Workshop: Vector Critique #30
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Workshop: Vector Critique #30

on Mar 1st 2013 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.

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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: Tobiasz Konieczny

Details:

" Illustration for Mama Studio, a Warsaw based graphic design and branding family. "

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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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  • http://twitter.com/VectorInsider Tobiasz Konieczny

    thanks @vectortuts ! <3

  • rolandlg

    Hi there! excelent work by the way… in my humble opinion this is a work of art! jejeje Im neither an expert nor a profecional in the field but i noticed two things 1st you used a difernt aproach to shade the faces (w/gradients) and dont know if that was the style but it difers from the rest of the image and 2. the flap on the mans coat is a bit exagerated? i think well for the rest i thin is a good piece! keep on creating!!!

  • Melody Hill

    I’m not a pro either. I’m actually very new to Illustrator and not very good. But I can still give feed back, for what it’s worth.

    I like your piece. I love the colours, because they’re all in place and compliment each other. I like the mystery. Maybe it’s cause I’m not the artist, and I don’t know what the work means, but I like that their faces are blank. Makes me wonder why, artistically, symbolically, you chose to do that. What it means. I like that it’s simple looking but not cartoony at all. You use gradients well and everything flows. I like that you kind of have a fourth character in the small picture the girl is holding, perhaps a general who died in war–the father (at least that’s what I imagine…)

    The man’s coat is a little confusing to me. Why is the right side collar so different from the left? I guess the orientation visualizing teh way the coat is turned inside out is hard–for me. Also I feel like if you laid out the coat as its depicted in the work, the guy’s left side (the one with the coat flaring out, would be larger than the other side, when normally a coat is symmetrical.

    Is that a cover on top of the girl’s picture? Maybe you could work on making the cover flow more like a sheet. It could be a stiff cover, maybe it is.

    I love your style. It’s unique and distinct. Keep it up! Thanks for sharing this with us. I hope some of my comments helped some. :) Good luck.

  • http://twitter.com/ThePeej PJ Stephen

    I really like this piece. I think as mentioned previously, the colours are spot on. I also echo the previous sentiment that the man’s jacket is slightly distracting. I understand it’s intended to be blowing in the wind and flipped open. That much I get. But there is an issue with it appearing to be a much larger flap than the corresponding side which serves to distract. The missing limb on the female figure is appropriately striking. The lack of blood or explanation almost adds to the calm and uneasy macabre. One suggestion I would give is to add some form of distortion to the background elements in order to push them away from the figures in the foreground. You could add a light gaussian blur to the mountain and rolling hills which would serve to separate them from the three figures. OR, better yet you could simply lighten the tones of all of those shapes. (similar to the way mountains that are progressively further away appear whiter in photographs. Atmospheric distortion.) Since this is a request for critique, I’m going to nit-pick a bit deeper than I think is needed. The left figures right shoulder feels too broad compared to her left. And I also find the crest symbol on her jacket is too detailed. My eye is drawn to it over the less detailed or sharply toned elements. Perhaps this is an intentional choice made to highlight a storytelling point. In which case it is successful.

    GREAT WORK! Thanks for sharing. :)