Special Edition Blog -Shoes

My final illustration from our first project turned out much better than the previous drafts. It took some time and effort but in the end I found it to be much more pleasing to the eye.

Craft, Concept & Composition

Using Adobe Illustrator, I created a tabloid sized illustration and inserted my original photograph. The photograph concisted of a black and white floral background, with red high heels placed on top.

I positioned the shoes in a certain way to show off the leopard print and gold buckles, I also positioned them to shoe off important parts of the background to shoe that it is a flower.

After placing my objects just so, i began to trace my illustration. Using the pen tool i traced the entire rectangle and filled it in with black. I made it invisible and continued on to trace the white base of my flower, which took up 90% of the page. Then i continued on and created shades of gray and black to fill in details on the flower.

Once the flower was completed i moved on to the most time consuming piece of my illustration. I traced the whole outside shape of thebottome shoe and then did the same with the second shoe. Both were filled in with red. The details were next to be completed, starting with the heals. I chose to use a beige color with a texure to shoe the rugged-ness. The shading of the shoe was next, which i was a gradient of red, dark red and white. There was also a bright white glare that came from the lights in the room that also needed to be shown. For that i created new shapes and new graients within them, mostly with ahite and light reds.

The insides of shoes were even more time consuming. the sole of the shoes were a goldish color that also needed a gradient between gold, white and brown. The leopard print was made using the pen tool as well, just recreating the different shapes and using shades of brown, gold and black. And lastly, the gold buckles were made with the pen tool and gold and white shading.

The point of my illustration was to show of a shoe that i found to be a typical “girly-girl” shoe. There are even songs that talk about a girl’s red high heels. I found the floral background to fit in with my “girly” them. The leopard print also added a fad that is common among girls.

"Unfinished Painting"
After creating such an elaborate illustration, i recreated it using a totally different style. The color scale used was nothing like the original. And the brush library as well. For this illustration, i learned how to use new tools, such as appearance, graphic style, and libraries.

Craft:

For this illustration, i used different tools from the brush library which created thick and light brush strokes. I used earth tone colors, which i found to be soft and flowing.

Composition:

I didnt really compose the earth tone colors in any such away. I just played around with the tools until i found something i really liked.

Concept:

With this being the first alternative illustration, i spent quite a bit of time just playing around with the newly learned tools. When it got to a certain point, i decided i wanted to continue and make it look like a painting. The earth tone colors are something that would be included at a painting in my own home, which was what brought me to choose them. The thick brush strokes caught my eye because it made the illustration look like something i could have possibly painted.