Acid + Base

November 4, 2009 · 1 Comment · Tags: Freebies, Illustrations, Process

My contribution for Horizons – my college’s publication for illustrations. This year’s theme is opposites.

I wanted to work with a deeper concept but I couldn’t translate whatever I had in mind into a composition. I went for a failsafe idea which I planned early on incase it had come to this. The deadline was getting nearer and I had other homework.

I’m still happy with how this illustration turned out anyway. It’s a simple idea inspired by colors and fashion style. Nice excuse to draw girls in funky outfits – my guilty pleasure.

Here are some process pics

Since they share the same body structure with a few variations, I drew the basic body structure first then the variations on a different paper. I assembled their initial pose in Photoshop then sketched their clothes on.

Exported the sketch to Illustrator and worked on the lineart. This involves arranging the layers for the intertwined arms.

Switched the white with a color from the swatches and remove the black outline.

Added the gradients, shading and textures.

Then a simple background! Bam! Done!
Have some wallpapers!

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