a shadow on the bridle and realized there’s a drop shadow effect. I selected all pieces and applied it as follows:

Drop shadow choices

I think I like with shadows more. It gives it a pieced together paper feel.

And then…
Maybe if the shadows were tighter, it would look more like paper layering. I like how the grass hills look with the dropshadow. But the horse head gets a little busy with all the pieces, but it adds depth and variety. Neat thing is that since it’s on layers, I can swap out the background with all sorts of things…

Horse with photo
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Published:
04.03.05
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Design, Illustration Friday, Projects