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grypesagon
grypesagon aka Griffin is a 32.47 year old boy, has been a member since January 29, 2007, has scored 2,298 submissions, giving an average score of 1.82, helping 38 designs get printed.
URL: http://www.shadedareas.com
AIM: grypesagon
I need help with my technique.
If you look through my past submissions you'll see I've experimented with a wide variety of techniques for trying to work within threadless' color limitations.

I've tried freehand, pen tool, draw/scan/color, draw/color/scan, illustrator, photoshop, painter. I've tried everything I can think of. I'm missing some fundamental component that I can't kin.



That's my original digital illustration for this concept.


http://www.threadless.com/critique/6459/Celestial_Surgery

This is my new attempt at a translation into Threadless acceptable format.

grypesagon
grypesagon on Aug 02 '07 at 1:13am
bump
grypesagon
grypesagon on Aug 02 '07 at 8:40am
biggety bump?
grypesagon
grypesagon on Aug 02 '07 at 10:06am
sigh
grypesagon
grypesagon on Aug 02 '07 at 10:26am
once again
fatheed
   fatheed on Aug 02 '07 at 10:28am
I like the original, but it's lost in translation. You haven't recaptured the detail of the first one and it's hard to make out whats going on.
grypesagon
grypesagon on Aug 02 '07 at 10:30am
Any ideas on how to recapture the detail? Is there something I could do that I'm not doing?
sectionbb
sectionbb on Aug 02 '07 at 10:37am
add a 5th color?
canadianbeaver
canadianbeaver on Aug 02 '07 at 10:38am
I am afraid I do not understand what is going on in this illustration.
grypesagon
grypesagon on Aug 02 '07 at 10:44am
I'm not expecting anyone to follow the story. I need to revise my TECHNIQUE. I have a level of aptitude when it comes to drawing, painting, digital illustration, design. However I seem to lack the ability to create something aesthetically pleasing when my colors are so drastically limited. I'm not grasping some idea or function or technique. I need help with that. I chose an image that won't make any sense to people so I could get people to focus on the aesthetic alone.
canadianbeaver
canadianbeaver on Aug 02 '07 at 10:58am
I said the way to do better with the illustration is to better master the tools in photoshop. The layering of hand filled page scans is crude and inaccurate.



What you could also do is try and introduce patterns, by taking the layers into single documents, black, apply filters to them and make them more sensitive so they are not flat.



Then, put them back in and color them.



This is what I have done here...



Reverse Psychology - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever



And so the bricks have some texture and dimension. I am no photoshop genius, so you can do it.
grypesagon
grypesagon on Aug 02 '07 at 11:06am
I thought there was some sort of print issue with that level of detail?
grypesagon
grypesagon on Aug 02 '07 at 11:07am
KBS - Thanks. I'll have to reflect on those points.
7 days later
grypesagon
grypesagon on Aug 09 '07 at 3:10pm
update bump
pyr4lis
pyr4lis on Aug 09 '07 at 3:55pm
well in the revised threadless sub there are two things that look weird because they're missing... #1 is there is no "Sky" in the threadless version.. #2 your little dinosaur seems to be missing his teeth :P (his lack of arms is alot more noticable in the threadless version that in your original)



I'm not sure how to fix it though! I have similar problems where I sketch something out and finish it in a non-digital medium (ie: paint) then when I try to translate it to a threadless design I always fall flat on my face.
2 days later
grypesagon
grypesagon on Aug 12 '07 at 2:34pm
good point. I didn't realize i forgot the teeth. Hmmm. I already subbed this though. I'll have to keep better tabs in the future.
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I’m am illustrator. Plain and simple. Both analog and digital.

I'm autodidacticly polymathic (look it up). As a result I tend to keep very busy. At any given point I have a number of active hobbies, studies and projects. I like learning about people, studying the combinations of patterns that make each person who they are. I like understanding how things work.