I came across an art post at deviantart.com - this is the finished product:
It was created from scratch with Adobe Illustrator, it seems. There's even screenshots of the progress, so you know it's true.
In the same vein, here's a picture of a cat in a windowsill that I made from scratch with crayons and glitterglue.
Is it just me, or does the pic of the girl seem fake? As in, a photograph of a real person, not art generated from scratch. Not that people aren't capable of such amazing feats of talent and skill, but...
"Your", even.
ReplyDeleteOk, I can completely vouch that the Illustrator picture is real. What they missed out was the photograph BEHIND the step by step that the artist was working from.
ReplyDeleteIt's fairly easy, but very time consuming.
You simply 'paint over' the photo using vectors. You block out the main colours (highlights, shades midtones), the just keep refining and refining.
Eventually, you're just setting color values for for almost individual pixels.
Then you use gradient meshes to get the shading spot on. Best way I can describe it, is it's a lot like making a model for a computer game character
PS, just search for 'vector tutorial on deviantart...it'll explain how it's done.
ReplyDeleteSo... it's complicated tracing? Hmph. I'm not impressed.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paulius for the info!
Well...It's a little bit more than tracing...but a lot simpler than it looks.
ReplyDeleteI just have no interest in it. It's more like putting together a large complicated puzzle than 'art'. That one picture probably took about 40 hours work to complete.
Of course, it gets a lot of recognition just for the sheer novelty factor.