January 31, 2006

Illustration Friday: Glamour


Here's an illustration I tried out for the 'glamour' of Illustration Friday. To be honest I haven't fully illustrated in a long time so I see many flaws... but nevertheless (did I spell that right) I tried to do the best I could at the moment. I used a cover of 'Cosmopolitan' as inspiration. :) Thanks for stopping by! * Hugs *

15 comments:

Ginger*:) said...

Really neat! I like the various textures, and the compostion as much as your artwork.

Jamel said...
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Edward Pun said...

I like it. You did a great job!!

Jamel said...

Nice work, you're hired!

Mary said...

cool! I like the textures too. That adds a nice quality to it. You go Luna :)

Ellen said...

Great job! I like this a lot.

Square One said...

nice style and textural feel to your work.

Sandra Romero said...

Nice illustration and very amuseing blog!

Mrs. Maria said...

Thanks everyone for the kind words and compliments. Fashion Flaw - I am going to try and commit to doing this every Friday. It was intoxicating in a good way to set time aside to do this. :) Again thanks for stopping by everyone!

Unknown said...

Dang, Davpunk beat me to it!

Dave

Jeope said...

I often use Cosmopolitan for "research", too.

OK, snide remarks aside - this looks really cool. The work on the background is amazing - how was it made?

Mrs. Maria said...

I don't want to sound like a pervert lol but I knew her "chest" was perfect when I accidentally deleted her shirt and it felt as if I had undressed her.

I had a real hard time with relaxing her pose (Rx: Draw more). I had a real hard time with her darn hands. (Rx: Draw more.) LOL

Jeope the texture was created in illustrator and photoshop. I created a red-blue-white gradient in 'triangular' like shapes. There are some ray like patterns behind the woman. I created them by drawing an oval and applying a distort filter: zigzag.

Then I took it into photoshop were I layered the illustration. I added some of (shhh! kbowmans brushes) then I added a little bit of 'noise' to get rid of the 'illustrator sharpness'.

Did I say thank you for asking, if not... thank you for asking. :)

Mrs. Maria said...

Dave minds "think a like"

LOL

Jeope said...

There's no shame in using Keith's handiwork. I finally realized this when he emailed me after I finished my Christmas book - I thought he was gonna razz me about royalties, on account of me using them to death. But he was quite insistent that it's OK to use them, nice chap that he is.

Anonymous said...

Very prominent silicone installments. Good work!