Friday, July 08, 2011

Illustration Friday - Remedy


My entry for last week's Illustration Friday topic - Remedy.

When I think of a 'remedy' I think of hot tea with honey and lemon.  My Mom used to make me tea and toast when I was sick as a kid.  With lots of sugar and milk.  I loved dunking the toast into the tea and eating it all squishy and buttery.

I also had a friend in Kentucky whose grandmother would give her a teaspoon of white raisins soaked in gin for just about anything that ailed her.  Not sure what the medicinal qualities of that one are...but she said it worked great.

I plan to color this one in Photoshop and I'll post the images when I get them finished.  Just wanted to post this one before it was too awfully late!

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

TZT Performance Logo Project

I recently completed a fun project for a friend's son - vectorizing a logo for his new performance car biz!  So in this blog I'll show you how it evolved and what the end result was!

First, I received the jpg file of the logo:
Which I then imported into Illustrator.  Placing it into the background, I made a new layer and traced the outlines to make a vector image.  Then I colored it.  I played around with the colors and gradients and gave him several options to choose from:


He didn't bite on any of the changes, preferring the original logo and colors so I played around with values, gradients, and flipping the colors around.