Community: Peer Review 06
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Image Category: Black and White
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Designer: Robert Sarudy
Details: Hi, I have tried to create this vector fly by tracing a photo. Could you please give me some tips in Peer Review on how to improve this picture or achieve better depth in the image?
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It would be nice to be able to see a bigger example. Anyway, it looks like the eyes are made from a halftone gradient? It would be interesting to see what it would look like if you used a little distort action with the either a warp or a mesh and really make that eye pop out. Otherwise it looks amazing as is.
Thanks for your tip. If you want to see a bigger picture here is a link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2581380/Fly%201.PNG
This is reference picture that I used: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2581380/Fly.jpg
Heavily inspired or you should really take a look at the master’s website: siscottstudio.com
Yes, I was inspired by this tutorial: http://abduzeedo.com/create-badass-gas-mask-illustrator
which I have first followed step by step to create that mask, and when I realized that it is all about pen tool, I decided to trace some photo for fun to see if I can do it by myself. I found out that the most challenging thing for me is to achieve perspective and depth using black and white shapes.
BTW I didn’t know about siscottstudios website. Thanks for tip. They have amazing works there.
I think every graphic designer have their own style. Me, like a design with absolutely no blur and gradients. I think your design is too much complicated. To much detail but you didn’t make the viewer get the message from your design.
I think a good design is a design that can get the attention from the person who view it at the first time.
But, most of the most important is keep your own style at designing.
Here are a few tips:
1.) The wings could be more realistic by being a little bit transparent.
2.) Look at a couple of different photos of a fly for inspiration and features of the fly to get a better idea
3.) If you find a photo of the fly’s eye, you can find out exactly what shape it is. Then create that shape and make it a pattern using Illustrator’s Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform… then when you’re done, use the clipping mask to “crop” to the final overall eye shape. It’d be a better, interesting detail.
4.) Reduce some of the details of the fly and make it simple as possible but recognizable.
Hope that helps… good luck!
Very Interesting piece here i actually really like it at the moment. Few things that I feel could be improved at the moment:
- The wings definitely need a bit of improvement, transparency as stated above is a big part of the flys wings they also dont have straight dashed lines in their wings their more like veins running through them.
- The eyes these are made up of hundreds of dots (Just check out macro shots of flys) so the detail here could be improved.
Apart from that I really like this piece and im not sure why “Fajar: didn’t make the viewer get the message” But to be fair his post didn’t make much sense.
Keep up the good work!
Think about the lighting. You’re getting it on the tail, but then you have all this bright white going on with the front of the body, and the back is all dark – keeping lighting consistent really adds to the believability of a piece.
Thanks for all your comments guys. And also for guidance and all the advices that you have given me.