And spacesick, you'll be happy to know that all the characters on the new website splash move on mouseovers, its fun to play with.

so im learnin illustrator, and man i hate it. Granted i work in photo shop to color stuff so thats prob part of it. but illustrator makes me feel dumb so fast. Hats off to great work in illustrator

ha! that's beautiful man. I don't think I hate gradients any more.

make sure you let us know when the new mother's up, or else I'll take my name off the rockslide fanlisting.

dang... i'm impressed. doesn't 2-4 bucket gradients make the file HUGE? i really like your style.

holy crapola thats awesome! i just lost all faith in myself in trying to learn illustrator...ill never be that good!

yeah this is so gooood! i don't understand illustrator at all and i'm quite afraid of it actually.

Gradients are our friends. As long as a single gradient doesn't take up over 20% of a single image, you know like in the 80's when they invented super-gradients. They also invented neon and the little band that could, Menudo.

They best way to handle illustrator is to think of working in it like you would with a big box of construction paper. How would you make a picture out of construction paper? Only the construction paper is magic. Kinda like neon and Menudo.

Teach me Obi-wan, show me the ways of the force!!





uh.... please?

the only thing i understood in that was menudo, the band

What are 2-4 bucket gradients?

I'll keep that in mind Rocky

ahaha

I'll have to setup a tutorial section on my website. That might be helpful to some.

Basically I start out with a sketch, wait- maybe I'll upload the sketch so y'alls can see it. It was just simple and quick.

Then I use the pencil tool (I have a Wacom Tablet) and I draw in the basic outline of shapes. I keep the head outlines on one layer, hands on another layer and so on. This keeps the parts of the image separate and easy to later move and manipulate.

Then I switch the outlined shapes to filled shapes with gradients.

Then I start adding details and smaller fine tuning shapes on top. Sometimes I adjust their transparency too and build multiple transparent shapes on top of eachother.

Do all that for about ten hours and it will look just like this!

oh yes! thanks for the tutorial, sucker!

now I'm off to make millions.

nice man, im impressed, I cant do shit in illustrator

great job up there Rocky!!
you are a colours' master!...great, great lights/shadows effects.
congrats dude!

its incredible!

thats great!

great colors as well

I'm planning on doing each of the 12 Chinese years/Zodiac animals in samurai garb.

how long did he take? looks like a lot of hours.

$5

It probably took...ten hours I'm guessing.

I use the wacom tablet a lot and that saves a ton of time. I'm making a deconstructed face so people can see how I do it, all the shapes that make up the head.

wow... all 12 zodiac animals. can't wait to see them all.

that's so cool. i like your profile picture too.

are 2-4 bucket gradients harder or easier to use than gradient meshes? i only know how to use the latter.

Holy crap I have a lot to learn about illustrator. I had no idea you could make stuff like that. Awesome.

there's the busted out shapes version, kinda like a tutorial on how I do it. I hope that helps a bit.

....*stares in awwwwe*


holy crapa crapa!

i love you man

whoa that kinda looks like the Lawnmower Man movie, haha.

sonmi- the simple gradient buckets are much easier to use

Awesome work. But as a screenprinter, I cringe at the site of gradients. Give me spot color or give me death!

illustrator is daunting, to say the least. I've just begun learning it and I see a long road ahead of me, but I can't give up. Seeing awesome work like this only inspires me!

you have serious skills!

sweet!

new Junior's Giants work I just finished today

nicos left hand looks a bit backwards, but everything else is totally sweet. the exploded monkey is every bit as daunting as i expected.

my latest vector effort:
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/deadartist/design/sin9.jpg

d3d that is crazy! it reminds me of Bedazzled. Was it for a liquor company?

kinda, it's for a Service Industry Night (sin) at a bar called the Thirsty Turtle.

it's going to be a 7 foot tall freestanding cardboard cutout

oh, and during the process the client asked me twice to make the breasts bigger and the bikini bottom smaller.

those are some amazingly sweet (vector) breasts!