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Workshop: Vector Critique #25
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Workshop: Vector Critique #25

on Nov 30th 2012 with 4 comments

Vectortuts+ is all about helping people turbo charge their skills, and today we have another special community post that will help our readers take their images to the next level. The best thing is, you can be part of it too! Find out more at the jump.

How to Participate:

  • This workshop contributor has offered a piece of work that they would like help with, please keep this in mind when you share your thoughts. The images are not perfect, but they can be with the right advice and some friendly encouragement. (Vectortuts+ reserves the right to delete any rude comments)
  • If you’re better with pictures (let’s face it, most of us are) feel free to take a screenshot of the image using Little Snapper, Skitch or a similar program and paste a link to the annotated image in the comments section with an explanation of the tweaks.

If you want to take part in the next Vectortuts+ Workshop:

Add your work to our facebook photo gallery or submit it via the Tuts+ Workshop form, with a description about the piece and the help/advice you’re looking for. We will chose one to be published on our site as part of the next Vectortuts+ Workshop, if you’re not chosen straight away – don’t worry – your work will be chosen for a future session.

Designer: Dmiriy Ivanov

Details:

"Hello everyone. I’m 22 years old and I’m from Ukraine. I’m a musician and I like Tees from my favourite bands such as Asking Alexadria. So I wanted to draw something for my band. Without skills in drawing I began to learn Illustrator and PS. I didn’t know from what to start. So this were my first steps. It was hard and exciting, by using only Pen Tool I drew my first graphic. Now I really like Glenn Jones tees and graphics and trying to draw in this way. Now I’m thinking about getting some professional skills, I want to work in some Graphics Studio, to level up my skills.

I like brutal pics for Tees and I wanted to express some emotions of hard music. Also I like to draw some funny pics and characters.

If you like my design just visit my deviantART page to see other works."

Feedback

What are your thoughts on the work above? Critiquing work helps the artist see new possibilities, and it also helps you learn to evaluate art, which will help you take that same analysis and apply it to your own work. Participate in the comments below with your opinions on how to improve the work above.

 
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Sharon Milne aka ChewedKandi is an Illustrator and Writer specialising in vector art. She's from the North East of England. She's also our Editor on Vectortuts+. You can check out her website portfolio by going to ChewedKandi.net and keep up to date via her Facebook page.  

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  • Spud

    I love your work, this is an amazing peice. The text is a little subdued and hard to read, it doesn’t really stand out, I think it might be better with larger letters with a color that contrasts more with the colors around it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrea.webbkesavan Andrea Webb-Kesavan

    Love your style, it really looks great! One thing I think could be approved upon is the hat. It seems to be lacking some definition, kind of hard to tell whats really going on with it. It also looks like it’s sitting a bit too high on the head. Perhaps try lowering where the back of the hat meets the triangle shaped piece. Other than that awesome job!! :)

  • nephilistic

    The Idea and coloring are good, and the strokes are very flowy and look well drawn. there’s potential in your work!As a critique I’d say you made a good job sketching out your work, but didnt keep it together too well after the coloring.

    You could try to put a stronger focus on the outlines, and keep them connected more – as you are using a lot of linework in the coloring too (which I absolutely like), the black outlines start to fade away and get lost in the colored lines – that makes the graphic look a flat and too busy.

    Don’t be afraid to use more black and stronger outlines and to go very dark on the shadows, like in the back of the head and in the mouth – you did put darker colors in there, but it might just be not enough to give it the proper depth and dimension. And try to keep your outlines more connected, like in the area around the teeth and mouth, where you just have black strokes appearing sporadically.
    (btw you did a better job regarding this on your spartan tshirt)

    To practice that I would suggest to you to ditch the coloring for a few images, and focus on getting a solid look and some depth with black and white only. Once you feel confident about that, go back in with the colors and build on top of your lighting/shading.

    And most importantly: To step it up as an illustrator, go away from the computer and draw on paper! Even if you suck at drawing, you’ll get better quickly, just do it! Doodle stuff and try to draw every day. Not only will you get better very quickly, it will also help your understanding of the linework you do A LOT, even if you only work with the pen tool.

    Rock on! :)

  • Patrick

    Just reoutline the outer lines of the skull with a larger, bold, black lines. Other than that the only thing I don’t like is the lettering.