Avatar in progress ...

Posted 25 February 2008 - 12:17 PM

Hi everybody, I wanted to share this artwork with you. This is an avatar I adopted for myself for about 9 years by now ... the original illustration is not mine, for those who have played Fallout 2 may recognize the character.

And now I´m doing a new version of it but with cooler look. I´m still working on it, but I want to share it with you and hear some oppinions on how do you see it and get some advice.

This is my 9 year old avatar (Photoshop):



New in progress (Illustrator):

"It´s better to die for something ... than to live for nothing!"

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Posted 25 February 2008 - 12:42 PM

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Posted 26 February 2008 - 01:16 AM

very neat gradient mesh... bang..bang.. bang... does tommygun sounds like that???? hehehe..

Yeap ... sound pretty much like that!

Well my name is "Tommy", and that's the nexus that ties me to the nickname and to the so called "Tommy gun" the character is actually holding very pround in his hands ...

"It´s better to die for something ... than to live for nothing!"

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Posted 28 February 2008 - 08:33 PM

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Posted 29 February 2008 - 11:42 AM

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Posted 29 February 2008 - 01:11 PM

Deavas:

This kind of illustrating is called "gradient meshing". Its baed on the gradient mesh tool in Illustrator, with it you can do realistic looking gradient shapes and manipulateit as you like. Just google for this and you will find lots of cool stuff done with this tool, really photorealistic drawings ... (and not crap like mine!) hahaha

"It´s better to die for something ... than to live for nothing!"

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Posted 29 February 2008 - 01:58 PM

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Posted 01 March 2008 - 01:51 AM

You should add smoke coming out of the gun, just like he had fired it.

Had really never thought about that... hehe, thanks!

Maybe its more a kind of friendly gangsta' ... he would never have to shoot anybody ... (would he?) xD

"It´s better to die for something ... than to live for nothing!"

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Posted 07 April 2008 - 08:51 PM

yeah its cool, and the smoke idea sounds really cool, i like it... nice job

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Posted 07 April 2008 - 09:14 PM

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