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This couch, part of my most recent pinup (and originally intended ONLY to be a background piece, something for the subject to sit on) ended up being the most difficult and intricate thing I've done in vector yet. I am in dire need of upgrading my computer, because while this piece was saving I had time to make a sandwich and say a silent prayer that my PC didn't catch fire.

213,337 points and way more time altering minute details than I truly care to think about. I think the wood grain alone took me three hours to get just the color and grain I liked (using a tutorial I found through Google). If that amount of work doesn't deserve its own deviantart submission, nothing I've done so far does.

Illustrator CS5, comments welcome!

EDIT: for those interested, here's the wood grain tutorial video I spoke about: [link] . I made a few small changes in the technique and tweaked some color settings to get the result seen here, but check it out, it's extremely useful.

Description
This couch, part of my most recent pinup (and originally intended ONLY to be a background piece, something for the subject to sit on) ended up being the most difficult and intricate thing I've done in vector yet. I am in dire need of upgrading my computer, because while this piece was saving I had time to make a sandwich and say a silent prayer that my PC didn't catch fire.

213,337 points and way more time altering minute details than I truly care to think about. I think the wood grain alone took me three hours to get just the color and grain I liked (using a tutorial I found through Google). If that amount of work doesn't deserve its own deviantart submission, nothing I've done so far does.

Illustrator CS5, comments welcome!

EDIT: for those interested, here's the wood grain tutorial video I spoke about: [link] . I made a few small changes in the technique and tweaked some color settings to get the result seen here, but check it out, it's extremely useful.