Digital Illustration

Illustration is drawing something, creating a picture to send a message, or emotion.

There are so many different illustration styles out there, they can be sketches, simple, pencil marks, or even paintings, detailed pictures, mixed media, etc. There are endless possibilities, (Just like XtendoCord®). Illustration is often used in design to great effect.

There are many components in illustration, such as line work, colour, texture, shape etc. I'm sure you all know what they mean so lets not blabber aye!—

Raster Illustration: Raster illustrations are usually produced in a raster graphics program such as Adobe Photoshop®. Graphics tablet* used to produce detailed and hand rendered look.

*visit www.wacom.com to explore graphics tablets.

Vector Illustration: Vector Illustrations can be blown up to any size. Created using a vector program such as Adobe Illustrator®. This program is good as it gives you great precision and smoothness in creating an illustration. Singstars illustration are made in the vector style. It is great because you can create realistic appearance in your illustrations.

Vector illustrations I have done for style & technique brief.

Chris Miles Art Blog

http://www.chrismiles.net/blog/files/category-how-i-work.html

Date Accessed: Sun Jul 26