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Dancing ChickensSlot machine design characters. Printed on plexiglass, created in Illustrator CS with mouse using pen and pencil tools
Part of a much bigger piece.
Pencils by Dean Yeagle. [link]
Digital inking, and colors by me
Copyright 2007 VGT www.vgt.net
Let me know what you think!
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I love their expressions XD Great fluid poses too!
I do have a question for ya..in illustrator CS2 is it possible to do a color gradient? I've only been able to figure out how to do B&W gradient
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Yes, under window, open your gradient pallet, and your swatches pallet. Create the colors you want to use in your gradient and drag them into your swatches pallet to save them, or you can use default colors. With your object selected, click on the b & w gradient, your object will fill with the gradient. Next, drag any color you want into the smaller boxes representing white or black in your gradient pallet. The color in your object will change, now do the same with a different color in the other small box. You can add as many colors to the gradient as you want, just drag colors from your swatches pallet to the gradient slider. You can adjust where the "break" is on the gradient too by adjusting the small triangles right or left. Use the gradient tool to control how the gradient is applied to your object, ie. which direction the gradient goes. Once you have a gradient you nkow you will use again, drag the gradient back into the swatches pallet to save it, or use your color sampler to apply it to other objects. There are other ways to fill objects with shaped gradients, using the gradient mesh, or by blending colors between lines, but the linear and radial gradients work for almost everything.
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thank you so much! that was a great help!
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nice shading... I am trying to figure out if you made the lines first and then shaded it... 
Looks goo regardless... btw don't mind me I'm just trying to pick your brain
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I do the linework first, until I end up with something like this, [link] then color. I do everything on one layer for each character, but you can create another layer underneath the linework to create colors. This works well if your coloring in Photoshop, as you can bleed the edges so you have good color trapping and registration. I use Illustrator though, which is the same process, except you fill it with a solid color or gradient, instead of painting, like in Photoshop. I like to do it this way because vector art is not resolution dependent, so it can be sized without loss of clarity. I have to do this because most of my art has to be able to print on multiple substrates, from printed brochures to large overhead signage.
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Yea I understand the use of vector in your field 
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I make another object that traps halfway into the outline. When you create color separations for screen printing, the printers like as much trap as you can give them. There are quicker ways of doing this by using a line, instead of drawing the outlines, but that will not give you the hand drawn look, as all your outlines will be uniform.
For offset printing, I use a "process" black, and concentrate more on bleeding edges than anything else.
In any case, its all about trying to trap halfway into your line. If your piece will not be printed, this is less important. However, it is always a good idea to at least use a rich black (100% of all colors, CMYK), as they will view much better. (Assuming your coloring in CMYK). I am working on a tutorial on this process, keep your eyes peeled!
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Yea I learned about CYMK the hard way... 
Thanks for explaining I cannot wait to see your tutorial!
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Its called, trap, or bleed, or creep. Don't ask why that couldn't be streamlined,
I can't tell you how many times I get files that are created in RGB, and having to explain why there is color shift when they are converted to CMYK. Another huge problem I have is people not converting type to outlines before sending a file!
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Ha ha ha I know what you mean... the other thing that I hated the most was trying to explain to them that PowerPoint is not meant to make art... they get rather flustered when I tell them that I cannot print their crappy power point file into a poster
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hey that looks like me when i try to dance lmao oh wait a minute id look like a chicken with its head cut off LMAO i like this hun good job on it like always
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Im sure its not that bad!!!
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LOL wanna bet hehe... ok so i may just have 2 left feet when i dance... well at the moment i just have one foot capable of dancing i was careless when taking out the damn trash and broke my right one LMAO
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Thank You for looking!!!
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