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Sunday, January 15, 2006

Illustration Friday: Skyline


I live close to San Francisco. Here is something I drew using the latest version of Illustrator. It's new for me because I tried to get rid of the "cartoony" black lines that I usually put into my finished drawings. Thanks Joann Denning, my multimedia teacher, for introducing me to this new medium.


Here's the finished artwork on the CD cover for "I left my heart in San Francisco".


And for another assignment ... a book for Rip Van Winkle.

9 comments:

HARDWAX said...

beautiful and dynamic.

Stacia said...

Very nice - lots of depth.

Anonymous said...

I really like the bold blocks of color and the fact that you did not use a black outline! It makes this beautiful piece very realistic looking with the shadows in colors!

franhilz said...

niiiiice!
very elegant and clean, but warm at the sae time
you have a point here!

claudine hellmuth said...

beautiful!! And you were first!

Vern Mercado said...

thanks claudine,

but it was something that I posted in the past. i didn't get much comments on it when I submitted it the first time so now here was my chance. maybe i'll do another one for this week.

mel said...

beautiful and it makes me want to go visit the bay area again :)

Unknown said...

Very interesting your fresh style. Certainly, Illustrator is a powerfull tool maybe the most. Your drawing is great because is so dificult obtain the illusion of perspective in the way that you do, with few color.
Good luck with adobe illustrator.

Anonymous said...

I love Illustrator - this is a fantastic illo for someone new to the program! Great vector, lovely illo.