Rainbow Polygon Ani

Rainbow Polygon Ani

This is by far my favorite piece of digital art I’ve ever created. Ani is my main character that I use for personal drawings, so I wanted to try a different way of depicting him. The end result was a giant headshot formed from polygonal stain-glass looking panels of all sorts of pastel colors. This was originally intended to be an album cover for a song I made called “Plastic Planet,” so I did end up using it for that, but it just looks so phenomenal on its own that I think I may use it as a logo in the future. The geometry looks as though it is actually a 3D image and it only took me about 4 hours to put together in Firealpaca. I ended up getting a poster of it and hanging it in my room too.

Vector Tracing Project – Boring Town

Boring Town – Based off a photograph I took in town

The assignment for my Design for Media II class was to take an image and trace over it using vector lines in Adobe Illustrator, grayscale only. It was originally intended to use a film still, but since I haven’t seen many movies lately, I showed my sample image to my professor and he okayed it. The shot itself was taken for my photography class too, and I found it to be interesting compositionally, with the three foreground poles segmenting the image into thirds. I put the most detail in contrast in the foreground and reduced them both for the mid ground and background components.

Tracing the details of the vehicle was rather time consuming, so my solution was to give a rough outline of an individual car with some basic shading and copy and paste it three times to fit with the melancholy theme. Many of the background details are omitted as well, helping to give that sort of flat and faceless feel to the building.