then call me back!

then make some more tree animal vagina faces!

i tried earlier but your mom said you were in the bath!

ps. call me back

lollerbutts

long distance to canada isn't covered on my verizon plan :((((

just ask stefan for my skype!

I'm angry at myself for my terrible procrastination.

don't be angry

i need to vectorize this project pronto,
not really but i will work on it soon. minus the glitz
of stars which i just added to cheer me up.

Anything in particular we could help with? Or is it more of a general frustration.....

What version of illustrator are you working with?

cs3. and it really is just everything and very general so i would feel too annoying to start asking yet but i will once my problems start getting a little more focused. i just have to buckle down and read a dozen tutorials. i'm not exaggerating when i say i can't do a thing in that program. it's why most of my designs are simulated process :(

I can walk you through tracing your line work if you want. It's really pretty simple with CS3 if you have clean line work (preferably black and white). From there on out you can use illustrator with the same principles as photoshop...minue worrying about the resolution.

I would strongly suggest just taking a big chunk out of your day one day and just sitting down and playing with it. Just try different tools and make mistakes and do crazy shizz until you start feeling comforable and like you are learning some stuff. . .
but you probably already thought of that maybe :/

Also it will make your life easier if you have all the different colored elements as separate black and white line work. For instance in your design above the red would all be one file and the blue would be another one.

that thing is beautiful!

+what olie said

+you can axe me anything, but in private so it doesn't look like I'm nice to everyone

i have olie but i'm quite lazy but i will. this week. i have to because i'm getting tired of working designs out in photoshop and not having them look as clean as i want them to.
ps. i can do live-tracing pretty okay without any problems, it's afterwards i can't do. filling in my linework/halftone gradients/add texture/working the pen tool well enough - stuff i just have to practice with i guess, especially the pen shit.

i will be back to beg for help though when i'm not too tired/frustrated to receive it.
i just needed to complain a bit.

i sent you a private email already spacesick and i'm trying to limit it to one a night so i'll probably hit you again tomorrow.

a non-physical hit i mean, well maybe a little smack but a friendly one.

at least you have a tablet. That is KEY. Feel free to shoot me an email if there's something particularly of frustration.

oh snap! I didn't see that. I'm on it, cap'n.

*rubs arm*

oh, i don't have a tablet :(
i keep thinking of getting one but i haven't really shopped around. i should probably consider it a bit harder.

Oh...the pen tool. I read that wrong. It does help out a crap load. Without it I would try to draw everything out and scan it in to live trace and assemble so your'e not trying to draw with your mouse....that's a bummer.

I actually don't like using my tablet in illustrator, I think it's easier to just use a mouse but maybe that's just me

I apologize for this in advance but seriously every time I read the blog title I say to myself "Me so horny."

I hope saying this will get it out of my system.

i just really hurt my head. if you cross your eyes and focus on the image that appears between the pair of gears they go all 3-d


i made it prettier and now i feel dizzy and i'm going to bed.

That is freakin AWESOME!

I share your frustration gg. I don't have illustrator but my brother Eric does and it totally mystifies me. It doesn't seem intuitive at all. At least I could figure stuff out on photoshop on my own, but illustrator is really intimidating. Shame, because I'd love to be able to vectorize some of my work. I should just take some courses on it.

Oh, awesome illustration btw, love it :)

wow, you posted awesome cogs while I was typing too!

bro. chill.
thats nothing. ok?
like. there are kids in africa who dont have illustrator.

^ olie are you my doppleganger? I too use a mouse and never a tablet. I can draw with real pens and pencils..and the mouse. Let's be dopplegangers olie.