From You Work For Them. This is from a set of cityscapes in vector form, including skyscrapers, overhead views and street layouts. As a fan of big cities and illustration, these are right down my alley. I like how hand-done they appear to be, while they can be resized, of course, and blown up big and the colors can be adjusted.
As a former skateboarder, I love these graphics designed by Emil Kozak, a designer from Denmark. As you can tell, I prefer flatter artwork and silhouettes, not the 3-d stuff as much... (go print!)
I do like some 3-d stuff; this work is by a Russian artist, Maria (last name I couldn't find). Though some of her work borders on cheesy sci-fi/fantasy novel covers, there is also much that is really impressive and moving. The difference between this style and the flatter styles in the previous examples shows the wide range of work that can be produced using vectors in Illustrator.
2 comments:
Yay print!!
And while I continue to lobby for this kind of art, I'd have to say that the skateboard images aren't at all "flat." Yeah they might not be rendered to purposefully look dimensional but the images themselves have depth. There are at least three different grounds in all of them and a great use of interesting shapes to give movement.
I can't remember which one but there's a class at the Corcoran where you get an actual skateboard produced. Why do I want to say it's a core class though??
well, by flat I meant they weren't using gradients to "round" out the images 3-d style, but you're right there is a depth to it so flat really isn't the right descriptor.
Yeah I've seen some skateboards designed in some classes but I'm not sure which it was, I saw some exhibited last semester. Probably was core.
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