Everybody else is doing it...

[Coy]

It is really incredible that it's done in vector. It must be a lot of work there. You should write some kind of tutorial for us when it's finished to teach us how to work with all those details.

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it's really easy, actually - no special technique. I just make a bunch of basic round / 90% round brush tips and draw like I normally would if I were using a pen set. When I link it displays a lot more blurry then it is...it's a lot more crisp on screen. Is should silk screen pretty well.

so it's mor like alot of lines, then completed segments? How do you color it? in photoshop- or just leaving it black&white.

[jecrt]

so it's mor like alot of lines, then completed segments? How do you color it? in photoshop- or just leaving it black&white.

yeah - it's abut 97% linework - the larger fills are objects. I usually work one color at a time (since most of the stuff I do is eventually screen printed) After I get the linework finalized, I save a copy as is ("live"). Then I convert all of my lines to shapes and merge those shapes to make one big shape. I usually do each of the colors on separate layers in Illustrator.

I worked on it some more and finished up the primary linework. I'm planning on filling in the gaps with solid color and then adding some more linework as a halftone - so it's shadowed.

or not. we'll see what happens.

[Coy]

That look great..
Thanks for answering the question. This opens up alot of my other drawings now. Since alot of drawings are open lines w/ no real start or finish (like a shape would be) I've found it difficult to transfer some of those same looks to illustrator. also seeing the start and (mostly) finished work.

[resurepus]

Jecrt, it looks awesome already! I am definitely following this thread to see how the project will develop.

[jecrt]

Jecrt, it looks awesome already! I am definitely following this thread to see how the project will develop.

thanks sergey!

[samuels]

wow nice , man u did amazing job keep it up.

[geek]

This would be very nice to add realistic coloring in photoshop. But 2D vector is STUNNING indeed.

[oxynite]

how long did the vectoring take?

[jecrt]

hey guys - I've been absent for quite some time...hopefully I'll be around more. I did get some time to finish up the art on this one, though. Now I just need to do the colorfill work, but that ususally goes pretty quick!

the resizing makes it look a little fuzzy - it's actually very sharp.

[tsmith]

very sweet! reminds me of Conceptart.org there's some amazing artists over there u should check it out

aweeeeeeesome link! can't believe i didnt know about this. im having a field day looking at all the amazing sketches there. this should distract me for a good 2 hours.

[AlottaDots]

I just saw this and all i can say is.. AMAZING! But now i am getting greedy and want to see more!

[madelikethis]

it's really easy, actually - no special technique. I just make a bunch of basic round / 90% round brush tips and draw like I normally would if I were using a pen set. When I link it displays a lot more blurry then it is...it's a lot more crisp on screen. Is should silk screen pretty well.

Do you use a tablet?

[deleted member]

very cool. It's come a long way since the last time I looked

[jecrt]

Do you use a tablet?

yep - I've been using a tablet only for the last 11 years - can't go back to a mouse!

Here's the finished - 4 spot colors. I'll probably go back later and do a color version, but I decided on this monotone gray image for now.

[tsmith]

that rocks man.

[Coy]

I think I'd leave it like it is. Color isn't always necessary. ;d
This turned out absoluly brillant. great image

[Riley Gombart]

First of all, I'd like to say that looks absolutely amazing. One thing I noticed however that some parts of the piece seem to be pillow-shaded and don't actually look natural to the lighting. One example I can point out is the dude just to the upper left of the VERY bottom dead guy.

It still looks awesome though. Keep up the amazing work!

-Riley

[geek]

This will look great in black and red. Nice work man.

[nandavanan]

This looks great!

[tyleronline]

Wow great job! This would look awesome as a screen printed poster.