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i understood before i read the title thats way chill dude
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cool. 
btw, do you use adobe illustrator?
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Thanks. Sure, go ahead; I use my stuff as my backdrop all the time, and this one's done duty for that.
I use pretty much nothing but Illustrator.
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okay then. 
i see. how long have you been using it? 
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According to the file dates on my computer, my first .AI file was last touched on October 27, 1999, at 1:25 in the morning. It's not around on the net, and the earliest of my pieces available here is my third one , from late November of that year. (DA's file dates are wrong, as Feb03 is when I started a gallery here and uploaded a smattering of older stuff.) It wasn't until a year later that I felt confident enough to ditch outlines; most of my early AI work, except for this one, relied on scanned inks.
Sure, try it! It's like any other medium - it has its strengths and its weaknesses, and its own particular best workflows to figure out. Its strengths fit well with mine; I was drawn to expanses of flat color long before I had AI. You can do lots of modelling in vector work; some people do some really complex photo-real stuff, but I always feel like it's exactly what the medium's not for, like trying to use charcoal for technical precision...
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wow... o.O you sure have been using AI for a long time! and i thought that your third piece was pretty good.
thanks for the encouragement, i think i really might try it, it's an interesting alternative to simply drawing with the brush tool in photoshop. i like your style of vector art, by the way. i feel it really does bring out the beauty of vectoring. i've had no experience in it personally, though, and i plan to source around for tutorials and explore illustrator on my own for a bit.
thank you for sharing, i'm glad that you gave such an in depth reply!
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reminds me of kiriku and the sorceress (animation by michel ocelot 
i wonder if you've seen it?
anyways, your work is lovely.
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No, never heard of it... this is mostly inspired by the half-remembered work of illustrator Hilary Knight, and me being a tentacle fetishist.
thanks!
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how do you get that cool fading color effecting using vectors?
sorry, im a noob
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Gradient mesh, and transparancy.
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I love all the tentacles! I saw the big one first,and then slowly I realized how many there were--all the different shapes and sizes. I particularly like the colors in this as well.
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mmm, crazy idea with so many different tentacles. And very nice.
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mmm lovecraft 
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Though it's less than your past works in colors,it's more in details!
Awsome art style you have |peganthyrus|
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interesting, would make a cool bg. nice design.
~KO
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I'm wallpapering this one, oh yeah.
Reminds me of something straight out of HP Lovecraft, a scene filled with unnamed horrors that man was meant never to witness. Horrid leviathans of aeons past that would drive a person mad were they to ever realize how ancient and terrible these spectral creatures are.
...Yeah, tentacles are cool.
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Very cryptic - again, your composition really draws the viewer in, the contrast between detail and non is very effective - jarring, but not offensively so. And yes, tentacles are love. *scalp love*
Wish I could give a more interesting comment, but I can't. Oh well. ^_^;
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